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BotSpot Categories Knowledge Bots continued PAGE 2 OF 4 Artificial Life Games Homepage The Artificial Life Games Homepage contains information about games developed by the means of ALife techniques including links and addresses of people involved in this kind of activity. Artis Intelligent Agent Tools Artis is a software consulting company that has created a number of excellent software tools for the creation of intelligent agents. Activation Framework is a toolset for the development of distributed agent based applications. Agent Socket is a real-time messaging middleware that enables processes on many different computers to exchange messages without being concerned about the details of the inter-process communications. TR-Expert RT-Expert is a compiler that compiles expert systems rules into executable subroutines that can be embedded into C/C++ programs. Automated Methodology Systems Since 1993 Methodware has been dedicated to developing tools to assist organizations in automating methodologies. Methodware's Advisor products are developed using the Advisor Pathfinder engine. Advisor Pathfinder is a development engine that enables the automation of methodologies. This engine allows each product to be easily tailored to meet the specific requirements of your organization. Autonomous Agents at Rock Island Arsenal Autonomous Agents at Rock Island Arsenal (AARIA) offers an excellent site with projects overview of the future of Agents as well as an archive of agent resources. Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection The Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection Group is composed of a number of students and faculty within the COAST Laboratory at Purdue University whose purpose is to address the problem of intrusion detection from a different angle -- instead of a monolithic Intrusion Detection System (IDS) design, they propose a distributed architecture. Their design has the advantage of scalability, efficiency, fault-tolerance, and easy configurability. Autonomous Agents Research Group The Autonomous Agents Research Group is part of the Computer Engineering and Science Department of the Case Western Reserve University and is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Human Frontier Science Program. Autonomy AgentWare Personalized Intelligent Agents from Autonomy Corporation. This site discusses Intelligent Agents for the Internet, What is an Intelligent Agent, How Do I Use One, and Where Do I Find One? Avatarnets Avatarnets by Peter Small is a site about experimenting with new ways to use the Internet and the World Wide Web. This site discusses his books about Avatars as well as useful links, experiments and scripts. Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (BKD) is a computer program able to learn Bayesian Belief Networks from (possibly incomplete) databases. BKD is based on a new estimation method called Bound and Collapse and it has been developed within the Bayesian Knowledge Discovery project. Brain Construction Kit The Brain Construction Kit is a sophisticated application for the simulation of neural networks. This neural network simulator provides an attractive graphical user interface through which neural networks may be created, trained and used to classify data. Currently the system supports Hopfield neural networks, Kohonene neural networks, Multi Layer Perceptrons using either the Backpropogation of Errors learning algorithm, or Scott Fahlman's Quickprop algorithm, and the more modern Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Networks architecture. All source code (Java) for the Brain Construction Kit (BCK) is supplied with the package at no cost. BroadVision BroadVision One-To-One Application Systems are industrial strength application platforms for rapid development and real-time operation of personalized, interactive Internet, Intranet and Extranet business applications. BusinessBots BusinessBots creates advanced electronic commerce services and applications for systems involving multiple, interacting software agents. Founded by legendary computer game designer Moses Ma, BusinessBots has attracted top scientists in game-theory and mathematics, risk management and human interface design. The company holds key patents in the optimization of automated negotiations and business processes in multiagent systems. BusinessBots and CommerceNet were recently awarded a 5 million dollar National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology grant, to design and deploy a revolutionary infrastructure for object-oriented electronic commerce, which is called "Component Commerce". Caltech Infospheres Project Researching the composition of distributed active mobile objects that communicate using messages. The Caltech Infospheres Project researches compositional systems, which are systems built from interacting components. The Project is concerned with the theory and implementation of compositional systems that support peer-to-peer communication among persistent multithreaded distributed objects. CALVIN Communicating Agents Living Vicariously in Networks (CALVIN) agent framework is an open architecture for facilitating the development of highly concurrent, embedded agent-oriented applications. As such, the framework provides application developers with a powerful set of agent programming tools including libraries of intra- and inter-agent protocols, sensory and effectory apparatus, internal agent behavior APIs, persistent state management, and support for pre-emptive scheduling of behaviors, among others. CBR Agents Cooperation Case-based Reasoning (CBR) Agents Cooperation investigates several modes of cooperation among homogeneous agents with learning