Communities in MAS Domain

Agent Society
AgentLink: A Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
FIPA Association

Conferences, Workshops, etc.

Conferences

Agents / KQML Calendar (List at UMBC Agent Web)
Conferences (List at BotSpot (r))


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Agent's World 98
Agents'97 (1st)
Agents'98 (2nd)
Agents'99 (3rd)


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ICMAS'95 (1st)
ICMAS'96 (2nd)
ICMAS'98 (3rd)


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PAAM'96 (1st)
PAAM'97 (2nd)
PAAM'98 (3rd)
PAAM'99 (4th)


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IAT'99 (1st)


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Autonomous Decentralized Systems (International Simposium, ISADS'97)
Computer Simulation and the Social Sciences (International Conference, ICCS&SS'97)
Hungarian Conference on Agent-Based Computing (HUNABC'98)
Intelligent User Interfaces (1997 International Conference)
Intelligent User Interfaces (1998 International Conference)
Intelligent User Interfaces (1999 International Conference)


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Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
KAW'98 Accepted Submissions

International Workshops

ATAL'96(3th International Workshop at ECAI'96)
ATAL'97 (4th International Workshop preceding AAAI'97)
ATAL'98 (5th International Workshop at Agent's World 98)
ATAL'99 (6th International Workshop preceding AAAI'99)


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CIA'97 (1st International Workshop)
CIA'98 (2nd International Workshop)
CIA'99 (3rd International Workshop)


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IATA'96 (1st International Workshop at ECAI'96)
IATA'98 (2nd International Workshop at Agents' World'98)


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MA'97 (1st International Workshop at ISADS'97)
MA'98 (2nd International Workshop)


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CAM'98 (Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents International Workshop)


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MAAMAW'96 (7th European Workshop)
MAAMAW97 (8th European Workshop)


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Transportable Agents (1st Dartmouth Workshop)
Transportable Agents (2nd Dartmouth Workshop)


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Intelligent Adaptive Agents (AAAI'96 Workshop)
Adaptation,Co-evolution and Learning in MAS (AAAI'96 Spring Symposium)
Multiagent Learning (AAAI'97 Workshop)
Machine Learning and Human-Agent Interaction (HAI'97)
Agents in Interaction (Workshop at Agents '98)
Agents with Adjustable Autonomy (AAAI'99 Spring Simposium)


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Agent-oriented Approaches to Knowledge Engineering: (KAW'98 track)
Argumentation for Agent Communication(Workshop at ECAI'96)
From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation (Symposium at EMCSR '98)
Intelligent Agents in Information and Process management (Workshop at KI'98)
Intelligent Virtual Environments (ECAI 98 Workshop)
Interaction Agents (Workshp at AVI'98)
Software Agents (HICSS-32 Mini-Track, 1999)
Software Tools for Developing Agents (Workshop at AAAI'98)

Books, Journals, Papers, Documents, etc.

Books

Software agents books (P. Fingar's List)
Agent Technology (N.R. Jennings and M.J. Wooldridge)
AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds: Programming Intelligent VR in C++ (M. Watson)
Bots and Other Internet Beasties (J. Williams)
Constructing Intelligent Agents with Java: A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications (J.P. Bigus, J. Bigus) - Amazon.com page
Constructing Intelligent Agents with Java: A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications (J.P. Bigus, J. Bigus) - Wiley page
Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems : Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications ( M. Knapik and J. Johnson)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Volume I (M. Huhns)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Volume II (L. Gaser and M. Huhns)
Foundations of Knowledge Systems with Applications to Databases and Agents (G. Wagner)
Internet Agents : Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and 'Bots (F. Cheong)
Programming and Deploying Java(tm) Mobile Agents with Aglets (Danny Lange, Mitsuru Oshima)
The Design of Intelligent Agents (J.P. Mėller)


Journals

AI Magazine Special Issue on Intelligent Systems on the Internet
Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue on Principles of Multi-Agent Systems
Applied Intelligence Journal Special Issue on Intelligent Adaptive Agents
Applied AI Journal Special Issue on Animated Interface Agents: Making them Intelligent
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI Special Issue on Learning on DAI Systems
Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Multiagent Learning
PC Magazine: Searching the Net - HotBot


Papers, etc.

