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UMBC AgentNews v5n23 Sat Jul 1 21:29:03 2000

The past seven days (+-2) of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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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/

New Scientist: Global brain -- Will the web turn into a global brain,
or maybe it has already. (6/27)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_224417.html

"Thinking machine" just a first step -- MS/NBC Story in a silicon
circuit of 16 artificial neurons that communicate with one another
through artificial synapses. (6/27)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.msnbc.com/news/424454.asp

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PhD thesis, Todd Papaioannou, Loughborough University -- Todd
Papaioannou, On the Structuring of Distributed Systems: the Argument
for Mobility, PhD thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. "...In Part
I, we trace the emergence and evolution of computing abstractions and
build a philosophical argument supporting mobile code, contrasting it
with traditional distribution abstractions. Further, we assert the
belief that the abstractions used in traditional distributed systems
are flawed, and are not suited to the underlying hardware substrate on
which contemporary global networks are built. In Part II, we describe
the experimental work and subsequent evaluation that constitutes the
first steps taken to validate the arguments of Part I." (7/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.luckyspin.org/Docs/Thesis-Book.zip

Tileworld -- Tileworld developed in Lisp by Martha Pollack is ``an
abstract testbed system designed to support experimentation with agent
architectures in dynamic and unpredictable environments. The system
includes a simulated environment, an embedded agent, and a set of
routines to facilitate experimentation. The environment is a
two-dimensional grid on which are located different kinds of objects,
notably tiles, holes, obstacles and a ``gas station.'' Exogenous
events can occur in the TileWorld: specifically, objects can appear
and disappear during a simulation (7/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~pollack/distrib/tileworld.html

Reasoning About Rational Agents -- "Reasoning about Rational Agents"
by Michael Wooldridge. Published in July 2000 by The MIT Press ) as
part of the "Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents" series, ISBN
0-262-23213-8. (7/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262232138/instituteforgl07

Autonomous Agents -- The autonomous agents conference is sponsored by
ACM and has been held yearly since 1997. (7/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://autonomousagents.org/

Autonomous Agents 2001 -- The 2001 Autonomous Agents conference will
be held 29 May - 1 June 2001 in Montreal Canada with papers due early
in October 2000.. (7/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://autonomousagents.org/2001/

Dave Beckett's RDF Resources -- An excellent collection of links to
RDF documents, papers, research efforts, software, examples,
applications and related work. (6/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/

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