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AAMAS 2003 location proposals sought -- Bids are solicited to host the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in 2003. AAMAS is a joint event comprising the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA), The 6th International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS), and the 10th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), (7/15)

IBM releases AI software for help desks -- IBM has developed a "Virtual Help Desk" that uses AI techniques to fix routine computer problems "autonomically." The software "sits and runs in the background an observes and draws conclusions. If medication doesn't work, it routes work around the ailing mechanism, then literally makes a phone call to the home of an employee and tell him the problem and the spare parts that are needed." (AP) (7/13)

Voice portals -- A NYT article on voice portals -- information services that you reach by dialing a toll-free number. "At the other end, a chipper automated voice greets you and offers you a broad range of free services, which you summon just by saying their names." " (7/12)

Latest Directory Additions

Personalization of Web Services -- Monica Bonett, "Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges", Ariadne, number 28, June 2001, provides an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. (7/15)

ElComAg - Electronic Commercial Agents -- The ElComAg (Electronic Commercial Agents) project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is focused on facilities for trading of knowledge by electronic commerce, including (1) conceptual modeling of knowledge and trading process, (2) the design of sale-sites (electronic marketplaces), (3) the design of agents for serving the trade process, and (4) information system architecture for knowledge trade. (7/15)

Agent-mediated ecommerce events -- This page lists conferences, journals and workshops and other events (somewhat) related to Agent-Mediated E-Commerce. (7/15)

Pervasive 2002 -- The International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2002 will be held August 26-28, 2002 in Zurich Switzerland. Papers are due on February 22, 2002. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. (7/13)

Measuring the intelligence and performance of intelligent systems -- PERMIS 2001 is a one-day workshop on Measuring Intelligence and Performance Of Intelligent Systems to be held on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at NIST in Gaithersburg MD. The goal of PERMIS is to discuss the challenges pertaining to measuring performance of intelligent system: should it be measured in a different way than performance of regular systems, what are the practical testing arrangements, how to measure performance of intelligent systems for knowledge processing. (7/11)

FIPA-OS v2.1 -- FIPA-OS v2.1.0, an open-sourced java FIPA complient agent platform, is now available and inlcudes an electronic marketplace application framework, HTTP message transport protocol support, and MicroFIPA-OS, a version intended for small footprint version for PDAs, mobile phones, etc. (7/11)

LEAP agents platform for small devices -- The first release of the LEAP 3.0 open-source FIPA agent platorm for small devices is expected to be on September 1, 2001. LEAP 3.0 implements a light weight extensible add-on that is compatible with the JADE development and platform environment and runs using J2SE, J2ME and Personal Java configurations. It has been tested on a number of devices: PALM Vx, PSION 5mx, Compaq iPaq, Motorola Accompli 008; and small device emulators: Symbian Quartz and Siemens SX45. (7/11)

ITTALKS -- ITTALKS.ORG a database driven web site of IT related talks at UMBC and other institutions. The database contains information on seminar events, people (speakers, hosts, users, ...) Places (rooms, institutions, ...) and dynamically generate web pages and semantic web descriptions using the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) for the talks and related information and serves as a focal point for agent-based services relating to these talks. To add you organization to ittalks.org and receive a domain (e.g., mit.ittalks.org) contact mailto:info@ittalks.org. (7/8)

ebiquity.org -- ebiquity.org is a a portal with news and articles relevant to mobile computing, wireless technology and pervasive computing, much of it with an intelligent agents spin. You can visit this page to see, post, and engage in discussions around news items and articles on all aspects of mobile computing. New articles are posted on a daily basis. (7/8)

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