UMBC AgentNews v5n29                             Sun Oct  1 23:28:50 2000
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                                    It makes the hand bleed that uses it.  
                                                   -- Rabindranath Tagore

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New FIPA site and 19th FIPA meeting -- 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) (10/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fipa.org/

CFP Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems -- The Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence is calling for papers for a
special issue on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems to be
edited by Juergen Dix, Fariba Sadri, and Ken Satoh with papers due
January 31, 2001. (9/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~dix/AMAI_SPECIAL/AMAI.html


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Heterogeneous Agent Systems -- Heterogeneous Agent Systems by
V. S. Subrahmanian, Piero Bonatti, Jurgen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Fatma
Ozcan, MIT Press;, July 2000, ISBN: 0262194368. After a discussion of
the theory of software agents, this book presents IMPACT (Interactive
Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together), an experimental
agent infrastructure that translates formal theories of agency into a
functional multiagent system that can extend legacy software code and
application-specific or legacy data structures. The book describes
three sample applications: a store, a self-correcting auto-pilot, and
a supply chain. (9/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262194368/instituteforglo7

Sirma AI Ltd. -- Sirma AI, Ltd.is a Bulgaqrian research laboratory
dedicated to knowledge management and text processing (IR, IE, etc.). (9/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.sirma.bg/

Upper Cyc Ontology as MS Access DB -- Ontotext.com has encoded the Cyc
upper ontology into a MS Access database that that can be either
queried and managed via MS Access or via a standard database API.  The
database is free and can be redistributed. (9/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ontotext.com/

Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project -- Mindpixel is an attempt to
create "the world's largest database of consensus human knowledge,
constructed by tens of thousands of people just like you from all over
the world, speaking all of the world's languages.". (9/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mindpixel.com/index.php3

Metadata Introduction -- The European Schoolnet has a free Metadata
course which gives a general introduction to Metadata, its use, sense,
explaining also a Metadata tool, producing MD, but also a MD viewer. (9/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/training/sub_area_frame.cfm?sa=134

DEJIMA -- Dejima is a start up that has developed an "adaptive agent
software architecture platform" that "uses a community of simple,
independent, collaborating, adaptive message-driven components known
as agents". (9/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dejima.com/

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