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UMBC AgentNews v6n2 Fri Jan 12 11:04:08 2001
The past twelve days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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"Our theory posits internal mechanisms of great extent and
complexity, and endeavours to make contact between them and the
visible evidence of problem solving. That is all there is to it."
-- Newell and Simon, 1972, Human Problem Solving
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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
Tough Times for Data Robots -- A controversial 1999 decision made life
tough for spiders -- those automated search programs that periodically
crawl through Web sites extracting and copying information. Now a
federal judge has made it even easier for companies to use the law to
stop the pesky software critters. (NYT). (1/12)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/technology/12CYBERLAW.html
Palm Pilots Now Becoming Robots -- With a $300 kit available over the
Web, everyday people can turn their Palm Pilots into the brains of a
small, six-sided robot with three red wheels, equipped with infrared
sensors and rechargeable batteries. (NYT) (1/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-palm-robot-dc.html
New Age Bidding: Against Computers, Humans Usually Lose -- NYT article
on IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce and work on auction bots. (1/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/02/science/02BIDS.html
David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence. -- David Cope is a
composer and programmer who twenty year long Experiments in Musical
Intelligence (EMI) project explores the the intersection of AI and
music. (1/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/
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CFP: Internet Bots: Systems and Applications -- The International
Workshop on Internet Bots: Systems and Applications will be held in
conjunction with 12th International Conference on Database and Expert
Systems Applications (DEXA2001), September 3-7, 2001 in Munich,
Germany. The workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press (1/12)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/awkng/inbosa2001.htm
IST Semantic Web Technologies Workshop Report -- A summary of some of
the key points raised during presentations to the IST Semantic Web
Technologies Workshop held by the Information Society Directorate of
the European Commission in Luxembourg on 22nd/23rd November 2000. (1/12)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.diffuse.org/S-Web.html#agents
Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative -- This AAAI sponsored
symposium will take place Friday through Sunday, November 2-4, 2001 at
the Sea Crest Conference Center in North Falmouth MA (1/11)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2001/fss-01.html
CIA-2001 Cooperative Information Agents -- Fifth International
Workshop CIA-2001 on Cooperative Information Agents will be held
September 6 - 8, 2001 in Modena, Italy in cooperation with VLDB 2001.
The deadline for submitted papers is April 10, 2001. (1/11)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2001.html
OpenArch'2001 - "Ghosts of the Net!" -- A short paper session at the
The Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network
Programming which will be held April 27-28, 2001 in Anchorage,
Alaska. "Show us the new Ghosts of the Net: We want to know what these
code spirits do there, how they look, how they behave, how you make
them. Let the rays of mobile code penetrate the deepest corner of the
dark network core and enlighten us with everything you know about the
future of active networking, open signaling and programmable networks."
(1/9)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/oa2001-sps/
The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontology Learning -- This one -day workshop
will be held on August 4, 2001 in Seattle, USA. Papers should be
submitted by February 21, 2001. (1/9)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://ol2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/
Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data -- The focus of this AAAI symposium
(November 2-4, 2001) is on the connection between abstract- and
physical-level representations of objects in autonomous robotic
systems. We call "anchoring" the process of creating, and maintaining
in time, this connection. Anchoring can thus be seen as a special case
of symbol grounding where the symbols denote physical objects. (1/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aass.oru.se/Living/FSS01/
Agent-Oriented Software Architectures for B2B -- A special session at
the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC’AI
2001), Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, June 25-28, 2001 (1/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~blakeb/ICAI2001_AgentB2B/
Acroname -- easier robotics -- "Simply stated, we want to make
robotics easier for everybody." Acroname sells components, parts,
kits and books for building robots. (1/5)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.acroname.com/mission.html
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