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UMBC AgentNews v6n3 Sun Jan 21 23:03:53 2001
The past seven 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
The 'Transformers' are coming -- A BBC News story on Dartmouth's work
on self-configuring robots. (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1124000/1124312.stm
DAML+OIL semantic web language -- The DAML+OIL language is a semantic
markup language based on RDFS under development by the DARPA DAML
program. DAML+OIL is a refinement of the original DAML-ONT
specification and includes both a model-theoretic and an axiomatic
account of its semantics. (1/19) http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.daml.org/2000/12/
Web Sites Begin to Self Organize -- An emerging class of
self-organizing Web sites are demonstrating that with a dab or two of
well-written code and a bit of careful planning, a site can take a
random collection of links or posts and turn them into a
sophisticated, adaptive system. (NYT) (1/18)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/technology/18SELF.html?pagewanted=1
Voice Recognition Still Selective -- A NYT article on current spoken
language understanding technology. (1/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/AP-Voice-Recognition.html
The Real HAL: AI in Space -- A CNN story on NASA's use of AI and agent
technology in Deep Space I. (1/13)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/12/27/part.four/
Tough Times for Data Robots -- A controversial 1999 decision made life
tough for robots -- 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
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cfp: Ontologies in Agent Systems -- The Workshop on Ontologies in
Agent Systems will be held in Montreal on 29 May 2001 in conjunction
with the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. OAS2001
will provide a forum for the discussion and comparison of different
approaches to the representation of ontologies for agent systems, the
practical considerations of designing applications using these
techniques and the infrastructural support required for their
effective use. It will also address the implications of the current
diversity of ontology representation languages and the degree to which
standardisation can or should be achieved. Submissions are due on
March 16, 2001. (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cis.otago.ac.nz/OASWorkshop/
International Society for Research on Emotions -- ISRE holds
conferences and publishes a newslwetter of interest to researchers on
emotions and emotional systems. (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/users/tboone/ISRE/ISRE.html
Emotion Forum: artificial and human/animal emotion. -- A resource of
information and links for researchers trying to model emotions in
humans, animals, and robots (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.lri.fr/~lola/emotion.html
cfp: Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition
-- This workshop is part of the AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium Series which
will be held at the Sea Crest Conference Center, North Falmouth, MA,
November 2-4, 2001. The Submission deadline is March 30, 2001 (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.lri.fr/~lola/ei-fs01.html
cfp: Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications -- The Third
International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication
Applications will be held August 14-16, 2001 in Montreal. Papers are
due April 1, 2001. (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.congresbcu.com/mata01/
cfp: Agent-Based Approaches to B2B -- A workshop on Agent-Based
Approaches to B2B will be held at the 2001 International Conference on
Autonomous Agents (AGENTS2001) in Montreal, on May 29, 2001. (1/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~blakeb/AGENTS2001_AgentB2B.html
Agent Oriented Software Engineering 2001 -- The Second International
Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2001) will be
held at Autonomous Agents 2001 in Montreal - May 29th 2001 (1/19)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/aose/
economics with heterogeneous interacting agents -- The 6th annual
workshop on economics with heterogeneous interacting agents is being
held Jun 7-9, 2001 in Maastricht. This workshop will continue the
tradition established in the previous workshops in Marseille, Genoa,
Ancona, as an important venue for the presentation of recent
developments in research which views the economy as a complex system
of interacting agents. (1/19)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://meritbbs.unimaas.nl/WEHIA/
cfp: Software Agents and Workflows for Systems Interoperability -- The
Workshop on Software Agents and Workflows for Systems Interoperability
will be held in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on
CSCW in Design July 12-15, 2001, London, Ontario, Canada. Papers are
due May 15th, 2001. (1/19)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cscwid.org/cscwd2001/workshop1.htm
SwarmFest 2001 -- The fifth annual meeting of the Swarm user group,
will be April 29-30 at Hotel Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, NM. (1/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.swarm.org/community-swarmfest.html
Software Engineering and Mobility -- Software Engineering and Mobility
is a workshop co-located with ICSE 2001 May 13-14, 2001 Westin Harbour
Castle Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.elet.polimi.it/Users/DEI/Sections/Compeng/GianPietro.Picco/ICSE01mobility/
cfp: Internet Bots: Systems and Applications -- he International
Workshop on Internet Bots: Systems and Applications will be held in
conjunction with 12th International Conference on Database and Expert
Systems Applications (DEXA2001), Sept 3-7, 2001 in Munich. The
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 Nov 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
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