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Is it an Agent,
or just a Program?
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Is it an Agent, or just a Program? A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents by Stan Franklin and Art Graesser. The
advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from
programs in general. Here we propose a formal
definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program.
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Jasper: Communicating
Information Agents
for WWW
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Jasper: Communicating Information Agents for the WWW by
John Davies, Richard Weeks and Mike Revett of BT
Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom; discusses a
distributed system of intelligent agents for performing
information tasks over the Internet WWW on behalf of a
user or community of users with descriptions of how agents
are used to store, retrieve, summarize and inform other
agents about information found on the WWW.
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Keys to the Commercial Success of Data Mining |
Keys to the Commercial Success of DataMining offers Data
Mining Tutorials, White Papers and working notes from Data
Mining workshops.
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KnowBot Programming
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KnowBot Programming: System Support for Mobile Agents by
Jeremy Hylton, Ken Manheimer, Fred L. Drake Jr., Barry
Warsaw, Roger Massee and Guido van Rossum. KnowBot
programs are mobile agents intended for use in widely
distributed systems like the Internet. They describe their
experiences implementing security, process migration, and
inter-process communication in a prototype system
implemented using the object-oriented programming language
Python.
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Languages for Dublin Core
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Languages for Dublin Core by Thomas Baker discusses how
Dublin Core is being adapted now for more specialized
uses, from government information and legal deposit to
museum informatics and electronic commerce.
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Let Your Bot
Shop Til it
Drops
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Let Your Bot Shop Til it Drops by Liz Enbysk, Managing
Editor ZDNet Anchordesk, discusses the latest shopping
bots and evaluates BotSpot's Shopping Bots classification
database.
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Lost In
Cyberspace
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Lost in CyberSpace from the Technology and Business
section of the July 1998 issue of The Scientific American
discusses how scientists look for better ways to search
the Web. A system called Automatic Resource Compiler (ARC)
may hold the answer for faster and far more accurate
search results.
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Maintenance Web
Robots Thesis
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Maintenance Web Robots Thesis by Martin Wacks describes
web robots which help in the maintenance problem of web
servers, then describes search strategies, the robots use
and finally offers a model of such an agent. It discusses,
describes, evaluates and compares three web maintenance
robots: MOMspider, Webxref and WebWalker. The conclusions
offers some ideas of helpful tasks, which could be
fulfilled by such agents without to much additional
effort.
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Make Sure your
Site Gets Indexed
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Make Sure Your Site Gets Indexed by Todd Elliott with
Webmonkey - Geek Talk discusses bots and crawlers that
index web sites for search engines and how to prepare your
metatags for their perusal.
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Make Way for
Intelligent Agents
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Make Way for Intelligent Agents by Lawrence M. Fisher of
Booz Allen & Hamilton's Strategy & Business discusses new
software programs that are now available that act as
"smart filters" on the information superhighway. They can
sort through mountains of data and find answers to
specific questions. And they can learn. Their promise is
to make the "horizontal" organization even flatter.
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Man Machines
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Man Machines towards the understanding of semantics within
an artificially intelligent community. Dave Walsh assesses
the progress of research into artificial intelligence
(AI), chess computers and conversation machines.
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Meta-Search
Engines
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Meta-Search Engines by the Teaching Library Internet
Workshops at University of California, Berkeley,
California discusses: What are Meta-Search Engines?, How
Do I Choose Which One to Use? and a Table Covering the
Features of Recommended Meta-Search Engines.
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Mining the Web:
Techniques for Bridging
the
Gap between Content
Producers and Consumers
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The Internet is an enormous, chaotic mixture of
information and disinformation, in which the consumer
finds difficulty in traversing, and the content producer
finds difficulty in being heard. The Archaeology Guide for
The Mining Company(R) discusses the background and
gate-keeping techniques used to "mine the Web". The
journal article is on First Monday by K. Kris Hirst.
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MIRL Lab
Agent-Related Publications
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Multimedia Information Research Lab (MIRL), University of
Ottawa, offers a site of Intelligent Agents and
Agents-Related Publications.
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Mobile Agent
Technology Enabling
the Virtual
Enterprise: A
Pattern for
Database Query
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This paper by Todd Papaioannou and John Edwards proposes
the notion that Mobile Agent Technology can be a
significant aid to enterprise agility, particularly where
distribution of information is a feature, as in virtual
enterprises. The implications of using Java and its
facilities for database connectivity (JDBC) together with
mobile agent environments are discussed before a model to
fulfill the requirements of the manufacturing Sales/Order
process is proposed. The model used in the process has
been produced with data collected from an industrial case
study.
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Mobile Agents and
Framework Models
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Mobile Agents and Framework Models by Guy W.
Lecky-Thompson discusses the communications,
transportation and data storage/extraction demands of
mobile agents and the framework models to create these
entities.
