UMBC AgentNews v5n31                       Sun Oct 15 18:52:38 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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DAML Ontology Schema -- DAML-ONT is a schema for representing
ontologies in RDFS that is being developed as a part of the DARPA
Agent Based Computing program.  DAML-ONT roughly corresponds to a
frame-based or description logic knowledge representation language and
allows the definition of classes and subclasses, their properties, and
a set of restrictions thereon.  The language does not yet include any
specification of explicit inference rules, which we hope will
follow. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-ont.html

ASE Special Issue on Software Engineering for Mobility -- Submissions
must be received by January 5, 2001. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/murphy/ase.html

AIBO 2.0 -- A Reuters story on Sony''s new version of it's robotic
dog, which is bother cheaper and smarter than the original. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20001012S0004

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MojoNation -- MojoNation is a new open-sourced, peer-to-peer content
sharing system that has a integrated economic model. In Mojo Nation,
every transaction costs some Mojo, and as one's Mojo credit limit is
reached, one must contribute *something* -- whether resources or cash
-- to the community. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mojonation.com/

A Comparison of Librarians and Intelligent Software Agents -- Laura
Zick, The Work of Information Mediators: A Comparison of Librarians
and Intelligent Software Agents, First Monday, v5n5, May 1, 2000. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/zick/index.html

Software Agents Take the Internet as a Shortcut to Enter Society --
Dirk Nicolas Wagner, Software Agents take the Internet as a Shortcut
to Enter Society: A Survey of New Actors to Study for Social Theory,
First Monday, v5n7, July 3, 2000 (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_7/wagner/index.html#w6

NRC - NRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship Employment -- The National Research
Council Canada's Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute
(NRC-IMTI) has an opening for a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the
area of applications of Agent and Internet technologies to intelligent
manufacturing. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://hr.nrc.ca:8080/HRB/CareerPg.nsf/GradE/NSERC

Agent-based Simulation II -- A workshop on agent-based simulations
will be held in Passau, Germany, April 2-4, 2001 (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.or.uni-passau.de/workshop2001/

EuroGP 2001 -- EuroGP2001, 4th European Conference on Genetic
Programming, 18-20 April 2001, Lake Como (Milan), Italy (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/

Semantic Web Technologies Workshop -- Unit D5 of DG 'Information
Society' of the European Commission is planning a one-and-a-half-day
workshop on 22-23 November 2000, in Luxembourg, to identify and
discuss R&D priorities related to Semantic Web Technologies for
applications in e.g. Knowledge Management, Web retrieval/navigation
and e-Commerce. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/iaf/swt_workshop.htm

MASSIVE Development Method for Multiagent Systems -- Jürgen Lind, The
MASSIVE Development Method for Multiagent Systems, In Proceedings of
the Fifth International Conference on the Practical Application of
Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents (PAAM2000), Manchester, 2000. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~lind/Lind2000b.ps.gz

MASSIVE: Software Engineering for Multiagent Systems (PhD) -- Jurgen
Lind, MASSIVE: Software Engineering for Multiagent Systems, PhD
thesis, University of the Saarland, 2000. (10/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~lind/massive.html

Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration -- UDDI is
"comprehensive, open industry initiative enabling businesses to (I)
discover each other, and (II) define how they interact over the
internet and share information in a global registry architecture.".
It's focus is on B2B ecommerce and was originally started by Ariba,
IBM, and Microsoft but now has the participation of a large number of
companies. (10/9)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://uddi.org/

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