November 1995

• Papers from the CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop are available. This workshop will be held at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, in Baltimore, Maryland in December 1 and 2.
• Personal Web Search Application Developed , Newsbytes News Network story, November 13, 1995, By Martyn Williams. 11/28/95
• Notes on General Magic's First Developers Conference, by Chris Derossi .11/26/95
• 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
• James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, and Tim Finin, Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language, in Intelligent Agents Volume II -- Proceedings of the 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller and M. Tambe (eds). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 1996. 11/7/95
• Agents, Services, and Market - How do they Integrate. Michael Merz. The paper focuses on the aspect of extending COSM - a flexible CORBA-DII-based Client/Server infrastructure - in order to serve as an agent platform. Petri nets are used as a control flow specification for agents. 11/4/95
• General Magic announced the Open Telescript Initiative and has released the Telescript Development Environment (TDE) which is free and can be downloaded via the web. They say " Telescript is an object-oriented, remote programming language. It is a platform that enables the creation of active, distributed network applications. There are three simple concepts to the language: agents, places and "go". Agents "go" to places, where they interact with other agents to get work done on a user's behalf. Agents are in fact mobile programs capable of transporting themselves from place to place in a Telescript network. The language is implemented by the Telescript engine. The Telescript engine is a multitasking interpreter that integrates onto an operating system through a programming interface called the Telescript API. The Telescript engine is a server implementation." 11/4/95
• Cooperative Information Agents - DAI meets Database Systems (CIA-97). February 1997. Computer Science Department, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 11/4/95
• Guideware announced three products for designing, deploying and managing mobile software agents. MORE. 11/1/95
• The Agents of Madison County 11/1/95.