BotSpot Categories Knowledge Bots  (Page 2) InfoSpiders InfoSpiders (aka ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery) by Filippo Menczer and Rik Belew. A Java-based application for Windows or Linux, it searches the Web in behalf of its users.   Intelligent Agent Laboratory The Intelligent Agent Laboratory is based at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Their research covers the following areas: to search for, interpret and synthesize knowledge from the Internet with suitable software agents; to provide methods and tools to allow inexperienced users to build software agents; and to assess the tasks which software agents can perform well. Intelligent Agents Lists of various links on Intelligent Agents from the Computer Information Centre CompInfo. Intelligent Agents Group Intelligent Agents Group (IAG) was formed in September, 1996, Broadcom Ireland a research collaboration with the Computer Science Department in Trinity College Dublin, in order to explore current research in the domain of Intelligent Agents and to apply this technology to several applications. Software Agents: A Review is also available for download at this site. Intelligent Systems Laboratory The Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) investigates and develops methods, tools, and technology for the design and implementation of complex problem solving and adaptive software systems. Applications areas include electronic commerce, command and control, personal communication systems, workflow management, network management, distributed multimedia information systems and product configurations. The five main research areas are Agent Based Systems, Combinatorial Problem Solving and SICStus Prolog, Programming Technology for Networked and Mobile Computing, Knowledge Engineering for Configuration Problems and Personal Information Systems. IntelliMedia Initiative The IntelliMedia Initiative is a large-scale multi-disciplinary research program on artificial intelligence multimedia technologies. By fusing the inferential capabilities of artificial intelligence with sophisticated 3D animation, the IntelliMedia team creates knowledge-based multimedia learning environments and problem-solving environments that are populated by intelligent animated agents. The mission of the IntelliMedia Initiative is threefold, focusing on research, development and education. Inxight The Inxight portfolio of intelligent information technologies is based on extensive research in how people interact with computers, and the problem they face dealing with large volumes of information. The portfolio includes LinguistX and VizControls. JACK Intelligent Agents JACK Intelligent Agents is a new concept - an environment for building, running and integrating commercial JAVA-based multi-agent systems using a component-based approach. JACK is a set of JAVA components for the development of intelligent multi-agent systems based on the BDI model. JACK is extensible to support other agent architectures for either research or industrial applications. JAFMAS JAFMAS - A Java-based Agent Framework for MultiAgent Systems Development and Implementation. JAFMAS provides a framework to guide the coherent development of multiagent systems along with a set of classes for agent deployment in Java. The framework is intended to help beginning and expert developers structure their ideas into concrete agent applications. Jam! Agents Jam! is an intelligent agent architecture that grew out of academic research and extended during the last five years of use, development and application. Jam combines the best aspects of several leading-edge intelligent agent frameworks, including the Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) of Georgeff, Lansky, Rao. et.al., the University of Michigan's implementation of PRS called UMPRS, and SRI International's ACT plan interlingua, and the Structured Circuit Semantics (SCS) representation of Lee and Durfee. Jasper System The Jasper System is a system of intelligent software agents which hold details of the interests of their users in the form of user profiles. Jasper has the capability to summarize and extract key words from WWW pages and share the information with users whose profiles indicate similar interests. JATLite JATLite is providing a set of Java packages which makes easy to build multi-agent systems using Java. JATLite provides only light-weight, small set of packages so that the developers can handle all the packages with little effort. For flexibility JATLite provides four different layers from abstract to Router implementation. JESS - Java Expert System Shell The Java Expert System Shell (JESS) is a clone of the CLIPS expert system shell. JESS was written entirely in Sun's Java language by Ernest Friedman-Hill at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. JIAC Project Java Intelligent Agent Componentware (JIAC) is a project by the DAI Lab at the Technical University Berlin with its first version released in March 1997. Since then, more efforts have been undertaken to enhance the overall functionality of the platform, to improve the existing demonstration scenarios (which build upon the componentware), and to define and implement new scenarios. Jumping Beans Jumping Beans is a new technology to build mobile applications. A mobile application can pick itself up entirely from one machine while it is running, move to another machine, and continue execution on the new machine. KnU The Knowledge Utility, KnU by IBM, is a knowledge management engine which enables software to reflect a user's preference. KnU, pronounced "new", organizes choices and models user preference. Knowledge Systems Laboratory The Knowledge Systems Lab (KSL) is an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Current work focuses on knowledge representation, design and development of reusable ontologies, sharable knowledge bases and systems, computational environments for modelling physical devices, architectures for adaptive intelligent systems, and knowledge-based systems for science, engineering and defense applications. Learning Agents & Systems The Learning Agents & Systems group, headed by Dr. Pete Edwards, is based in the Department of Computing Science, at the University of Aberdeen. In recent years, the group has developed and applied machine learning and intelligent software agent technologies to a variety of real-world information management problems. The site has links to Current Work, Previous Work, People and Publications. LibraryAgents LibraryAgents - Library Applications of Intelligent Software Agents. A planned review and site for intelligent software agents for library services including reference applications, acquisitions cataloging and collection development. Of special interest will be assistant agents, information integration agents, coordinated agents and mobile agents. LogicWeb LogicWeb investigates the application of Logic Programming (LP) and structured programming ideas to the World Wide Web. LogicWeb integrates LP ideas with the WWW. This amalgamation extends Web pages with LP capabilities, and offers LP an interface to the Web. MAGSY MAGSY is a development platform for multi-agent system applications. Each agent in MAGSY has a forward-chaining rule interpreter in its kernel. Each rule interpreter is a complete reimplementation of an OPS5 system but was further enhanced to make it more suitable for the development of multi-agent system applications. Market-Oriented Programming Market-oriented programming is an approach to distributed computation based on market price mechanisms. The idea of market-oriented programming is to exploit the institution of markets and to create models to build computational economies to solve particular problems of distributed resource allocation using agents. Messenger Messengers are autonomous flows of control that can spawn across the network. This site collects information about messengers and domains where this programming paradigm is applied. Mobile Agents An extremely comprehensive metasite on Mobile Agents which are autonomous, intelligent programs that move through a network, searching for and interacting with services on the user's behalf. These systems use specialized servers to interpret the agent's behavior and communicate with other servers. A Mobile Agent has inherent navigational autonomy and can ask to be sent to some other nodes. MODEST Project The MODEST (Multimedia Object Descriptors Extraction from Surveillance Tapes) Project objective is to define and develop a framework for analyzing video sequences in order to extract high-level semantic scene interpretation. It will be based on the segmentation, tracking and indexing of moving objects in video scenes through the use of Intelligent Physical Agents (IPA). The work is performed in the scope of the FIPA, MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. The project will be demonstrated in a video surveillance application. MONADS MONADS - Adaptation Agents for Nomadic Users - examines adaptive agents for nomadic users. The project designs a software architecture based on agents and implements prototypes based on that architecture. The software architecture of MONADS is based on the Mowgli communications architecture. In addition, they attempt to exploit existing solutions, like OMG (CORBA 2.s and MASIF) and FIPA specifications, as far as possible. 1    2     3    4