Papers on Agents Available On-Line (List at UMBC Agent Web)
Knowledge Sharing Papers


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Wooldridge's Publications
Multi-Agent Systems Methodologies and Applications (2nd Australian Workshop on DAI, 1996)
Analysis and Verification of Multiple-Agent Languages (LOMAPS Workshop, 1996)
Survey of Information Retrieval
Agent on, by and for the World Wide Web
Comparing KA using RDR to KA using PCP
Ontobroker
Agent Communication with Multiple Ontologies
The CYC® Technology
Chapter : Ontology based document understanding
Lightweight Deductive Databases on the World-Wide Web


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Buffalo Ontology Site
IICA: An Ontology-based Internet Navigation System TextAnalyst: automatic semantic texts analyzer
Information Seeking and Giving
Conceptual Indexing/Retrieval
Agent-Based Engineering, The Web, and Intelligence (C.J. Petrie)
KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange
The Nature of Intelligent Decision Support Systems (A.M. Gadomski)
Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice (M. Wooldridge and N.R. Jennings)
Long Tutorial Notes on Software Agents (P. Maes)
Software Agents: An Overview (H.S. Nwana)


Documents

Introduction to Agents (UMBC Agent Web)


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Agents and Intelligence (A.M. Gadomski)
FIPA's Agent Definition
Is It An Agent or Just A Program? (S. Franklin and A. Graesser)
Software Agents, what are they ? (Mark C.)
What Are Agents? (Kinetoscope, Inc.)
What is an agent? (Hebrew University)
What Is...an intelligent agent (whatis.com, Inc.)
What's an Agent? (L. Foner)


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Agent-Related Bibliography Databases (M. Wooldridge's List)
Bibliographies on Agents and related topics (List at UMBC Agent Web)
Bibliography on Intelligent Agents & MAS (M. Wooldridge)
Intelligent Software Agent Bibliography (S. Gant)


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UMBC AgentsNews
Agent Related Web Pages
Information Gathering Proceedings
Aglets Information (IBM Aglets Workbench)

Projects, Companies, Resources, etc.

Projects

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR)
Knowledge Space Project Home Page
Projects at AAII - Australian AI Institute
Projects at IBM
Projects at IIIA - AI Research Institute at Spain
Internet Softbot Research Projects at University of Washington
Software Agents at Vrije Universiteit (Brussels)
Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization of Web Resources at AT&T
Internet Consultant Project at University of Hawaii
LIRA Demo at Stanford University
Voyager at ObjectSpace, Inc.
Web Browser Intelligence at IBM
WebWatcher at Carnegie Mellon University
WEBSOM - A novel SOM-based approach to free-text mining
Agent Building Shell at University of Toronto (Canada)
BB1 (The Blackboard Control Architecture) at Stanford University
Intelligent Software Agents at Carnegie Mellon University
MAS for Information Discovery at University of Nijmegen (Netherlands)
MAS Tool at Univrsity of Madrid (Spain)
Open Agent Architecture (OAA) at SRI International.
Agent Construction Tools (List at Reticular Systems, Inc)
Agent Languages (List at Open Sesame, Inc.)
Agent Programming and Scripting Languages (List at UMBC Agent Web)
Agent-Oriented Programming at Stanford University
Guidelines for Robot Writers (M. Koster)
InfoSpiders (F. Menczer and R. Belew)
The Web Robots Pages (M. Koster)
Bringing Distributed Objects to the WWW (R. I. Resnick)
Programming Mobile Agents in Java (D.B. Lange and M. Oshima)
Aglets Workbench at IBM
Odyssey at General Magic
Agent Building Environment at IBM
KSE - Knowledge Sharing Effort at UMBC Agent Web


Companies

Quarterdeck
WebCompass
Agent Knowledgebase Associates Inc.
Agents Technologies Corporation
AgentBuilder
Autonomy, Inc.
Blackboard Technology Group, Inc.
General Magic
Intelligent Reasoning Systems


Resources

Newsgroups and Mailing Lists (List of mailing lists at Open Sesame, Inc.)


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AgentNews Webletter (T. Finin)
Agent InfoSpace Newsletter at Argo Technologies, Inc.
BotSpot Newsletter at BotSpot, Inc.


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DAI-list (M. Huhns)
Hypertexted DAI-list (O. Shehory)
MAAMAW Blackboard (Y. Demazeau)


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Aglets Workbench Mailing List at IBM
Interlingua Mail at Stanford University
JAT Mailing List at Stanford University
Mobility Mailing List (K. Kramer et al)
Ontolingua Mail at Stanford University
KQML Mailing List (T. Finnin)
Software Agents Mailing List (T. Finin)

Groups, Peoples, etc.

Groups

Academic Resources (List at Open Sesame, Inc.)
Agent-Related Groups (List at UMBC Agent Web)
Intelligent Agents Center of Competence at IBM
Intelligent Agents Group at Trinity College Dublin
Intelligent Software Agents at Carnegie Mellon University
Intelligent Software Agents for the Internet at University of Washington
Ishida Lab at Kioto University
MAS Group at University of Maastricht (Netherlands)
Software Agents Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Peoples

People Working on Agents (R. Becket's List)
Tim Finin
Barbara Hayes-Roth
Carl Hewitt
Nicholas R. Jennings
Mike Wooldridge