UMBC AgentNews v5n22                              Sun Jun 25 23:53:05 2000
The past seven days (+-2) of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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18th FIPA meeting, July 17-21, Baltimore -- The 18th FIPA meeting,
which will be held 17-21 July 2000 at UMBC, is free and open to FIPA
members and interested non-members who are willing to actively
contribute to the FIPA process of developing agent technology standards.
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://agents.umbc.edu/fipa/18/

Grasshopper 2 released -- Grasshopper is a platform for mobile and
intelligent agents (in Java) with support for CORBA, OMG's MASIF and
FIPA messaging. (6/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ikv.de/products/grasshopper/downloads.html

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Weka -- Machine Learning Software in Java -- Weka is a collection of
machine learning algorithms for solving real-world data mining
problems implemented in Java at the University of Waikato (NZ) and
distributed under the GNU public license. it is described in the book
"Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with
Java Implementations" by Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank (Morgan
Kaufmann, 1999). (6/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/

Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics -- John Sowa, Ontology, Metadata,
and Semiotics, International Conference on Conceptual Structures,
ICCS'2000, 14-18 August 2000, Darmstadt, Germany. This article shows
how the fundamental semiotic primitives are represented in
semantically equivalent notations for logic, including controlled
natural languages and various computer languages. (6/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/peirce/ontometa.htm

dynamics of multiagent systems -- A set of pages highlighting work at
Xerox Parc by the Internet Ecologies group (Huberman, Hogg, et al). (6/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/groups/dynamics/www/multiagent.html

KIF draft proposed American National Standard -- This dpANS specifies
the syntax and semantics of Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) and a
syntactic variant of KIF in "infix" form. (6/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/dpans.html

Conceptual Graphs -- Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a system of logic
based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the
semantic networks of artificial intelligence. They express meaning in
a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and
computationally tractable. With a direct mapping to language,
conceptual graphs serve as an intermediate language for translating
computer-oriented formalisms to and from natural languages. With their
graphic representation, they serve as a readable, but formal design
and specification language. CGs have been implemented in a variety of
projects for information retrieval, database design, expert systems,
and natural language processing. (6/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/cg/

Process Specification Language -- PSL is an interchange format
designed to help exchange process information automatically among a
wide variety of manufacturing applications. Its core is centered
around four elements, ie: activity, activity-occurrence, timepoint,
and object.  There are axioms, functions, and relations that define
these elements and how they interact. (6/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mel.nist.gov/psl/

Workshop on Experiences with Autonomous Mobile Objects and Agent Based
Systems -- This workshop will be held in conjunction with OOPSLA --
the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages
and Applications, October 15-19 2000, at Minneapolis -- position
papers due 1 sept 2000. (6/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~tripathi/Workshop.html

Agent-Based Modeling and Behavioral Representation -- The AMBR program
is developing new approaches to simulate intelligent behavior and
applying this knowledge to enhance the modeling and simulation
capability of the Air Force. (6/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/0006/HE0009.html

OEFAI -- The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
(OEFAI) was founded in 1984 with support from the Austrian Federal
Ministry for Science and Research. Within the framework of the Federal
Development Program of the Austrian Government Microelectronics and
Information Processing the Institute was assigned key institute for
research area S7 Artificial Intelligence. (6/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/

Towards a Standardization of Multi-Agent System Frameworks -- An
article by Roberto A. Flores-Mendez in the ACM Crossroads magazine's
special issue on agents. (6/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-4/multiagent.html

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