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Agents on the (power) grid -- A Wired article on ideas to use MAS techniques to distribute power -- "The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming - and interconnected with everything else." (6/16)

Latest Directory Additions

Models for mobility mailing list -- Moca (Mobile calculi) is a moderated mailing list on models for mobility. (6/17)

OpenCybele -- OpenCybele is an open source release of the Cybele agent infrastructure developed by Intelligent Automation Incorporated in Rockville MD. (6/17)

Ontology-Based Infrastructure of the Semantic Web -- A one-day workshop on Ontology-Based Infrastructure of the Semantic Web will be held on October 21, 2001 in Victoria B.C. Canada in conjunction with the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture. (6/17)

Knowledge Markup and Annotation Workshop -- A one-day workshop on Knowledge Markup and Annotation will be held on October 21, 2001 in Victoria B.C. Canada in conjunction with the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture. (6/17)

Distributed Constraint Satisfaction : Foundations of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems -- Yokoo, Etzioni, Ishida , and Jennings, Springer Verlag, January 2001, ISBN: 3540675965.This book gives an overview of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), adapts related search algorithms and consistency algorithms for applications to multi-agent systems, and consolidates recent research devoted to cooperation in such systems. (6/16)

Service Location Protocol -- The Service Location Protocol (SLP) is a new IETF standards-track protocol designed to simplify the discovery and use of network resources such as printers, Web servers, fax machines, etc. (6/16)

BotBox - Personal Internet Agents -- BotBox, a spinoff of the Swedish Institute for Computer Science, offers BotBox Personal Assistant 1.0 which "gives you a set of information monitoring agents that automate the tedious task of retrieving and filtering relevant information." (6/16)

The Mozart Programming System -- The Mozart Programming System is an advanced development platform for intelligent, distributed applications. Mozart is based on the Oz language, which supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole. For distribution, Mozart provides a true network transparent implementation with support for network awareness, openness, and fault tolerance. (6/15)

cfp: Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems -- The ICLP'01 Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems will be held on December 1st, 2001 in Paphos, Cyprus. (6/15)

Understanding ebXML -- Understanding ebXML --Untangling the business Web of the future, David Mertz, IBM DeveloperWorks Site Provides an overview of ebXML. ebXML is a set of specifications that together enable a modular electronic business framework. The vision of ebXML is to enable a global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML-based messages. (6/15)

Pricing, Agents, Perceived Value and the Internet -- by Phillip G. Bradford, Herbert E. Brown and Paula M. Saunders, FirstMonday, Volume 6, Number 6 , June 4th 2001. The Internet has changed the way people buy things. A pointed difference is the use of Internet auctions and bots. But, are these differences actually changing the role and function of price in the firm's marketing program? Are they possibly changing options for pricing, and perhaps even, the very notion of perceived value? Or in fact, does the new set of Internet pricing mechanisms merely require marketers to do what good marketers have always done, and that is to build customer-perceived value and use price to recapture it? The only difference may be that now, we can do it even better because we have better tools. (6/15)

agent manufacturing at Trieste -- This page collects all available data (papers, presentations, etc.) of the research in Agent-Based Manufacturing performed by the ORTS group of the University of Trieste (Italy) (6/15)

Waldo on "Mobile code, distributed computing and agents" -- An article from IEEE Intelligent Systems by Sun's Jim Waldo, lead architect of Jini. (6/15)

The Semantic Web -- will it work? -- Last week we incorrectly attributed this article to El.pub's David Hitchcock. The author is Geoffrey Stephenson of Knowledge Exchange Technologies.

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