UMBC AgentNews v6n4      Sun Jan 28 22:30:07 2001

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Advancement of Learning

Latest News Items

Time for real intelligence? -- By BBC News Online's Ivan Noble "It is time to start building machines which can learn and be raised in the same way as humans, the authors of an article in the journal Science say. ...." (1/27)

Intelligent machines threaten human-kind -- At least in the movies, according to ZDNET. (1/25)

AltaVista claims ownership of web indexing technology -- AltaVista has claimed a patent on a method of indexing Web sites used by most search engines and company intranets, and is threatening to sue companies using these search techniques for patent infringement. "We believe that virtually everyone out there who indexes the Web is in violation of at least several of [AltaVista's] key patents," says David Wetherell, CEO of CMGI, AltaVista's parent company. (1/25)

Mining the 'Deep Web' With Specialized Drills -- Traditional search engines have access to only a fraction of 1 percent of what exists on the Web. To dig deeper into the Web, a new breed of search engine has cropped up that takes a different approach to Web page retrieval. (NYT) (1/25)

AI, the trailer -- Warner has released a quicktime trailer for the much anticipated movie A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE directed by Spielberg and begun by Kubrick. "David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not. (1/24)

Sandholm wins AA'01 Research Award -- Tuomas Sandholm (CMU) has been awarded the 2001 SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award in recognition of his work on electronic markets and multiagent systems. (1/22)

DAML+OIL semantic web language -- The DAML+OIL language is a semantic markup language under development by the DARPA DAML program which replaces the originalDAML-ONT specification. (1/19)

Latest Directory Additions

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 standardization can or should be achieved. Submissions are due on March 16, 2001. (1/21)

cfp: Autonomy Oriented Computation -- The Workshop on Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC) will be held at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents(Agents 2001) Montreal on May 29, 2001. Submitted papers are due March 9. (1/28)

cfp: Security of Mobile Multiagent Systems -- The First International Workshop on SECURITY OF MOBILE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (SEMAS-2001) will be held at the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001) Montreal on May 29th 2001. (1/27)

Decision Support Systems Resources -- DSSResources.COM (Decision Support Systems Resources) is a web-based knowledge repository. The mission of the site is to help people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making. The target audience is IS professionals, IS students, managers interested in MIS and academics in MIS/DSS. (1/27)

cfp: Holons: Autonomous and Cooperative Agents for Industry -- The Workshop on Holons: Autonomous and Cooperative Agents for Industry will be held at the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents Montreal on, 29 May 2001 (1/27)

cfp: Cooperative Information Systems -- The Sixth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001) will be held in Trento, Italy September 5-7, 2001. Papers are due March 7, 2001. (1/27)

Sixth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'2001) -- (1/27)

Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme -- This essay by Tim O'Reilly is an excerpt from the forth-coming book Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Disruptive Potential of Collaborative Networking. (1/27)

O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference -- The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference will be held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco on February 14-16, 2001. (1/27)

The Power of Metadata -- This essay by Rael Dornfest and Dan Brickley is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Disruptive Potential of Collaborative Networking Edited by Andy Oram (1/27)

OpenP2P.com -- O'Reilly's portal for peer-to-peer resources. (1/27)

cfp: E-Business and the Intelligent Web -- the workshop on E-Business and the Intelligent Web will be held at IJCAI-01 in Seattle on August 5 2001. (1/25)

cfp: AI applications to ecommerce -- The International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications to E-Commerce will be held June 25-28, 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (1/24)

hi-flier - Intelligent Matchmaking -- AN Italian company that develops "...scalable and configurable matchmaking solutions based on Intelligent Agents Technology for various Internet and Wireless applications and services including e-commerce and shopping assistance, job searches and people matching, banking and financial services." (1/24)

From Animals to Animats 6 -- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior edited by Jean-Arcady Meyer, Alain Berthoz, Dario Floreano, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Stewart W. Wilson, 540 pages 1st edition (October 2000) MIT Press; ISBN: 0262632004 (1/24)

cfp: Wearable Computing: Towards Humanistic Intelligence -- the May/June issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems will be a special issue on wearable computing. They seek papers describing intelligent systems that include the human as an integral part of the system. Preference will be given to papers describing systems that actually demonstrate the integration of human-computer adaptation, intelligent real-time action, reasoning, learning, and control, or that focus on a specific clearly stated problem or clearly stated scientific hypothesis. (1/22)

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