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Showing Robots
the Door
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Showing Robots the Door...Do you have concerns about
robots crawling your site? Are they overloading your web
server? Do you know what they are indexing? Can you
control them? Ian Peacock describes the Robots Exclusion
Protocol and reports on an analysis of the use of this
protocol by UK Universities and Colleges. This article
appears in the Web, and not the print, version of Ariadne.
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Siebel Says Agents
Will Spur I-Commerce
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Siebel Says Agents Will Spur I-Commerce by Matthew Nelson
of Info World Electric. Siebel predicted that Agent
technology, created using Java, ActiveX, or other
languages, will become more complex and powerful as homes
and businesses gain more computing power and
higher-bandwidth connections to the Internet. We see
incredible advances over the next 10 to 12 months.
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Smart Rooms
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Smart Rooms act like invisible butlers. Thet have cameras,
microphones, and other sensors, and use these inputs to
try to interpret what people are doing in order to help
them. The Smart Room can provide an unencumbered
user-interface to a virtual environment. Application
environments are detailed.
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Smarter Searches
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Smarter Searches: Why Search Engines Are *Again* the Web's
Next Big Thing by Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk discusses the
Internet's next big revolution and thing.....Search and
Navigation sites. Analysts and investors swear that search
engines and bots are once again poised to achieve
spectacular successes.
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Software Agents: A Review
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Software Agents: A Review is an extremely comprehensive
review covering the latest developments in software agents
presented by professional staff members of Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland and Broadcom Eireann Research, Ltd. This
review surveyed the diverse literature on agent
technology, and more specifically within the three
research areas of Intelligent User Interfaces, Distributed
Agent Technology and Mobile Agent Technology.
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Software Agents Group
Publications
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Publications from the Software Agents Group of the MIT
Media Lab offers a comprehensive resource of publications
on agents, applications and techniques in modeling
Autonomous Characters and modeling Software Agents.
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Software Agents:
A Review
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Software Agents: A Review - is an extremely comprehensive
review of Software Agents prepared by Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland and Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd.
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Software Agents:
An Overview
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Software Agents: An Overview by Hyacinth S. Nwana largely
reviews software agents and also contains some strong
opinions that are not necessarily widely accepted by the
agent community.
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Stars, Extras, and Other Agents on Parade
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Stars, Extras, and Other Agents on Parade by Kristi Coale
explains the interactivity that "characters" agents bring
to the World Wide Web.
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SuperQuery: Data
Mining for Everyone
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SuperQuery: Data Mining for Everyone by Ashraf Azmy
discusses the potential of data mining patterns and its
capabilities to ask specific questions without human
intervention.
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Survey of
Cognitive and Agent Architectures
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The objective of this document is to provide some
rational, structured access to an analysis of cognitive
and agent architectures. Twelve architectures have been
used for this preliminary analysis representing a wide
range of current architectures in artificial intelligence.
The aim of the project is to facilitate both an
understanding of current architectures and provide insight
to the development of future, improved intelligent agent
architectures.
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Syskill & Webert:
Identifying Interesting
Web Sites
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Syskill & Webert: Identifying Interesting Web Sites by
Michael Pazzini, Jack Muramatsu and Daniel Billsus,
discusses Syskill & Webert, a software agent that learns a
profile of a user's interest, and uses this profile to
identify interesting web pages in various ways.
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Taming the Wild,
Wild Web
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Taming the Wild, Wild Web by Richard V. Dragan and Andrew
Boscardin shows the future of the World Wide Web being
tamed with various agent technologies.
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Technology Futures for
the World Wide Web
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This paper by Derek Miers investigates the future needs of
business users in a world where the Web is radically
transforming the value chains of today.
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The Agent Building
Shell: Programming
Cooperative Enterprise Agents
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The Agent Building Shell: Programming Cooperative
Enterprise Agents by Mihai Barbuceanu of the Enterprise
Integration Laboratory discusses the development of an
Agent Building Shell that provides reusable languages and
services for agent construction, relieving developers from
the effort of building agents systems from scratch and
guaranteeing that essential interoperation, communication
and cooperation services will always be there to support
applications.
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The Building and Maintenance
of Robot Based
Internet Search Services
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The Building and Maintenance of Robot Based Internet
Search Services by T. Koch, A. Ardo, A. Brummer and S.
Lundberg. A review of current indexing and data collection
methods
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The Computation
and Language
E-Print Archive
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The Computation and Language E-Print Archive is a fully
automated electronic archive and distribution server for
papers on computational linguistics, natural-language
processing, speech processing and related fields.
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The Emerging
Digital Economy
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The Emerging Digital Economy report represents an initial
step by the Clinton Administration and the U.S. Department
of Commerce to better understand the effect of electronic
commerce on the economy. The Report presents both economic
analysis and case studies that paint a picture of the
importance of electronic commerce and information
technologies to the economy as a whole and to individual
sectors of the economy.
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The Future of
Search Engines
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The Future of Search Engines by Mark Frauenfelder
discusses new players and new technologies that will make
searching the Internet " a whole lot less painful ".
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The Internet, Intranets
and the AI Renaissance
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The Internet, Intranets and the AI Renaissance by Daniel
E. O'Leary of the University of Southern California
discusses that the virtually cost-free publication on the
World Wide Web has led to information overload. Artificial
Intelligence (AI), with its roots in knowledge
representation, is experiencing a renaissance as new tools
emerge to make the Web more tractable.
