FAQ's and Libraries
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The Agent Society
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The Agent Society provides an international industry and
professional organization to assist in the widespread
development and emergence of Internet and related agent
technologies and markets. The Agent Society maintains
Agent
Activity and Agent Events libraries.
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The AmEC
Initiative
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The Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce (AmEC) Initiative
investigates how software agent technologies can expedite
the electronic commerce revolution. Issues addressed
include distributed component-based marketplaces, open and
extensible languages and protocols for locating and
defining goods and services, merchant differentiation,
value-based product comparisons, buying decision aids,
negotiation protocols, visualization of marketplace data
and activities, and issues of trust, reputation, security,
marketing, intermediaries, as well as the socioeconomic
implications of next generation agent-mediated electronic
commerce systems.
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The
Brighton University Resource Kit for Students
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The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students (BURKS)
is an extremely comprehensive library of online CDs
covering resources and sites About Your PC, Programming
Languages (compilers, reference manuals, tutorials and
FAQs for over 20 different programming languages as well
as other useful source codes), The Internet, Dictionary of
Computing, Software, Linux and External Sites and more.
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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 Data Mine
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The Data Mine provides information about Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD), also known as
Knowledge Acquisition from Databases and Knowledge
Discovery.
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The Inet-Access
FAQ List
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A complete FAQs on Internet Access Providers.
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The Internet Archive
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The Internet Archive is collecting and storing public
materials from the Internet such as the World Wide Web,
Netnews, and downloadable software which have been donated
by Alexa Internet. The Archive will provide historians,
researchers, scholars, and others access to this vast
collection of data (reaching ten terabytes), and ensure
the longevity of this information.
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The Java Intelligent
Agent Library
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The Java™ Intelligent Agent Library provides components
for building intelligent agents, implemented entirely in
Java. The library is a collection of over 150 Java classes
covering various aspects of building intelligent agents.
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The Lieberary
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The Lieberary: Henry Liberman's OnLine Library. Henry
Lieberman is a Research Scientist at the MIT Media
Laboratory especially interested in combining artificial
intelligence with interactive graphics and human interface
ideas. The Lieberary is a large collection of his work
with illustrated abstracts of papers, full versions in
HTML, RTF and Postscript and Quicktime movies of software
demonstrations.
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The NoCeM FAQ
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The Cancelmoose™ Home Page gives the latest version of the NoCeM FAQ. This FAQ discusses potential solutions to
the on going spam problem in Usenet.
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The Open
Agent Architecture
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The Open Agent Architecture is a comprehensive resource
and a framework for integrating a community of
heterogeneous software agents in a distributed
environment.
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The RBSE Program
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The Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE) program
is a research and development program whose mission is to
provide state-of-the-art technology transfer mechanisms to
improve NASA's software capability. The purpose of RBSE is
to support the adoption of software reuse through
repository-based software engineering in targeted sectors
of industry, government, and academia. The program
provides a repository that facilitates the selection,
acquisition, integration, and reuse of software
components, provides proven architectures upon which to
assemble systems, and promotes common software engineering
practices and standards.
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The SAL Library
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The SAL (Service Agent Layer) Library is an "intelligent"
interface that hides KQML messages exchanged via CORBA
from you. The SAL makes it quite simple to exchange
(sting) messages.
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The Society for
Computer Simulation
International European
Council
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The Society for Computer Simulation is an international
forum dedicated to research, development and applications
of simulation. A very diverse field whose interests
include artificial intelligence, microcomputers in
simulation, methodology and validation, supercomputers and
more.
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The Software Developer's Handbook
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The Software Developer's Handbook is a compendium of
knowledge about the various facets of Software
Development, with links and references to original, more
in-depth sources.
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The Spider's
Apprentice
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The Spider's Apprentice offers how to get the most from
search engines like Alta Vista, InfoSeek, Excite,
Webcrawler, Lycos, HotBot, Open Text and the Yahoo
Directory.
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The Spire Project
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Often when searching for information we only use sources
close at hand, references we are most familiar with. We
overlook the value of other, more appropriate Internet,
Library and Commercial resources. This site will extend
your ability to gather information, and guide you in your
search for answers.
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The Web Robots
Database
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This was formerly called the List of Active Robots and is
now stored into individual files to View Names, View Type
Details (using tables) and View Contact Details (using tables).
