"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about and." -- Sir Arthur Eddington

AAMAS Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents -- A workshop on ubiquitous agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices the University of Bologna in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (submit papers by 22 April). (2/19)

AAAI Workshop on Agent-based Systems for IR -- A workshop on agent-based IR will be held in conjunction with AAAI 02 -- papers are due March 31, 2002. (2/23)

AAAI Workshop on Planning with and for Multiagent Systems -- The AAAI Workshop on Planning With and For Multiagent Systems will be held prior to AAAI in Edmonton, Canada, on Sunday, July 28, and Monday, July 29. The submission deadline of March 15. (2/23)

Software agents on TV set-top boxes -- "A team of computer scientists at BIAP Systems, a provider of intelligent software for multiple computing devices, has successfully embedded artificial-intelligence-based software on broadband television set-top boxes, it was announced today. " (3/10)

Metacrap...seven straw-men of the meta-utopia -- A pessimistic essay by Cory Doctorow on metadata -- "A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities." (3/10)

Artificial societies -- In the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Jonathan Rauch explains the new science of artificial societies -- which is a marriage of computer and social science, and which studies subjects like genocide, segregation of neighborhoods, shocks in financial markets, crime waves, and epidemics caused by bioterrorism. (3/10)

Designing Sociable Robots -- Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. (3/9)

Dagstuhl Seminar on Ubiquitous Computing -- This site has papers and presentations from the Dagstuhl seminar on Ubiquitous Computing held on September 9-14, 2001 (2/28)

New Scientist: AI and A-Life -- The new scientist runs regular articles on AI and artificial life, many of which are collected on these web pages. (2/28)

MAGNET: Multiagent negotiation testbed -- Maria Gini and students at the University of Minnesota have developed MAGNET as a system to support complex agent interactions, such as in automated contracting, as well as other types of negotiation protocols including B2B supply chain management. (2/27)

CS525M, WPI, Multi-agent Systems -- A course on multiagent systems offered by Adina Magda Florea at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (2/27)

European Agent Systems Summer School 2002 in Bologna Italy -- EASSS 2002 will consist of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the MAS field, and will cover the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of agent-based computing. (2/27)

Agent Oriented Software Engineering Workshop -- 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2002), to be held at the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2002), July 2002 (2/25)

Agentcities initiative -- Agentcities is a global, open collaborative initiative involving researchers and projects from many countries and research areas. Our objective is to construct a worldwide, open network of on-line systems hosting diverse agent based services which can interact with one another dynamically, autonomously and intelligently to form new compound services. (2/24)

Introduction to MultiAgent Systems -- Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, Michael Woolridge, (256 pages, paperback, June, 2002, John Wiley and Sons, isbn:047149691X) is intended for use as an undergraduate textbook. Supporting teaching resources are available on line at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/imas/. (2/24)

Requirements for a Web Ontology Language -- The W3C's Semantic Web Activity has published a requirements document for on Ontology Web Language (OWL). (3/9)

Triple - and RDF query, inference and transformation language -- TRIPLE is a general RDF query, inference, and transformation language which allows various semantics of Semantic Web languages to be defined, either directly with TRIPLE rules, or by accessing external inference engines (like a DL classifier). (3/6)

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