Intelligent Agents WWW sites

• Yoav Shoham, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
• MLC++ - Machine learning in C++, Silicon Graphics
  • MLC++ Utilities
  • Source code
    • Comments for compiling on other machines (not SGI or Windows NT)
  • Documentation
• WPI, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Artificial Intelligence in Design Group (AIRG) Multi-Agent Systems Webliography. A collection of sources of information about Multi-Agent Systems.
• UMBC AgentsNews by Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Current AgentNews webletter
  • AgentNews webletter and mailing lists
  • Introductory material
  • Agent FAQ
  • Agent theory - philosophy, formalisms, ...
  • Agent technology - systems, tools, languages, standards, ...
  • Mobile agents ...
  • Other agent related web resources
  • Agent-related R&D groups and companies
  • Agent-related projects
  • Example Agents
  • Software Agents Mailing List
  • Software Agents Mailing List Archives
• MIT Media Laboratory, Software Agents Group
  • Personnel: Pattie Maes, Henry Lieberman
  • Publications
    • Attaching Interface Agents to Applications (HTML, RTF, Postscript) Unpublished draft. by Henry Lieberman
    • Intelligent Software (HTML) Scientific American, Vol. 273, No.3, pp. 84-86, September 1995. Pattie Maes
    • Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload (HTML) Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No.7, July 1994. Pattie Maes
  • Research
  • Resources on agents
  • Design Interaction Paradigms, Research at the Media Lab
• Intelligent Information Interfaces: the i³ initiative, Esprit Home Page
  • Net services on: http://www.i3net.org
• Interface Agents, Andy Wood, School of Computer Science, Birmingham University
  • Papers
    • Available Over the Internet
    • Other References
    • Searches
  • Web Links (Projects, Technologies, Other Sites)
  • People
  • Miscellaneous (Conferences, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, etc.)
  • Site Search
• Intelligent Software Agents, Ralph Becket, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University
  • Other related pages on the Web
  • Papers
  • People
  • Ralph's Hotlist
• AI Repositories and Resource Lists: Agents, CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository CMU School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Agent Architectures (software packages)
• Luigi - network-based meeting organiser agent, Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University
  • Personnel: Marc Eisenstadt, Stuart Watt, and Zdenek Zdrahal.
  • KMi Stadium. RealAudio talk by Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab) about agents on 18th October, 1995.
• Michael Wooldridge Home Page (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAI) Unit, Intelligent Systems Applications Group, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College
  • Personel: Nick Jennings
  • Other Agent Pages
• Intelligent software agents, Pete Edwards, Computing Science Department, Aberdeen University
  • Recent Agent-Related Publications
  • Refinement in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Learning Agents for Information Filtering/Gathering
  • Novel Learning Techniques for Agent Systems
  • Other software agent pages
• IBM Intelligent Agents Home Page
  • Aglets Mobile Java agents at the Tokyo Research Lab
  • "Practical Design of Intelligent Agent Systems" by Peter Janca, IBM Intelligent Agent Center of Competency
  • The Java Agent Template work at Stanford University provides basic agent functionality packaged as a Java application or applet. It also allows agent interaction via exchange of KQML messages.
• NetWatch
  • Hauser - NetWatch Top Ten - Intelligent Agents / Information Agents
• The Computer Information Centre, UK. Compendium: agent developments
• Information Sources on Intelligent Agents
• Manufacturers and Main Suppliers of Intelligent Agents
• Consultants, Resellers and Service Providers of Intelligent Agents
• Agent Pointers, Olivier Baujard, Geneva University Hospital
• Multi-Agent Systems, Brahim Chaib-draa, Computer Science Department, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
  • Overall goal of the research research
  • Introductions et definitions
  • Agents Page
  • Links on other Projects in the World
• Intelligent Software Agents survey by Sverker Janson, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
  • Information integration agents - ACL, KIF, KQML
  • Coordinated agents - cooperative problem-solving, multi-agent systems
  • Mobile agents - Java, Telescript, Tcl, etc.
  • Assistant agents - personal assistants, softbots, data mining
  • Believable agents - alife, simulation
  • Recommended reading - general/introductory papers
    • Is it an agent or just a program? : A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents by Franklin and Graesser
    • What's an agent, anyway? (Julia) by Lenny Foner
    • Intelligent agents: theory and practice by Wooldridge and Jennings
    • Agent-based engineering, the web, and intelligence by Charles Petrie
    • Software agents by Genesereth and Ketchpel
    • Mobile agents: are they a good idea? by Harrison et al
  • Other resources - other agents pages, mailing lists, misc commercial
• The @gency, Serge Stinckwich, GREYC, Université de Caen
• Projects and sites working on (multi-)agent systems by Martina Nöhmeier, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Agent Knowledgebase Associates, Inc. Top Ten
  • Top Ten - Information Agents
• Intelligent Agents Research CSTaR Human Systems Integration Lab
• AgentSoft
• IA Sites, Intelligent Agent Research, Vision & Robotics Lab, AI-LAB, CAIR, Department of Computer Science (CSD), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
• Agent Studio - a Java-based agent toolkit, Roving Software Inc.
• VIA Versatile Intelligent Agents. A Java intelligent agent toolkit produced by Kinetoscope.

Examples of Agents

• Agents inc - Firefly : Music and movies recommending system
• Autonomy Corporation - www.agentware.com. Personalized intelligent agents.
  • The Technology Behind Autonomy
  • Autonomy Agentware Manual
• PointCast - News filter
• Go-Get-It - Fully Automatic Internet Personal Agent, Home Page Press and Nortech Software
• The Similarities Engine - Web-based Music Recommending System
• Acses - Acses finds any book by title, author, keyword or ISBN search and compares prices, shipping times and shipping costs of one or more books from over 25 Internet bookstores
• Top Ten - Information Agents, Agent Knowledgebase Associates, Inc.
• Eliza Test - java
• Eliza in java
• List of Bots - Eliza: The Original Bot - Internet Agents
• Yahoo! - Searching the Web:Robots, Spiders, etc. Documentation
• My Yahoo Web sites and news Recommending
• Yahoo! US Business and Economy:Companies:Computers:Software:Internet:Intelligent Agents
• Yahoo! UK Business and Economy:Companies:Computers:Software:Internet:Intelligent Agents
• Yahoo! US search: intelligent + agents
• Yahoo! UK search: intelligent + agents

Standards

• The Agent Society
  • Agent Activity. A list of all known corporate and research institution products and activities
  • Interoperability and Open Agent Standards. Initial work is progressing on a Simple Agent Transfer Protocol (SATP) through the SATP Design Group. An Open Agent Transfer protocol has also been put forward.
• FIPA - The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Personnel: Leonardo Chiariglione, Multimedia and Video Services, CSELT, Torinom, Italy

Interface Agents

• The Microsoft Agent User Interface, Microsoft Site Builder Workshop
• Agents for human-computer interfaces, UMBC AgentsNews by Tim Finin

Bots (Internet Agents)

• BotSpot.com "The Spot for all Bots on the Net". Welcome, Bot of the Week, List of Bots, FAQs, Search for information about Bots

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