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The World
Brain Project
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This is not an on-line library or vast associative memory,
but potentially a synthetic genius that will deliver us
from war, poverty and suffering. Imagination Engines, Inc.
will be announcing the issue of six key US patents in the
area of artificial intelligence that will allow the
spontaneous growth of neural network cascades rivaling and
perhaps surpassing the complexity of the human brain.
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TRANSDOC
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TRANSDOC is an encrypted document transfer service with
all documents being certified on receipt with an easy to
use web-based interface enabling users to securely
transfer documents.
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Ubiquitous Computing
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Ubiquitous Computing names the third wave in computing,
just now beginning. Ubiquitous computing is roughly the
opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts
people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous
computing forces the computer to live out here in the
world with people.
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UKOLUG
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The UK Online User Group (UKOLUG) is the fastest growing
user group for people who want to take maximum advantage
of online, CD-ROM and Internet resources. The interests of
the Group encompass sources of information of all types.
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UK Subject
Gateways
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Seven UK Subject Gateways part of the Electronic Libraries
Programme (eLib) are tacking the problem of how to find
useful information on the Internet as part of the national
strategy funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) and are providing a model for other gateways
throughout Europe, the US and Australia. The Projects are:
ADAM Art, Design,
Architecture & Media Information Gateway, Biz/ed Business
Education on the Internet, CAIN Conflict Archive on the Internet, EEVL Edinburgh
Engineering Virtual Library, History, OMNI
Organising Medical Networked Information, and SOSIG Social Science
Information Gateway.
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Undernet WWW Server
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The Undernet IRC Network is one of the largest chat
networks in the world, with approximately 45 servers
connected together serving over 35 countries.
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Usable Information
Technology
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A comprehensive site on usable information technology by Jakob Nielsen
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Usable Web
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Usable Web: A Guide to Web Usability Resources is a
collection of links and accompanying information about
human factors, user interface issues, and usable design
specific to the World Wide Web.
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USENET Access FAQ
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USENET Access FAQ is an extremely comprehensive set of
Frequently Asked Questions on USENET access.
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USENET comp.ai FAQs
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USENET FAQs covering comp.ai and subgroups of fuzzy,
genetic, nat-lang, neural-nets and shells. One single
source for all artificial intelligence FAQs in USENET
newsgroups.
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Usenet Hypertext
FAQ Archive
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This archive contains Usenet Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) postings in Hypertext format and in FTP archive
textual format. Select the format that best serves your
purposes.
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User Modeling Inc. |
User Modeling Inc. is a non-profit organization that has
been incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in
1994 to serve the user modeling research community. The
primary purpose of the organization is to sponsor an
international conference on user modeling every two years.
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Virtual Computer Library |
The Virtual Computer Library is a collection of links to
computer-related information on the Internet including
Academic Computing Centers, Book Reviews, Computer
Technology, Conferences, Documentation, FAQs, Internet
Information, Journals/Magazines, News/Press Releases,
Nonprofit/Government Organizations, Online
Books/Dictionaries, Publishers, User Groups/Associations,
Vendors Index and WWW Information.
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Virus Encyclopedia
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The Virus Encyclopedia by Symantec's Antivirus Research
Center gives a comprehensive search database for all types
of viruses.
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W-Prolog
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Complete FAQ on W-Prolog a simple interpreter written in
Java as an applet or as a stand alone application as well
as jProlog.
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Watching the
Robots Resources |
Robot tracking reports and watching out for robots
visiting your site resources are listed including a perl
bot watching utility available for download.
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WADL |
The Web Applications Developers List (WADL) is a mailing
list, IRC channel and web site devoted to providing the
tools to allow serious software developers to help each
other in the creation of sophisticated Web-based
applications.
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Web Access
Via Email
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As information is increasingly posted on the World Wide
Web, there is still a sizable community of Internet users
with access only to email. Webmail servers are used to
retrieve WWW pages via email. By sending email to the
servers listed, you can retrieve documents from the
specified web site. Many of these servers also allow
access to other types of Internet tools such as gopher,
archie, ftp and others.
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Webmaster's Guide
to Search Engines
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Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines gives an overview as
well as many frequently asked questions concerning search
engines and bots on the Internet with relevance directed
to the Webmaster's needs.
