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Already roaming Web, bots are heading into a new domain -- Some believe the cyberspace agents will handle personal tasks for Internet users in addition to gathering data. (2/27)

OntoEdit Ontology Workbench -- A new version of the OntoEdit Ontology Engineering Workbench is available. OntoEdit is a development environment for design, adaptation and import of knowledge models for application systems. OntoEdit can import and export knowledge bases in RDF and DAML+OIL as well as other formalisms. (2/27)

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Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) -- The Tenth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held November 6-9, 2001 in Atlanta. CIKM's scope includes advanced databases, information retrieval and intelligent systems. Papers abstracts are due May 21 and full papers, and proposals for tutorials, workshops and panes are due May 28. (3/4)

Agents for handheld, mobile and embedded devices -- Papers are sought for a special track of the ATAL-2001 workshop on the use of agent technology for hand-held, mobile or embedded devices. The ATAL workshop will be held in Seattle on August 1-3, 2001. and aims to bring together researchers interested in the agent-level, micro aspects of agent technology. Specifically, ATAL-2000 will address issues such as theories of rational agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for realising agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. Papers that consider macro-level, societal issues of agent-based systems are welcome if they explicitly relate to the workshop themes. Papers are due April 6, 2001. (2/25)

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)

Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) -- The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) will be held at Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan on October 23-26, 2001. Papers are due March 20, 2001. (3/4)

Semantic Web Workshop -- The International Semantic Web Workshop (SWWS) "Infrastructure and Applications for the Semantic Web" will be held at Stanford on July 30-31 2001 (3/4)

Mondeca -- Mondeca is a company which provides tools incorporating topic maps for "dynamic content navigation". (3/4)

Mimesis -- the mimesis project explores the use of computer game engines (e.g. Epic Games' Unreal Tournament) as test-beds for research in artificial intelligence, interactive entertainment and educational software. the project brings together undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of computer science, English, multi-disciplinary studies, design and communication at ncsu. (3/4)

cfp: Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications -- Third International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications (MATA'01)will be held on August 14 -16, 2001, in Montreal. (3/4)

cfp: economics with heterogeneous interacting agents -- The 6th annual workshop on economics with heterogeneous interacting agents is being held June 7-9, 2001 in Maastricht. The workshop is being hosted jointly by MERIT and the International Institute on Infonomics. (3/4)

Evolutionary Robotics -- Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, 384 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) MIT Press; ISBN: 0262140705 (3/4)

Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS) -- The Third International Bi-Conference Workshop on AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS-2001) will be held on 28 May 2001, Montreal (Canada) at Agents 2001 and 4 June 2001, Interlaken (Switzerland) at CAiSE'01 . (3/4)

GNU/Linux AI & Alife HOWTO -- This howto maintained by John Eikenberry mainly contains information about, and links to, various AI related software libraries, applications, etc. that work on the Linux platform. All of it is free (gratis) for personal use and most of it is truly free (libre). (3/4)

Mobile Code Protection -- Mobile Code Protection, Sergio Loureiro, January, 2001, PhD Dissertation, Institut Eurécom, Sophia Antipolis & ENST Paris, Franc. The work focuses on the protection of mobile agents from the execution environment and potentially malicious hosts. (3/4)

cfp: intelligent information interfaces -- A series of workshops organized around the theme of intelligent information interfaces will be held 23-25 April 2001 in Porto, Portugal. (3/4)

Workshop on agents and internet learning -- A workshop on AGENTS AND INTERNET LEARNING (AIL-2001) will be held at the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001) in Montreal on May 28th 2001 (3/4)

CEEMAS 2001 -- CEEMAS'2001, the 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems, will be held 26 - 29 September 2001 in in Cracow, Poland. (3/4)

MySpiders intelligent information retrieval -- MySpiders are threads in a Java applet implementing intelligent, autonomous, adaptive software agents that will crawl the Web on your behalf, surviving as long as they find relevant pages. MySpiders are a prototype of the InfoSpiders project, bringing artificial life to the Web. (2/27)

Filippo Menczer -- Filippo Menczer is an Assistant Professor in the Management Sciences Department of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. (2/27)

Repository of FIPA agent Specifications -- The FIPA specifications for agents standards are available in both pdf and html form. (2/25)

FIPA agent standards mailing lists -- Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) maintains a set of mailing lists, most of which are open to anyone. Mailing listst include those devoted to general discussion, agent architectures, agents in wireless environments, the agentCIties application testbed, and manufacturing applications. (2/25)

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