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Modelling Socially
Intelligent Agents
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Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents by Bruce Edmonds
discusses in detail agents capability to distinguish,
identify, model and address other agents, either
individually or in groups.
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Multiagent Systems:
A Survey from a
Machine Learning
Perspective
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Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning
Perspective by P. Stone and M. Veloso discusses Multiagent
Systems (MAS) and a survey intended to serve as an
introduction to the field and as an organizational
framework.
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Multi-Agents, Agent Modeling, Teamwork and Intelligent Agents
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Multi-Agents, Agents Modeling, Teamwork and Intelligent Agents selected publications by Milind Tambe.
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MusicBot Scours Web
for Pirated Tunes
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MusicBot Scours Web for Pirated Tunes by Maria Seminerio
discusses BMI's latest roBOT that sniffs out sound files
so BMI officials can check their licensing status.
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Network-aware
Mobile Programs
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Investigates network-aware mobile programs, programs that can use mobility
as a tool to adapt to variations in
network characteristics.
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NeuroProse
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This directory contains technical reports and papers as a
public service to the conectionist and neural network
scientific community which has an organized mailing list.
Researchers may place electronic versions of their
preprints in this directory, announce availability, and
other interested researchers can rapidly retrieve and
print the postscripts.
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Office97 or
Office 1984?
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Office97 — or Office 1984 by Andrew Leonard discusses
moving into Microsoft's suite and Big Brother Paper Clip
will be watching you.
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On Cooperation in
Multi-Agent Systems
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On Cooperation in Multi-Agents Systems by J.E. Doran, S.
Franklin, N.R. Jennings and T.J. Norman discusses
cooperation as a key concept that differentiates
multi-agent systems from other related disciplines such as
distributed computing, object-oriented systems and expert
systems.
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Paying Their Way
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Paying Their Way - Commercial Digital Libraries for the
21st Century by Innes A. Ferguson and Michael J.
Wooldridge of Zuno, Ltd. Agents Systems Group. This D-Lib
Magazine article discusses applications for the serious
commercial use and research for Digital Libraries in the
very near future and how agents will be a vital force in
the collection, management, analysis and interpretation of
various information sources.
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Precision Among
Internet Search
Engines
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Precision Among Internet Search Engines: An Earth Sciences
Case Study by Lisa Wishard of the Earth and Mineral
Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State University discusses
how three representative queries related to the earth
sciences were used to evaluate the precision of 37
Internet search engines. The structure of three main types
of Internet search engines and strategies for improving
search results are discussed.
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ProQuest Direct
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ProQuest Direct(r) is UMI's premier online information
service. It provides powerful, convenient search and
retrieval, right from your desktop, to one of the world's
largest collections of information, including summaries of
articles from over 5000 publications, with many in full
text, full image, format.
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Pushy Sales Help
Is Now Online
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Pushy Sales Help Is Now Online from Wired News Report
discusses the avatars and chatterbots in the online sales
force.
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Recommendation Systems/
Collaborative Filtering
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Recommendation Systems/Collaborative Filtering by Michael
Mattis and Jeff Ubois of Upside Today discusses the latest
happenings in the agent based recommendation system and
collaborative filtering markets.
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Researcher Develops
More Discerning Web
Search Tool
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Researcher Develops More Discerning Web Search Tool by
John Yaukey of the Gannett News Services discusses
Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) developed by Cornell
University scientist Jon Kleinberg.
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Reusable Environment for
Task Structured
Intelligent Network Agents
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Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent
Network Agents (RETSINA) framework is being used to
develop distributed collections of intelligent software
agents that cooperate asynchronously to perform
goal-directed information retrieval and information
integration in support of performing a variety of decision
making tasks.
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Robot-Driven Search Engine Evaluation
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Robot-Driven Search Engine Evaluation Overview by Gillian
Westra gives a detailed study including Overview,
Literature Review, Search Engine Comparisons, Evaluating
Documents Found, Referencing Documents Found and Summary
Report.
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Robots in the Web:
Threat or Treat?
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Robots in the Web: Threat or Treat? by Martijn Kostner
investigates the advantages and disadvantages of robots,
with an emphasis on robots used for resource discovery.
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ROBOTS Invade
the Net!
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ROBOTS Invade the Net! by Mike Wooldridge of cnet.com
discusses Spiders on your DeskTop: Search Bots; Your Own
Personal Shopper: Shop Bots; Someone To Talk To: Chat
Bots; and Downloads and Resources.
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Roll Your Own
Search Engine
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Roll Your Own Search Engine by Brian Slesinsky discusses
the creation of your own personal search engine to search
your site with pages on deciding on a data structure,
building the bot/crawler and building the search CGI.
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Scanning The Business Environment with Intelligent Software Agents
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Scanning The Business Environment with Intelligent
Software Agents by Shuhua Liu of the Institute for
Advanced Management Systems Research discusses the
creation of a multi-agent support system than scans and
interprets the business environment and the tasks and
structures of the agents are defined.
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