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An Honors University in Maryland
Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology
What's new with
Agents, KQML and
Knowledge Sharing
December 1995
UMBC Agent Web
- Research on N-Grams in
Information Retrieval is
James Mayfield's list of resources relating to the use of
n-grams. 12/29/95 .
- IPIC'96, the
International Working Conference on Integration of Enterprise
Information and Processes, "Rethinking Documents", will be held at
MIT on November 14-15, 1996. This will be the first in a series that
addresses "integration issues" of enterprises in the context of their
increasingly distributed business and operational processes.
Specifically, it will address "information integration" (creation of
new, value-added information out of existing information), "process
integration" (reorganization of structural relationships among
enterprise process entities for enhanced performance), and synergy
between information integration and process integration.
12/22/95
- Mitch Gould is working on the emotional interactions between user
interface agents and the consumer as it relates to broadband
information access. See Anchors &
Guests -- A Social Interface for Digital Broadband
Applications. 12/22/95
-
ECAI'96 Workshop on Ontological Engineering, held in conjunction
with ECAI'96, Budapest, August 12 or 13, 1996. 12/22/95
- CALL FOR PAPERS -- The Third
International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
(ATAL-96) to be held at ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary, August
12--13, 1996. 12/18/95
-
Workshop on Learning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Systems held as part of the 12th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI) (August 12-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary).
12/18/95
- Ishida Laboratory at
Kyoto University conducts basic research into Artificial Intelligence
and Robotics with emphasis on multiagent systems, problem solving, and
robot vision. One interesting system developed at Ishida Lab is AgenTalk, a coordination
protocol description language for multiagent systems. 12/13/95
-
Defining the Role of Agents in Web Malls , Robert E. Calem, Web
Week, Volume 1, Issue 8, December 1995. This short article discusses
the role agents are beginning to play in some on-line shopping sites
such as eShop Plaza , Bargain Finder , Internet Fashion Mall , and DreamShop . 12/13/95.
- Concur is a Web
server presentation of Gregory
R. Olsen's (<olsen@cs.stanford.edu>) Ph.D. dissertation in
Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. His work uses an agent-based
approach (using KIF, Ontologies and KQML) to provide computational
support for engineering collaboration and is the result of
collaboration among several groups at Stanford, Lockheed and EIT.
12/12/95
- JavaAgent Template!
allows you to implement KQML speaking agents in Java. It was
developed by Rob Frost (frost@cdr.stanford.edu) of
the Stanford Agent-Based
Engineering research group. The agents exchange asynchronous
KQML messages via sockets and can be executed as stand-alone Java
application or as applets via a WWW browser. 12/12/95
- ONTOLOGY!
is a page listing projects, people, conferences and specific
resources on ontologies maintained by Enrico Franconi
(franconi@irst.itc.it).
12/12/95
- The harvest project is undergoing a major change as most of the
participants move on to other things, including PI Mike
Schwartz, who is on leave from the University of COlorado and the
new Senior Scientist of the @Home
Network, a Silicon Valley startup doing Internet over cable.
- The
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Lab at the University of Maryland
College Park has a number of projects which involve the intelligent
control of goal-based robotics and motion planning. 12/12/95
-
Agent Tcl is a transportable agent system in which the agents are
written in Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0. Agent Tcl is under continuous use at
Dartmouth in a range of information-retrieval and
information-management applications. It is roughly analagous to
Telescript except that it uses Tcl, is lightweight, and *currently*
provides limited security. An alpha release is now available which
runs on standard Unix platforms. 12/11/95
- The
Web as a Distributed Application Platform12/9/85
- Cycorp, Inc., founded
in January 1995 as a spin-off from MCC, is continuing the development of
the Cyc project. Cycorp is headed by by Doug Lenat and includes
most of the MCC team that has been building Cyc since 1984. The Cyc system comprises a
very large, multi-contextual knowledge base with over 400K assertions,
an inference engine, a set of interface tools, and a number of
special-purpose application modules, running on a variety of
platforms. 12/7/95.
- Ontology: A
Resource Page is maintained by Doug Skuce
(doug@csi.uottawa.ca) as place for researchers in ontological
issues to quickly locate relevant material such as other researchers,
publications, workshops, etc. 12/7/95
- The IBM aqui
page offers an interesting web-group-ware capability. They say:
"aqui's role is simply to keep track of links between web pages
even though the links aren't actually in the web pages. These links,
known as aqui links, are kept in a separate server and are visible to
everyone on the web. Using aqui, you can create and view these links.
.... because aqui links are a collaborative effort of all of the
users of the web, you'll see more links to related information than
what the web page author knew about." 12/7/95.
- Don Gilbert, Manny Aparicio, Betty Atkinson, Steve Brady, Joe
Ciccarino, Benjamin Grosof, Pat O'Connor, Damian Osisek, Steve Pritko,
Rick Spagna, and Les Wilson, White paper
on intelligent agents.IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC.
12/7/95
- IBM's Intelligent
Agent page describes their business strategy for agent technology,
offers several white papers, and lists a number of related events and
resources. There is a nice white paper
on intelligent agents. 12/7/95
- Agents, Inc is a spin off of the Media Lab group that
did HOMR. They describe themselves as "a venture-backed business
commercializing a revolutionary new set of algorithms - originally
developed by company founders at the MIT Media Laboratory - that
leverage the human experiences of subscribers to help users navigate
large information spaces. These technologies automate the
word-of-mouth process while creating truly digital communities."
Their first system, Firefly, is based on HOMR
and is described as "your own personal software agent capable of
communicating with other users and recommending music that it knows
you'll enjoy."12/7/95
- The Third International Workshop on Agent Theories,
Architectures, And Languages (ATAL-96), to be held at ECAI-96,
Budapest, Hungary, August 12--13, 1996. 12/6/95
- AAAI-96 International Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive
Agents (IAA-96) August 4-5, 1996, Portland, Oregon.12/6/95
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Facile is a high-level, higher-order programming language for
systems that require a combination of complex data manipulation and
concurrent and distributed computing. It combines Standard ML (SML),
with a model of higher-order concurrent processes based on CCS. Facile
is being used at ECRC to develop Mobile Service Agents
. 12/6/95.
- Infomaster is a
virtual information system that allows users to access a variety of
heterogeneous, distributed information from multiple perspectives.
Infomaster accesses information stored in databases or knowledge bases
using Agent Communication Language (ACL), a combination of KQML, KIF,
and Ontologies. Infomaster is an operational system that currently
presents information on rental housing and on people at Stanford.
More 12/4/95
- A Survey
of Cognitive and Agent Architectures 12/1/95
AgentWeb is maintained at the UMBC
Lab for Advanced Information
Technology by Tim
Finin (finin@umbc.edu).
Thursday, 28-Mar-1996 22:36:52 EST