UMBC AgentNews v5n 30                             Sun Oct  8 21:03:51 2000

The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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How Virtual Agents Make the Web More Human -- A CNET article on how
various kinds of virtual agents are being used in ecommerce
systems. (10/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-1544320-8-2862007-1.html

Intel Forms Peer-To-Peer Working Group -- Intel announced the
formation of an industry working group to foster standards and
protocols for peer-to-peer computing, particularly in business
environments. (10/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn082400.htm

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

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The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain -- Society can be viewed
as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the
cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals
then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e.
a "global brain". (10/8)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SUPORGLI.html

Adding formal semantics to the Web -- In this paper, we will show how
RDF Schema can be extended in such a way that a full knowledge
representation language can be expressed in it, thus enriching it with
the required additional expressivity and the semantics of this
language. We do this by describing the ontology language OIL as an
extension of RDF Schema. (10/8)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/papers/extending-rdfs.html

Web Resource Application Framework -- Wraf implements a RDF API. The
purpose is to enable the construction of applications that fully uses
the RDF data model in order to realize the Semantic Web. (10/8)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/

Meta Data Coalition -- The MetaData Coalition allies software vendors
and users with a common purpose of driving forward the definition,
implementation and ongoing evolution of a metadata interchange format
standard and its support mechanisms.  In Fall 2000 the MDC will merge
with OMG. (10/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mdcinfo.com/index.html

Web Intelligence -- The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web
Intelligence (WI'2001), Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan, October
23-26, 2001.  Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001. (10/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01/

O'Reilly Network: Peer-to-Peer Makes the Internet Interesting Again --
An article by Andy Oram of O'Reilly on the recent Peer-to-peer summit,
where people from groups as diverse as IBM and Freenet talked about
the technology's potential and limitations (10/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/22/p2psummit.html

Peer-to-Peer Working Group -- The Peer-to-Peer Working Group is a
consortium for advancement of infrastructure standards for
peer-to-peer computing. (10/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.peer-to-peerwg.org/

PPRK: Palm Pilot Robot Kit -- The Palm Pilot Robot Kit is a design for
an easy-to-build, fully autonomous robot controlled by a Palm hand-held
computer. This design was created by two CMU Robotics Institute
research groups, the Toy Robots Initiative and the Manipulation Lab,
with the intent of enabling just about anyone to start building and
programming mobile robots at a modest cost. (10/2)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~reshko/PILOT/

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