UMBC AgentNews v5n28                            Sat Sep 23 18:21:17 2000
The past five days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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                                                         -- Lord Dunsany

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FIPA News -- FIPA has redesigned its web site at www.fipa.org and has
made more of its documents and mailing lists open to non-members.  The
19th meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held in Sydney,
Australia from 16-20 October, 2000 and hosted by Motorola Labs. (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fipa.org/

GPulp Opens Up Web Searches -- The Gnutella Next Generation
development team announced on Friday that they are developing a new
open source technology for search engines.  The group believes that
"gPulp" (general Purpose Location Protocol) will eventually become the
standard search tool on every network and computing device. "GPulp
will be a ubiquitous, open, free, and powerful tool that lets users
find anything - anything! -- on any network," (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38836,00.html

CFP Kluwer MS-AS-SO series -- Book proposals are being solicited by
Kluwer Academic Publishers for their International Book Series on
Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated
Organizations. The series will include textbooks and textbook-like
volumes as well as research and application-oriented monographs. (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://wwwbrauer.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~weissg/MS-AS-SO/


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Taalee.com -- Taalee is a startup based in Athens Georgia that is
working on technologies to support semantic-based indexing and
searching of information. (9/23)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.taalee.com/index.htm

Mereware educational robotics resources -- Educational tech resource
for robotic and AI research and neural networks and more (9/23)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mereware.com/

ResponseLogic -- Responselogic provides "online personalization and
relationship marketing services" (9/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.responselogic.com/

Extreme Markup Languages -- A short article on xml.com on the GCA
Extreme Markup Languages 2000 conference held in August (9/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/09/13/extremes.html

Artificial Life -- A introduction to Artificial Life by Thomas S. Ray,
ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/fatm/

Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences -- A Web site titled
Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences (ETSS) is maintained by
Johann Peter Murmann and Joe Fleischhacker at Northwestern Univ. (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://etss.net/

Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithm Toolbox -- The Genetic and
Evolutionary Algorithm Toolbox (GEATbx) for use with Matlab is a
powerful and widely applicable optimization tool using evolutionary
algorithms. It is a fully integrated environment that runs on any
Matlab-supported platform (requires Matlab 4.2 or 5.x). (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.geatbx.com/

Ascape -- Ascape is a research tool developed at Brookings Institution
to support agent-based research. It is designed to be flexible and
powerful, but also approachable, easy to use, and expressive. A
high-level framework supports complex model design, while end-user
tools make it possible for non-programmers to explore many aspects of
model dynamics.  It is written entirely in Java and should run on any
Java-enabled platform. Models developed within it can be easily
published to the web for use with common web browsers. (9/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/models/ascape/ReadMe.html

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