What's new with 
Agents, KQML and Knowledge Sharing
 February 1996 
 UMBC Agent Web 
-  Paper: Michael P. Wellman,  The
Economic Approach to Artificial Intelligence, ACM Computing
Surveys Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, September 1995. 
2/28/96
-  Group:
Andersen Consulting has a new web page which describes their ongoing
intelligent agents
research.  The page gives short descriptions of their projects, as
well as one-page "thought-piece" articles on our projects for a
mass-market audience.  Current projects include:
-  InfoFinder: A system that learns a user's information interests
from sample liked and disliked documents, and proactively presents new
information matching those interests from a variety of on-line
sources.
-  ContactFinder: A system that lives on a bulletin board
discussion, remembering who the key contacts are in different areas
and answering questions with referrals.
-  BargainFinder: A system for real-time comparison price shopping
on the Internet.
-  NewsFinder: A system that finds news and other information for
personalized ubiquitous delivery based on a user's interests,
schedule, and work context.
 2/26/96
-  Workshop: 
Workshop Comparing Reactive (ALife-ish) and Intentional Agents,
Part of the Third  Australian Complex
Systems Conference, Thursday 19th July, 1996, Albury, Australia.
 2/26/96
-   Software: General Magic
announced the availability of a free pre-release version of its
Telescript(TM)  Active Web
Tools, a tool kit for developing active, personalized services for
the World Wide Web using agent technology.  Until March 1, users can
order a free pre-release CD-ROM version of Active Web Tools from
General Magic's web site (http://www.genmagic.com/awt) or by calling
408-774-4043.  2/26/96
-  Resource:  Cognitive Agent
Architectures pages.  2/22/96 
  
-  Resource: Leon Sterling's  Agents Lab Home
Page at the University of Melbourne.  2/13/96 
-  Paper: Donald McKay, Jon Pastor, Rbon McEntire and Tim Finin,
 An architecture
for information agents, in "Advanced Planning Technology",
(ed. Tate,A.), The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA., USA, May 1996, ISBN
0-929280-98-0.  2/13/96 
-  Workshop:  International
Workshop on Flexible Query-Answering Systems, FQAS'96, Roskilde
University, Denmark, May 22-24, 1996.  2/10/96
  
-  Workshop: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Object
Management Group (OMG) are sponsoring the  Joint W3C/OMG
Workshop ON Distributed Objects AND Mobile Code on June 24-25,
1996 in Boston MA.  It will be aimed at extending web and object
technologies to provide a richer global infrastructure for
applications like electronic commerce, enterprise integration, digital
libraries, concurrent engineering, and collaboration.  One page
position papers are required by March 11 for participation in the
workshop. 2/7/96
-  Conference: 
Workshop MASSIM-96: Multiagent Systems and Simulation , March
5--6, 1996, University of Ulm, Germany.  2/4/96 
  
-  Conference:  Petri Nets for
Multi-Agent Systems and Groupware, July 9-12 1996, Lille,
France. An invited session will be held within the conference on
Computational Engineering in Systems Application (CESA'96)
co-organised by IMACS and IEEE-SMC, July 9-12 1996, LilLe, France. 
2/4/96  
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