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Web Browsers
OpenFAQ
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Web Browser OpenFAQ is maintained by Thomas Boutell and is
covered by the GNU Public License. All articles can be
freely reproduced intact under the terms of that license.
Anyone can become a contributor to this document.
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WebCite
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WebCite is an experimental MLA citation generator for
electronic resources created by Robert J. Tiess. It uses
an input form plus JavaScript to compose example citation
formats.
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Web IR & IE
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This site is a comprehensive library and collection of
online resources for research in the field of information
retrieval (IR) and information extraction (IE) from the
web.
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WebSoft
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The WebSoft project is investigating the use of the WWW as
the infrastructure and external integration mechanism for
a global software engineering environment (gSEE). A gSEE
is an environment that can seamlessly support the
evolution of a software product from the idea stage
through maintenance of an implementation, regardless of
the location or number of individuals involved. Such an
environment should be able to support the expansion,
contraction, and migration of participants in the software
process without requiring changes to the environment
infrastructure, and thus reducing the impact of changes on
the project as a whole.
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Web Standards
Project
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The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is a collective effort of
web developers, tool developers, and end users. Our
mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by
persuading the browser makers that common standards are in
everyone's best interest.
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WebSweep
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WebSweep is a new Internet cleanup utility for Windows
95/NT that can automatically and safely remove all the
"junk files" transferred to your hard drive during every
Internet session. Each time you access the Web you
accumulate unwanted files from Java, ActiveX, cookies and
other push channel technologies. WebSweep is the only
automatic method of recovering this wasted space.
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WebWatch
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The WebWatch Project will develop robot software for use
on the World Wide Web to trawl over web resources in
specific communities, including UK academic and library
sites. Their aim is to develop a set of tools which will
then be used to audit and monitor design practice and use
of technologies on the web. This will provide data about
design practices, especially the deployment of
applications based on or influenced by object technology
including client-side scripting, mobile code, and embedded
components (Java, ActiveX, Plugins..). It will also be
monitoring conformance/use of standards (HTML 4.0 and XML)
and file-types available (e.g. PDF).
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Windows 95/98 HTML
and Link Verification
Tools
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An excellent listing and download resource of HTML and
Link Verification Bots and utilities.
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WordNet
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WordNet - a Lexical Database for English. WordNet(r) is an
online lexical reference system whose design is inspired
by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical
memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are
organized into synonym sets, each representing one
underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the
synonym sets.
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World Wide Web
Robots, Wanderers,
and Spiders
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World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders are all names for programs that traverse the Web automatically.
This site is devoted to learning as much as possible about their uses and problems.
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WWW FAQs
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WWW - World Wide Web FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions is
a comprehensive site listing hundreds of questions and
answers about the World Wide Web.
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WWW Robot FAQ's
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One of the most comprehensive Robot FAQ's on the Internet with an extensive table of contents followed by many
frequently answered questions. A must site for both the Newbie and the experienced Internaut.
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WWW Viewer
Test Page
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Test your world wide web browser for Text, Images, Audio,
Video and Miscellaneous Applications using this
comprehensive test page.
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WWW Virtual
Library
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The WWW Virtual Library is the oldest catalog on the Web,
started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web itself.
Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose
confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key
links for particular areas in which they are expert, even
though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages
are widely recognized as being amongst the highest quality
guides to particular sections of the Web.
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WWW::Search
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WWW::Search is a library and collection of Perl modules
which provide an API to WWW search engines like Alta
Vista, Lycos, HotBot, WebCrawler and so on. Currently
WWW::Search includes back-ends for variations of Alta
Vista, Lycos and HotBot with more currently under
development. WWW::Search includes AutoSearch, a
program to automate web-based searches.
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XML/EDI
Repository
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A comprehensive Repository for eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Resources on
the Internet.
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[xlx]'s Internet
Underground
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[xlx]'s Internet Underground is a comprehensive resource
for IRC, mIRC, IRC Resources, Features and Underground
eZines.
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Year 2000
Software
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There are numerous automated tools available from vendors
for performing year 2000 conversion tasks. Reviews of many
of these tools can be read at the General Services Administration (GSA) Year 2000 Web site. Other tools
are available for free downloading from the NIST site
including Unravel (program slicer), Finddate (source code
scanner), GJdates (year 2000 reference data generator) and
Test spreadsheets.
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