capabilities in a framework called federated learning. This page focuses on the cooperation among agents that learn and solve problems using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). CLIPS CLIPS is a productive development and delivery expert system tool which provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert systems. CLIPS is being used by over 5,000 users throughout the public and private community including all NASA sites and branches of the military, numerous federal bureaus, government contractors, universities, and many companies. COALA Simulation of Utilitarian Coalition Formation among Autonomous Agents. COALA is part of the Joint Project Coalition Formation in Power Transmission Planning (COPOP) together with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. Concordia Concordia - Advanced Java Mobile Agent Technology - is a full featured framework for development and management of network-efficient mobile agent applications for accessing information anytime, anywhere and on any device supporting Java. Concordia is developed and supported by Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America at their Horizon Systems Laboratory. Constant Contact Roving Software offers turnkey packages of application-specific agent components layered atop a core agent server, which integrates with any standard Web server, to provide customer-centric solutions. Constant Contact(tm) for Web Commerce - Active Personalization for online direct marketers, e-tailers, and catalog stores. Deliver one-to-one customer care while the customer is away from the site, in addition to personalized content while the customer is visiting the site. The Roving Web Developer Kit is a robust agent toolkit consisting of HTML templates, server-side agent scripts, and underlying Java-based agent classes used to develop intelligent information delivery systems in conjunction with standard intranet data sources, development tools, browsers, and servers. Cupcakes Technology Cupcakes are groundbreaking Internet agents technology providing personalization of Internet content, commerce, and advertising while addressing consumer privacy issues. The Cupcakes technology connects users and Internet sites, allowing users to share personal profile data with sites freely when they choose. Cypress Cypress - Integrated Planning Environment is a system for defining taskable, reactive agents. At its core are mature, powerful planning and execution technologies, namely the SIPE-2 generative planner and the PRS-CL reactive execution system. DarkBot DarkBot is an UNIX/WIN32 help robot. It has a parser that enables it to match text using regular IRC wildcards for almost human-like responses. If taught well, DarkBot can be an Expert System and is also multi-lingual. DataBots A comprehensive site offering resources and papers on underlying DataBot construction and function including background information. Data Mining at ORNL Data Mining at Oak Ridge Laboratory features Computational Forensics, Computational Neurology, DNA Sequence Analysis, Image Analysis and Bankruptcy Detection. Darwin Darwin is a suite of software tools that analyze large collections of data to discover new patterns and forecast future trends. This process of sifting through enormous databases to extract hidden information is called "data mining". Darwin is an intelligent data mining application. Debriefable Agents Debriefable Agents purpose is to develop technology that enables Soar-based problem-solvers to describe and explain their problems-solving activities. This technology, implemented in a system call Debrief, enables problem- solvers to engage in a question-answer dialog, in which the user can ask the problem solver about the actions it took and the reasoning behind those actions. DESIRE Research Programme The DESIRE research programme focuses on the study of compositional multi-agent systems for complex (and often distributed) tasks and development methods for these systems. In this research programme the agent metaphor has been adopted as a point of departure: a complex task can be modeled as a composition of a number of tasks, each of which is performed by one or more agents, these agents can have the form of automated systems or human agents (users). DingBot Software Developer's Tool Kit The DingBot SDK is a Java class library for building presence applications. Such applications can publish their online state and properties to each other and react to each other's state changes. They can communicate with each other and with human users using instant messages, chat and file transfers. Precooked DingBots included in the DingBot SDK: BroadcastBot, SecretaryBot and TickerBot. Distributed AI, Agents and Planning A comprehensive site featuring a menu of AI, Agents and Planning/Research Information. Menu items include areas from The MIT Media Lab, Autonomous Agents Group to Agent Related Web Pages an extremely comprehensive listing of Agent based web pages. Distributed Artificial Intelligence at HUJI The Distributed Artificial Intelligence at HUJI offers information on The CS Institite at The Hebrew University, Their People, Their Papers, and Workshops on Internet Agents. