Agent frameworks

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Natural Intelligence is shipping a Java development environment for the Mac named Roaster. Cost is $399. 1/16/96
PostModern Computing announced Black Widow , an object request broker which connects CORBA objects with web using Java. 1/4/96
MITRE's GIA: Generic Instructional Architecture is an agent-based software infrastructure which supports the rapid development of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) applications. Recent papers include:
- Cheikes, B. A. (1995) Should ITS Designers Be Looking For A Few Good Agents? In Proceedings of the AI-ED'95 Workshop on Authoring Shells for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Major, N., Murray, T., and Bloom, C. (eds.). ( PostScript).
- Cheikes, B. A. (1995) GIA: An Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. To appear in Proceedings of the CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents. (in PostScript) .
11/20/95
OAA: An Open Agent Architecture. With P. Cohen, M. Wang & SC Baeg . AAAI Spring Symposium, 1994 PostScript: 55K 9/29/95
The Aaron Sloman and Riccardo Poli. Implemented in Poplog Pop-11, it is intended for exploring architectures for individual or interacting agents.9/14/95
A Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures. (considers: Subsumption Architectures, ATLANTIS, Theo, Prodigy, ICARUS, Adaptive Intelligent Systems (AIS), A Meta-reasoning Architecture for 'X' (MAX), Homer, Soar, Teton, RALPH-MEA, Entropy Reduction Engine). 9/11/95
The Krest Workbench , Krest and Software Agents, KAOS (KresT Agent Operating System).
Agent-Oriented Programming page at Stanford -- Applying Software Agents to Software Communication, Integration, and HCI. 9/8/95
Agent-K : an integration of AOP and KQML
Agent-Oriented Programming : AGENT0
OSCAR is an architecture for a rational agent designed by John Pollock (University of Arizona) and implemented in Lisp. 7/13/95
DYNACLIPS (DYNAamic CLIPS Utilities) is a set of blackboard, dynamic knowledge exchange, and agent tools for CLIPS 5.1 and 6.0. AGENT_CLIPS is a multi-agent tool for Macintosh based on DYNACLIPS.
SodaBot is a research project of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab aimed at simplifying the construction of software agents.
A lightweight framework for generic (software and robotics) agents is being developed by the Web Projects Group, part of the The Scheme Underground at the MIT AI lab
KYMA-Atlantis® Intelligent Agent Platform -- a commercial product for Windows95 and Windows/NT. 9/6/95
The Unified Agent Architecture is a proposal for a " generic and open architecture for the creation, execution, and distribution of software agents across networked computing platforms." 9/6/95

Comments and suggestions to Tim Finin .... finin@umbc.edu