September 1996
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This file is a list of items added to the UMBC agents pages this month
and is in maintained chronological order. Past months:
October 1996,
September 1996,
August 1996,
July 1996,
June 1996,
May 1996,
April 1996,
March 1996,
February 1996,
January 1996,
December 1995,
November 1995,
October 1995,
September 1995,
August 1995 and before.
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Symposium on ontological engineering
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Symposium on ontological engineering, AAAI 1997 Spring
Symposium Series, March 24 - 26, 1997, Stanford University,
California. This symposium will contribute to the continuum of
current research, by focusing on the practical aspects of ontology
development and use including tools, methodologies, and engineering
practice. This is a symposium rather than a mini-conference. We
solicit papers (see below), but at the symposium itself the emphasis
will be on sharing experiences with ample time for all participants to
contribute to the discussion. Submission deadline October
25. 9/26/96
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Personal AltaVista search engine
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From Netsurfer Digest: Vol. 02, #30 (HTML)
"Are you enamored of Web Search Engines? Wouldn't it be great if you
could search your own documents the same way? You can, with Digital's
"AltaVista Search My Computer Private eXtension" free beta
software for Win95. Using the same technology as Digital's excellent
public engine, you can index and search your hard disk. The software
also recognizes both Microsoft Exchange and Eudora mailboxes, which
can be handy if you are using Eudora Light with its lame one-at-a-time
search capabilities. Results are displayed in a table that lets take a
quick peek or launch an application. The same desktop interface
allows you to search the Web without launching your browser. The
downside to this is the huge index files, which appear to be about
half the size of the indexed data. If you've got the spare space,
though, it's worth it - this baby is fast."
9/26/96
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Webcatcher
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Webcatcher
is a free service which emails subscribers weekly lists of new URL's
which are relevant to their interest chosen from a fixed set of about
100 possible topics. 9/15/96
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Organic programming
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The Cooperative Architecture Research Group of ETL has released GAEA, Version 1 -- An Organic
Programming Language. ``Organic programming'' is a new software
methodology modeled after the flexibility of organic systems such as
plants and animals. It was developed at ETL with the goal of
providing mechanisms for situated inference by software agents that
perform computations in cooperation with each other. 9/6/96
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Infospheres Infrastructure
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The Caltech Infospheres
Infrastructure (II) is a distributed system framework that is
implemented in Java. It provides a generic object model and a variety
of messaging models: asynchronous, synchronous, and remote procedure
calls. This system is freely available so that researchers and
developers can develop lightweight distributed systems that can
leverage open standards and the world wide web. Caltech is developing
methodologies that take advantage of the system's design so that
reasoning on entire distributed systems is feasible. With these
methodologies, one can say something about the reliability,
completeness, and robustness of a distributed system as a whole. The
II is being extended to support interoperability with other
distributed system models and to utilize emerging standards in the
Java domain. Because the system is designed and implemented in a
generic manner, the ideas, algorithms, and theories developed within
the II framework are directly applicable to existing distributed
systems and frameworks. 9/4/96
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Alife Games
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Artificial Life Games Homepage edited by L. Pagliarini, Institute
of Psychology of the C.N.R. (National Research Council) in Rome,
Italy. "Welcome to the Artificial Life Games Homepage that contains
informations about Games developed by the means of ALife
techniques. You can find all links and addresses of people involved in
this kind of activity. Moreover, some good links to people, all around
the world, that work on ALife Demos (and ALife in general) can be
found." 9/3/96
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