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Unit This unit has developed and applied distributed artificial intelligence and agent based techniques to real world problems in a widw range of commercial and industrial domains. dMARS dMARS(tm) is an agent-oriented development and implementation environment for building complex, distributed, time-critical systems. Designed for rapid configuration and ease of integration, it facilitates system design, maintenance and re-engineering. Based upon the older Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) developed by SRI International, dMARS takes advantage of the latest research into multi-agent, real-time reasoning. ECRAN Project ECRAN Project will develop a new generation of Information Extraction (IE) applications, to be included in telematic services having a large textual content. ECRAN will analyze free texts (initially, financial information from specialized newswire services, and market information on the Internet) extracting information content. The information can be compared against a model of user requirements so that the system can precisely identify text of interest to a customer. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Unit The DAIR Unit is part of the research groups on Artificial Intelligence and Systems for Data Management at the Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany). Members of the Unit are engaged in theoretical research and practical applications of multiagent systems. The DAIR Unit is also the Site of European AgentLink Network of Excellence. Edify Electronic Workforce(R) The Edify Electronic Workforce(R) is a full-featured, scaleable and flexible application development and runtime system that lets organizations design and deploy self service applications across the entire enterprise. ERA Project The Environment for Reflective Agents (ERA) Project is based on three important insights. The first is the need to provide automation support to users that is easy to use as a spreadsheet marco language or a visual programming language. The second is the recognition that end user automation tasks may span from simple scripts to applications that may embody sophisticated control such as trading, mediating and other types of tasks. Finally, the third insight is that the topology of the distributed automation that users may want to deploy spans systems that are not under user's administrative control. EXCALIBUR Project EXCALIBUR Project's goal is to develop a generic architecture for autonomously operating agents, like computer guided characters/mobile/items, within a complex computer game environment. These agents have to be able to find the right actions to pursue their given goals, and adapt their behavior to new environments and opponents. FollowMe Project The FollowMe Project will develop an architecture enabling a user to have a persistent active presence in the network, accessible through a wide range of devices. The presence will take the form of both a profile of information resources relevant to the individual user and automation of user tasks. Intelligent agent technology will be exploited to enable profiling and adaption to changing user goals. Ginkgo Ginkgo is a true "Smart Assistant". It is agent software that learns about people and then helps them by anticipating their needs, and making suggestions or doing things for them. It also learns about complex processes and can improve them in real time. Plus, it allows knowledge to be shared among groups. Ginkgo was reviewed by PCAI's Senior Editor and BotSpot's Best of the Bots Columnist Don Parker and is available at the PCAI Secret Agent Man Column archives located in BotSpot by clicking here. Grasshopper - The Agent Platform Grasshopper is the first mobile agent environment which is compliant to the OMG MASIF standard. The standardization ensures that your agent applications will be open towards other agent environments and save your investments for the future. Grasshopper allows you to build agent-enabled distributed applications which take advantage of local high-speed communications and local high-speed data access. GroupLens(tm) Recommendation Engine Net Perceptions' GroupLens Recommendation Engine allows Web sites to tailor information and recommendations to each customer's individual taste. The system features a robust recommendation engine, an easy to use client Application Programming Interface (API) and technology that adapts to the most demanding applications. Working behind the scenes, the GroupLens Recommendation Engine helps online businesses foster strong 1-to-1 relationships to maintain a competitive edge. Guideware Agent System for Java Guideware is an agent system for Java that lets developers plug-in new process management features to corporate extranet and intranet applications, including support for laptops. Guideware agents work across networks, integrate with applications written in popular languages and leverage existing standards. iAgent iAgent is an information filtering product from the Information Technology Institute. It seamlessly glues these components together into a powerful product which assists novice users to locate, retrieve and be updated on information matching their interests: iGateway, iSpider, iLibrarian, and iFilter. A complete list of iAgent Reference sites is included. IARG The Intelligent Agents Research Group (IARG) is a research group at the Department of Psychology of the University of Trieste. Its main goal is to study the design and behavior of intelligent agents (autonomous computational entities that behave in intelligent ways). Another important goal concerns the application of state of the art AI technologies in real world domains. IBM Agent Building Environment IBM Agent Building Environment — A toolkit for software developers that makes it easy to build an application based on agents, or to add them to an existing application. IBM Agents and Lotus Notes Agents Intelligent Agents are included in Notes v4. A simple three step interface allows users and designers to easily create Notes Agents to automate administrative and end-user tasks. IBM Aglets Workbench Programming Mobile Agents in Java™. You may download this workbench now and begin to create your own personalized agents to roam the Internet. 1    2     3    4