UMBC AgentNews, v8n5, 28 April 2003, http://agents.umbc.edu/08/05/

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Latest News Items

Military robots to get swarm intelligence -- A battalion of 120 military robots is to be fitted with swarm intelligence software to enable them to mimic the organized behavior of insects to perform missions such as minesweeping and search and rescue with minimum intervention from human operators. (4/28)

Opentable.com models users for restaurants -- OpenTable.com, an online restaurant reservation service, maintains extensive models of individual profiles and preferences for restaurants. (4/24)

Wakamaru Bot at Your Service -- Wakamaru, a robot that is intelligent enough to assist patients at home, is designed to provide assistance to Japan's growing population of seniors. Elisa Batista reports from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. (4/24)

W3C Work On Semantic Web Draws Criticism -- The World Wide Web Consortium's recent release of working drafts on Semantic Web specifications has left some analysts wondering whether the group is drifting too far from solving today's interoperability problems between IT systems. (4/17)

W3C advances Semantic Web drafts -- Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's leading standards group has issued a number of updates and promised a spring and summer education campaign. (4/17)

OWL 1.0 in last call -- The W3C Web Ontology Working Group released six Working Drafts, five in Last Call, for OWL 1.0, including the OWL Guide, Overview, Use Cases and Requirements, Semantics and Abstract Syntax, Reference, and Test Cases. Comments are welcome through 9 May, OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. (4/4) (4/4)

Latest Directory Additions

Practical RDF -- Shelley Powers, Practical RDF, O'Reilly, July 2003. Covers RDF, RDFS and OWL. (4/28)

Sync: Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order -- Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Hyperion, March 2003. Strogatz is a Cornell mathematician and pioneer of the science of synchrony, which brings mathematics, physics and biology to bear on the mystery of how spontaneous order occurs at every level of the cosmos, from the nucleus on up. (4/28)

Artificial Stock Market -- The Santa Fe Institute has open-sourced the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market (ASM) simulation model, developed by a number of SFI researchers in Objective C using the Swarm toolkit. ( Agent-Based Computational Economics News) (4/28)

Int. Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation -- The International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation (IJIGS) is a web-based refereed publication of the University of Wolverhampton, UK. The purpose of IJIGS is to disseminate recent research results and review current progress in computer games, with particular emphasis on the introduction of artificial intelligence into game development and the simulation of game designs incorporating artificial intelligence. ( Agent-Based Computational Economics News) (4/28)

Combinatorial business chemistry -- A multiagent simulation demonstrating how *Simple rules of individual behavior can lead to surprisingly coherent system level results" (4/28)

Icosystem -- Icosystems is a company founded by Eric Bonabeau that " combines the principles of network analysis, dynamic modeling and complexity science with leading-edge computational tools to simulate a particular business ecosystem and determine the validity of opportunities that might arise." (4/28)

Zabaware -- Zabaware is a company developing products based its chatterbot Hal. (4/18)

Chatterbot Challenge 2003 -- 88 Chatter Bots from around the world were entered in the 2003 Chatter Box Challenge sponsored by Zabaware. VIsit the site to talk to the bots and vote for your favorites (4/18)

OWL and RDF tutorials -- Roger Costello and David Jacobs of MITRE have written some powerpoint tutorials on RDF, RDFS and OWL complete with lab exercises. These an other related documents are available at http://www.xfront.com/. (4/17)

Semantic World - The Data Semantics Community -- Semantic World is a web community dedicated to the use of semantic information management methods in industry. Semantic World will include relevant news and analysis, a comprehensive resource center, and interactive forums for practitioners of semantic methodologies to share experiences, problems, and initiatives. Semantic World aims to support and influence developing standards for ontology modeling, semantic mapping, and the use of semantic information management methods in IT. (4/17)

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