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The MetaCrawler Architecture
for Resource Aggregation
on the Web
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The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on
the Web by Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni discusses the
history of the MetaCrawler Softbot and its architecture
allowing it to navigate the world wide web and to scale
and adapt to a dynamic Internet.
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The Secret Life of
Intelligent Agents
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The Secret Life of Intelligent Agents: An Introduction — by Damien
Miller, describes that offline browsers and
products like Pointcast are just baby steps towards the
dream of harnessing your computer power to help win now
the Internet information overload. The next generation,
coming soon, will not just find, but filter key data for
you.
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The Work of Information Mediators:
A Comparison of Librarians and Intelligent Software Agents NEW
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Librarians long have been considered the experts in finding information.
But intelligent agents are playing an increasing roll in finding information on
the Web. This paper compares the two methods.
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There's an Ant
in My Phone
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There's an Ant in My Phone ... Would you let ants run the
digital superhighways of the future? Even if they were
smart little programs and getting smarter all the time?
This article discusses the latest developments.
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This Bot Babysits
Your Web Sites
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This Bot Babysits Your Web Sites by PC World discusses
Mind-It's free bot that monitors your favorite sites and
alerts you by e-mail of any change.
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Tough Room
for the 'Toons
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Tough Room for the 'Toons by Andrew Leonard. Despite the
boos and catcalls, Microsoft keeps sending its animated
helpers out into the spotlight to perform their artificial
intelligence tricks.
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Tutorial: Guide to
Effective Searching of
the Internet
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A comprehensive tutorial and guide to effective searching
of the Internet made up of 12 parts and covers all areas
from the very basic searching profiles to specialty
searches and filter utilizations.
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Using an Intelligent
Agent to Enhance
Search Engine Performance
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Using an Intelligent Agent to Enhance Search Engine
Performance by James Jansen in First Monday explores the
quantity of information available that is driving the need
for improved search and retrieval engines using
autonomous, intelligent agents.
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Using Bots
to Buy Books
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Using Bots to Buy Books by Jennifer Sullivan of Wired News
Business discusses the advent of Bots being used to
purchase books online and its potential affect on various
book merchants.
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Using Local Optimality Criteria
for Efficient Information
Retrieval with Redundant
Information Filters
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Using Local Optimality Criteria for Efficient Information
Retrieval with Redundant Information Filters by Neil C.
Rowe discusses information retrieval when the data, for
instance multimedia, is computationally expensive to
fetch. Interest is shown in using "information filters" to
considerably narrow the universe of possibilities before
retrieval. Special interest especially in redundant
information filters that save time over more general but
more costly filters.
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Using Versatile Agents
on High-Traffic
Web Sites
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A white paper by Kinetoscope discussing agent deployment
to add value to your web site by building 1 to 1
relationships.
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Web Crawlers
to Index Java
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Web Crawlers to Index Java by Dave Andrews discusses the
use of Bots to index Java on the World Wide Web.
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Web Site Continuation
of Lingo Sorcery
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Lingo Sorcery by Peter Small is a web continuation of his book Lingo Sorcery and new and exciting possibilities in
the design of Intranets, Web Objects and Intelligent Agents. United States residents download at this mirror
site.
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What About a "Bot"?
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"What About a Bot?" discusses the latest happenings in
commercebots and shoppingbots and how they will affect the
future of online shopping.
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What is an Intelligent Interface?
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What is an Intelligent Interface by Annika Woern discusses
the current understanding of Intelligent Interfaces as
they relate to the overall scheme of computers, artificial
intelligence and networking.
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What's an Agent, AnyWay?
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What's an Agent, AnyWay? by Lenny Foner is a sociological
case study describing Julia, a TinyMUD robot that has been
almost in constant use at several sites on the Internet
for the last several years.
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What's Wrong
with Internet Searching
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What's Wrong with Internet Searching by Annabel Pollock
and Andrew Hockley of the Human Factors Unit, BT
Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom is a paper that
argues that the model of searching for information on the
Web as used by many existing search engines does not meet
the needs of Internet-naive but PC-literate users.
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Who Will Create the MetaData for the Internet?
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Who Will Create the MetaData for the Internet? by Charles
F. Thomas and Linda S. Griffin examines the reasons why
major categories of information providers may not see
metadata as a worthwhile investment. Once these reasons
are explained, the authors offer an alternative solution
to create a "metadata explosion".
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Why Mine Data?
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Why Mine Data? An Executive Guide and discusses using
business intelligence to attract and retain customers.
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WIDL: Application
Integration with XML
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The Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL) is an
application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) which
allows the resources of the World Wide Web to be described
as functional interfaces that can be accessed by remote
systems over the standard Web protocols. WIDL provides a
practical and cost-effective means for diverse systems to
be rapidly integrated across corporate intranets,
extranets and the Internet.
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XML Ushers in
Structured Web Searches
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XML Ushers in Structured Web Searches by Lisa Rein of
Wired News discusses the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
and how searches in the near future might use this
protocol to help define relevant findings.
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Zonpower versus the Robo-Moderator
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Zonpower versus the Robo-Moderator by Andrew Leonard is a
tale of bots, Net-Kooks, and the cryptographic cutting
edge from the Web Review's The Bleeding Edge.
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