October 1995
- A
Philosophical Encounter, Aaron Sloman,(The University of
Birmingham, A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk, http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs),
Proceedings 14th International Joint Conference on AI Montreal, August
1995. -- relates AI to some of the philosophical issues which underly
agents (e.g., ontologies, intentionality, etc.). 10/27/95
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Secret Agents
-- A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication
Language, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu (EIT), Tim Finin (UMBC) and
James Mayfield (UMBC), October 1995. 200K bytes postscript. (Draft
submitted to the CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop,
Baltimore, December 1995.)
- The
PARAgente project in the Hypermedia Research Lab at Texas A&M
University is investigating issues in agent-based user interfaces,
especially as they apply to hypermedia and digital libraries. Also see
- Sánchez, J. A., Azevedo, F. S., and Leggett, J. J. 1995.
PARAgente: Exploring the issues in agent-based user interfaces. In
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-agent
Systems (ICMAS-95),
(San Francisco, CA, June) pp. 320-327.
Paper
available in compressed postscript format. 10/22/95
- Sánchez, J. A., Leggett, J. J., and Schnase
J. L. 1994. HyperActive: Extending an open hypermedia architecture to
support agency. ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction 1
, 4 (December), 357-382
Abstract and
full paper available in compressed postscript format. 10/22/95
- Sánchez, J. A. 1994. User agents in the interface to
digital libraries. In Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94
(College Station, TX, June), pp. 217-218.
A
position paper , available in compressed postscript format. 10/22/95
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The Persona project at Microsoft Research is developing the
technologies required to produce conversational assistants-- lifelike
animated characters that interact with a user in a natural spoken
dialogue. (See Maarten Van Dantzich and Trace Wax. Lifelike
Computer Characters: the Persona project at Microsoft Research (600KB Microsoft Word format) 10/22/95
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Research efforts related to Lifelike Computer Characters is a
resource list maintained at MSR. 10/22/95
- The Microsoft Research User Interfaces
group is part of their and is exploring some
agent-related technologies: (1) Social user interfaces based on
life-like computer characters which can interact and build a rapport
with the user; (2) Spoken conversation with a computer agents. See
Persona: Conversational Interfaces; and (3) Reactive 3D-animation
including complex animated behavior, real-time specification and
synchronization of various time-based streams. This group is part of
MSR's overall research effort on advanced
interactivity and intelligence .10/22/95
- The OSF
Wide-Area Intelligent Browsing Associates (WAIBA)
project. 10/21/95
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OORPC: Code from Interfaces -- information on modern
object-oriented RPC systems with an interface specification languages
such as OMG CORBA, ILU, SOM/DSOM, OLE, DCE, ANSA, Modula-3 Network
Objects, etc. 10/21/95
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Mobile Code -- a comparison of a number of languages for mobile
code, including Java, safe-Tcl, Python, Scheme48, Obliq, LogicWare,
and others. 10/21/95
- Edify Corporation is a small Santa
Clara software company which markets Electronic Workforce, "an
interactive service platform used to create and manage applications
incorporating World Wide Web, voice response, fax and electronic mail
capabilities. Based on advanced software agent technology, the
Electronic Workforce provides a flexible, robust environment to
quickly and cost-effectively bridge the gap between customers and
traditional information systems. The Electronic Workforce is deployed
at more than 500 sites worldwide as a strategic solution to increase
service and productivity within customer service, human resource and
other organizations in financial services, manufacturing, technology,
transportation, education and utility sectors." 10/20/95
- New documentation on the Loral/UMBC KQML Agent
Technology Software . 10/20/95
- Crystaliz Inc. offers LogicWare(TM) a software
package that uses the KQML protocol with SIMPLE (MIT Scheme + objects
+ rules). A free alpha copy is available for evaluation and
research. It is a source distribution and can be compiled to execute
on most UNIX platforms (e.g., Sun OS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.3, OSF 1.x,
HP-UX), Mac OS, MS-Windows, MS-DOS, and MS-NT platforms. If
interested, send a message to Sankar Virdhavriswaran (sankar@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu)
10/20/95
- Diane Weiss dw@gamble.mitre.org at MITRE has used
KQML to build a
distributed application that retrieves data on "global temperature
and salinity" in response to a user query. 10/20/95
- The Inter-Language
Unification system (ILU) is a multi-language object interface
system developed at Xerox PARC. The object interfaces provided by ILU
hide implementation distinctions between different languages, between
different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can
be used as a substrate to build multi-agent systems. 10/18/95
- ARCHON
(ARchitecture for Cooperative Heterogeneous ON-line systems),
Europe's largest DAI project devised a general-purpose architecture,
software framework, and methodology used in a number of real world
industrial domains.10/7/95
- World Scientific
Series in Computer Science - Vol. 43: Cooperation in Industrial
Multi-Agent Systems, N. R. Jennings , 1994, 200 pages, ISBN:
981-02-1652-1; , Price: US$38, #28 10/7/95
- Intelligent
Agents - Theories, Architectures, and Languages, edited by Michael
Wooldridge and Nicholas
R. Jennings. Published in January 1995 by Springer-Verlag as
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 890. ISBN
3-540-58855-8. 403pp. Includes index. Price DM 86,00 softback. 10/7/95
-
First IEEE Metadata Conference, 16 - 18 April 1996, NOAA
Auditorium, Silver Spring, Maryland. 10/6/95
- General Magic is holding a developers conference on October 29-31
in San Jose. There is a press release
and a detailed description of the conference schedule,
which will include plenary sessions and three parallel tracks -- one
on Magic Cap, one on Telescript and a third on Marketing issues.
10/4/95
- The Oz Programming
System offers a concurrent constraint programming language
designed for applications that require complex symbolic computations,
organization into multiple agents, and soft real-time control. DFKI
Oz is an interactive implementation of Oz with a full programming
environment including object-oriented interface to Tcl/Tk and powerful
interoperability features. Applications DFKI Oz has already been used
for include simulations, multi-agent systems, natural language
processing, virtual reality, graphical user interfaces, scheduling,
placement problems, and configuration.10/4/95
- The
Agent Universe a list maintained by Dragomir R. Radev,
radev@cs.columbia.edu. 10/3/95
-
FLAIRS-96 Track On Information Interchange, Key West, FL, May 96
(Submission deadline 10/16/95). 10/3/95
- ROBOLEARN-96:
An International Workshop on Learning for Autonomous Robots, held
in conjunction with FLAIRS-96,
Key West FL, May 19-20, 1996. 10/3/95.
- Papers and more from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium: Lessons
Learned from Implemented Software Architectures for Physical
Agents. 10/3/95.
- Infomaster is a
virtual information system done by the Stanford logic group. It
allows users to access a variety of heterogeneous, distributed
information from multiple perspectives. 10/3/95
- The BBC is running a program on radio 4 called `The Network'
which looks interesting. What? Having trouble picking this up on
your car radio? Well, as luck would have it, transcripts
are being put up on the web. Check out the first
program which is on intelligent agent technology... "Well,
tonight we're testing the IQ of intelligent agents, asking if our
faith in the infallibility of machines is misplaced, and trying to
discover if the information technology revolution is reaching all
parts of societ." 10/3/95.