August 1995

• Silk - A New Internet Resource Discovery Client Silk, Bunyip's new Internet client program, allows you to access and search for Internet information without having to know where to look or how to look. It is based on the notion of a Uniform Resource Agent or URA. 8/29/95

July 1995

• Major reorganization.

March 24, 1995

• New group URL: The DAI group at The Hebrew University (HUJI)

February 22, 1995

• Mail archive of the agents@sun.com mailing list.

February 16, 1995

• New funding program: The Office of Naval Research solicits proposals to conduct research on the topic of intelligent software agents as part of ONR's Tactical Picture Agent initiative . Proposals are due 7 April 1995. Questions may be directed to Dr. Michael O. Shneier at shneiem@onrhq.onr.navy.mil.

February 10, 1995

• New event: ICDP '96: IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms -- Client/Server and Beyond: DCE, CORBA, ODP & Advanced Distributed Applications. Dresden, Germany February 27 - March 1, 1996.

February 3, 1994

• New paper: Modelling Interaction in Agent Systems, Angela Dalmonte and Mauro Gaspari, University of Bologna, submitted to IJCAI-95.
• New book: 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. 407pp. Includes index. Price DM 86,00 softback.

January 27, 1995

• New event: SIGCOMM95 Workshop on Middleware, 28-29 August 1995, Cambridge, MA

January 21, 1995

• New related project: The Knowledgeable Community Project is usinf KQML, KIF and sharable ontologies to help develop Large-scale knowledge-base systems. It is located at Nishida lab, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.
• New paper: Nishida, and Hideaki Takeda: Towards the Knowledgeable Community, in: Proceedings International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very-Large Scale Knowledge Bases '93 (KBKS '93), pp. 157--166, 1993.
• New paper: Hideaki Takeda, Kenji Iino, and Toyoaki Nishida. Agent communication with multiple ontologies. In Proceedings of FGCS'94 Workshop on Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge-Bases, Tokyo, December 1994. ICOT. pages 111-124. A postscript version is also avaiilable.

January 13, 1995

• New event: IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference On Information System Development For Decentralised Organizations, Trondheim, Norway, 21-23 August, 1995, Submission Date: 10 February, 1995. Selected topics:
  • Information systems for supporting cooperation between organizations, e.g., electronic commerce
  • Methods and tools for decentralised information systems engineering
  • Methods and tools for establishing decentralised information systems
• New paper: COOL - A Language for Describing Coordination in Multi Agent Systems, Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark Fox, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. (mihai@ie.utoronto.ca, (416)987-0910).

January 11, 1995

• New paper: Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages, James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, and Tim Finin. A postscript version is also available.

January 8, 1995

• Input sought for KQML95
• A page on the OpenDoc(tm) architecture which represents Apple's approach toward open architecture, designed to integrate software and enable sharing across multiple computer platforms; providing users with a new level of computing power, flexibility, and ease of use.
• A new event: IJCAI-95 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages , Montreal, Quebec, August 1995.
• New event: ICC '95, Intelligent Computer Communication, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29-30 June 1995

December 19, 1994

• Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing, To be held in conjunction with IJCAI95, Aug 19-21, 1995, (probably 19-20, to be confirmed), Montreal, Canada
• Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages , Call for Papers - An IJCAI-95 Workshop, Montreal, Quebec, August 1995.

December 13, 1994

• New event: AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval, AAAI Fall Symposium MIT, Nov. 10-12, 1995.(Paper submission date: April 14, 1995)

October 21, 1994

• Added a page for Agent communication and programming languages and some information on AKL.

October 18, 1994

• Added an archive for the MAAMAW mailing list (Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World)
• Added a page for conferences, workshops, seminars, etc which are relevant to KQML and software agents.
• added some information on Koalatalk (an ICE-based light-weight Message Bus) to the toolTalk directory.

October 3, 1994

• Added -- KQML as an Agent Communication Language, Tim Finin, Richard Fritzson Don McKay and Robin McEntire. To appear in The Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94), ACM Press, November 1994. An html version of this paper without the figures is also available.

September 24, 1994

• Added the KQML What's new page which will contain a dated list of significant changes to the KQML information on the web. These changes will also be mailed to the KQML mailing list.

• Added a new paper -- A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agents , Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, To appear in the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94), November 1994.

• Added some material sent by Chris Beck of the University of Toronto's Enterprise Integration Laboratory, including:
  • The Information Agent: An Infrastructure Agent Supporting Collaborative Enterprise Architectures , by M. Barbuceanu and M.S.Fox, Proc. Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp 112-117.
  • Tove Manual (TOronto Virtual Enterprise)
  • Information on the University of Toronto's Enterprise Integration Laboratory (EIL) .
  • UofT KQML API -- A user's guide for a KQML API developed by Chris Beck at the University of Toronto, Industrial Engineering Department, Enterprise Integration Laboratory.