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UMBC AgentNews v6n1 Mon Jan 1 11:12:23 2001
The past eleven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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20th FIPA meeting 1/29-2/2 Phoenix -- The 20th meeting of the FIPA
software agents standards group will be held in Phoenix, USA from 29
January to 2 February, 2001. The quarterly FIPA meetings are free and
open to FIPA members and interested non-members who are willing to
actively contribute to the FIPA process. More information on how to
participate in FIPA can be found at http://fipa.org/. (12/11)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fipa.org/activities/nextmeeting.html
Space ANTS: Futuristic Probes to Cruise Asteroid Belt -- A small group
working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed launching a
massive colony of miniature spacecraft - using social insect-inspired
artificial intelligence - to spend several years prospecting among
perhaps 1,000 of the space rocks. (1/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/space_ants_001227.html
Deep Blue Monk -- This essay in Feed Magazine discusses the problem of
getting computers to improvise music and recent attempts to overcome
them, such as David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence. (12/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1534
AI Hasn't Peaked (Yet) -- A NYT article by Katie Hafner on the state
of AI. "Just what constitutes artificial intelligence has always been
a matter of some dispute. And the terms of the argument change with
each new advance in computer science." (12/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/28/technology/28ARTI.html?pagewanted=all
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TopicMaps.Org -- Topicmaps.Org is an independent consortium of parties
interested in developing the applicability of the Topic Maps Paradigm
to the World Wide Web, by leveraging the XML family of specifications
as required. (12/31)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.topicmaps.org/
Formal Ontology in Information Systems -- FOIS 2001, the second
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems,
will be held in Boston October 17-19, 2001. Electronic abstracts are
due April 11, 2001. (12/30)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fois.org/
MIT Robust Open Multi-Agent Systems (ROMA) Research Group -- The MIT
Robust Open Multi-Agent Systems (ROMA) Research Group is devoted to
learning how to develop multi-agent systems for open contexts where
the constituent agents can come from anywhere, may be buggy or even
malicious, and must run in the dynamic and potentially failure-prone
environments at hand. (12/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://ccs.mit.edu/roma/
2001 Complex Systems Summer Schools -- The Santa Fe Summer School,
administered by the Santa Fe Institute, will be held June 10 to July
7, 2001, in Santa Fe, NM at St. John's College in Santa Fe. The
Budapest Summer school will be held July 16 to August 10, 2001, at
Central European University in Budapest. Each school will be an
intensive introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical,
living, and social systems for graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows in the sciences and social sciences. Each school is open to
students and postdocs in all countries. The application deadline is
February 5, 2001. (12/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/education/csss/summerSchool01.html
Complex Adaptive Systems Demos -- Professor Robert Goldstone
(Psychology, Indiana University) has developed Macintosh simulation
software for an undergraduate course that can be used to demonstrate
how various types of complex adaptive systems adapt and evolve over
time. Three applications are stressed: chaotic growth in animal
populations; human learning, cooperation, and competition within
social groups; and the evolution of artificial life. (ACE News) (12/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/complex/
Evolutionary COmputation and Multi-Agent Systems -- Evolutionary
COmputation and Multi-Agent Systems (ECOMAS) is a workshop that will
be held on July 7, 2001 in conjunction with GECCO 2001. (12/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/gecco-2001/workshops/index.html#evolutionaryCO
SCHEMAS: Forum for Metadata Schema Designers and Implementers -- The
Schemas project, sponsored by the ECs 5th Framework Programme, aims to
provide information regarding the status and use of new and emerging
metadata standards, and to promote good practice guidelines for
adapting metadata standards for local use in customized,
implementation specific schemas. The website contains a growing list
of resources and is maintained by UKOLN. (EIPub) (12/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.schemas-forum.org/
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and
Future Directions -- This article from the December 2000 d-lib
magazine describes the new mission statement of the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative, recapitulates 2000's important milestones,
outlines activities of the 8th DCMI workshop, and summarizes the 2001
workplan. (12/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html
Brakes - A portable thread serialization mechanism for Java -- Brakes
is a way to add mobility to java threads and consists of two parts: a
ByteCode transformer which instruments Java classfiles so they are
able to capture their current internal state at any given time and a
small framework which uses the ability of the 'patched' classes to
allow Java threads to pause and resume whenever desirable. (12/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~tim/MOS/brakes.html
Guess The Dictator -- Version 2.0 of Guess the Dictator is an expert
system that attempts to identify a political dictator or television
sitcom character from answers to questions posed to you. (12/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://208.177.130.81/dictator/dictator.pl
ATAL-2001 -- The Eighth International Workshop on Agent Theories,
Architectures, and Languages will be held in Seattle, August 1-3,
2001, immediately before IJCAI-2001. This year's workshop features
two special tracks: one on "Formal Theories of Negotiation between
Agents" and one on "Agents for Hand-Held, Mobile or Embedded Devices".
(12/20) http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.atal.org/
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