
Computers - Artificial Intelligence - Agents


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OMG Agent Working Group
- The group develops a standard framework for agent technology that is complementary and consistent with the OMG Object Management Architecture.
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Control of Agent-Based Systems
- DARPA's agent based systems program, the participants, and their research activities.
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A personal network assistant based on AI and agent technology
- Narval (Network Assistant Reasoning with a Validating Agent Language) executes recipes (sequences of actions) to perform tasks.
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Foundations of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)
- Information on FIPA standards for interoperability among software agent platforms
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AgentLink
- Consortium of European universities doing research in agent-based computing; Includes links to courses, events, projects, and people.
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Agentcities Web
- Agentcities is a worldwide initiative designed to help realise the commercial and research potential of agent based applications by constructing a worldwide, open network of platforms hosting diverse agent based services.
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MSc in Intelligent and Multi-Agent Systems
- A postgraduate programme of study offered by the University of Westminster, UK. This course gives an in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the fields of symbolic and non-symbolic artificial intelligence within the context of their application to agent-based systems.
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massdigital
- Offsite monitoring services. Monitors alterations/updates to specified Web sites.
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A Gentle Introduction to Agents
- This is a tutorial on agents with particular emphasis on applications in the telecommunications industry.
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Where Do Intelligent Agents Come From?
- "Researchers at Indiana University (IU) are part of a growing community that believe that the dumb-agent approach will both enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers to build more intelligent systems and enable cognitive scientists to study intelligence more broadly." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
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DavidReilly.com: Software Agents
- An informal and brief overview with links to more information.
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Agents That Reduce Work and Information Overload
- Link to an introductory article by Pattie Maes, a renowned researcher on software agents.
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Intelligent software agents from A to Z
- Directory of virtual assistants and intelligent agents for every days and every tasks
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Bookmarks for Mike Wooldridge
- A classified listing of resources maintained by Professor Michael Wooldridge.
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UMBC Agent Web
- A collection of web pages on intelligent software agents, knowbots, KQML, SATP, active information integration and agent-oriented systems.
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MultiAgent.com
- Industrial and Research information about multiagent systems design, implementation, theory, and applications. Has lots of articles about MulitAgent technology.
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CALT Encyclopedia -- Agents
- A collection of resources related to agents technologies. (technologies, models, applications, etc.).
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CompInfo - Intelligent Agents
- Links to basic information, events, publications related to intelligent agents.
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Agents Portal
- A portal for agents and multiagent technology. News and directory of links, ressources and people.
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Protecting the Integrity of Agents: An Exploration into Letting Agents Loose in an Unpredictable World
- "Strategies must be developed to protect the integrity of agents. With the use of this new technology in safety-critical applications, better ways of engineering agent-based systems must be devised. In this paper, we discuss these issues and the ramifications of letting agents loose in an unpredictable world; solutions are also proposed." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
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AgentOS: The Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks
- "Agent-based communication paradigms have shown enormous potential for operating in unpredictable, metamorphic environments, such as mobile computing networks." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
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Emotionware
- "Why emotions might be useful to have, and touch on what would be involved in developing the emotional side of an intelligent agent." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
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Web Hunting: Design of a Simple Intelligent Web Search Agent
- "The goal of this article is to introduce the reader to the basic elements of an intelligent agent, and then apply those elements to a Web search agent to provide the framework for the construction of a simple intelligent Web search agent." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
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Towards a Standardization of Multi-Agent System Frameworks
- Briefly describes groups' efforts toward the standardization of multi-agent system architectures, and outlines early work at the University of Calgary to define multi-agent systems architectures.
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Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice
- Fundamental Paper in Intelligent Agent Research by M. Wooldridge and N.R. Jennings (PostScript)
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Software Agents: An Overview
- Classic Paper describing the history and various categories of Intelligent Software Agents.
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Agent Research Paper Clearing House
- This page gives an well organized overview of agent research papers, provided by AgentLink
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Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet
- Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments.
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Emorphia Publications
- Publications describing FIPA-OS and related applications
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JADE Publications
- Publications describing JADE Agent Development Tools
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LEAP Publications
- Publications related to LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform)
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Java Agent Services
- Documents describing the Java Agent Services platform
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The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages, Labrou Y., Finin T., and Peng Y.
- Paper describing semantics of FIPA and KQML
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FIPA - Towards a Standard for Software Agents - O'Brien and Nicol R.
- Paper (PDF) describing the FIPA standard (see also www.fipa.org)
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FIPA - Conference and Journal Papers
- Papers related to the FIPA Agent Communication Language and Related Standards.
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Mobile Commerce Agents in WAP-based Services, Matskin M., and Tveit A.
- This paper describes an agent-based platform for support of mobile commerce using wireless (WAP-based) devices. (Abstract only)
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Peer-to-peer based Recommendations for Mobile Commerce, Tveit A.
- This paper describes a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based collaborative filtering architecture for the support of product and service recommendations for mobile customers.
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Agents2Go, Ratsimor O., Korolev K., Joshi A., and Finin T.
- an infrastructure for location-dependent service discovery in the mobile electronic commerce environment
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A Survey of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Tveit A.
- This paper gives an overview of research on methodologies for Industry-strength Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.
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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Jennings N. R. and Wooldridge M. J.
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A Survey of Agent-Oriented Methodologies, Iglesias et. al,
- This article introduces the current (1999) Agent-Oriented Methodologies.
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Representing Social Structures in UML - Parunak H. V. D., and Odell J.
- Paper describing how to capture sociological constructions in an Agent-extended UML (2001, PDF)
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ElComAg - Agent and E-Commerce Events
- This page list conferences, journals, workshops and other events(somewhat) related to Agents. The list is ordered by due date.
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DBWorld - list of events
- A comprehensive and frequently updated list of events such as conferences and workshops in Computer Science (An ACM SIGMOD resource).
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MultiAgent.com - Conferences
- List of Conferences and Other events related to Agent Research
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UMBC Agent Web - Conferences and Workshop
- List of upcoming conferences and workshops related to Agent Research
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AgentLink - Agent Events Calendar
- Ordered list of Agent Research Events. Maintained by Agentlink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
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Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute - Intelligent Software Agents
- Projects address the infrastructure issues of multi-agent systems, including agent communication, interoperability, and security.
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ÖFAI Intelligent Software Agents and New Media
- People, Research projects, Publications, Teaching, Events, Links. Projects include things such as emotional agents, computer support in education.
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An Agent-Based Environment for Integrating and Analyzing Plant Genomic Databases
- Agents for ontology assisted data integration and data mining from distributed, heterogeneous plant genomic databases.
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Multi-Agent Systems for Integrated Host and Network Based Intrusion Detection
- Collaborative agents for intrusion detection and countermeasures in networked computing systems.
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Coordination and Control of Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-agent organizations, coordination and control structures and mechanisms.
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Distributed Knowledge Networks
- Multi-agent systems for information retrieval, extraction, fusion, and data-driven knowledge acquisition and decision support using heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous data and knowledge sources.
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IMPACT: Interactive Maryland Platform
- A Multi-agent platform developed at University of Maryland. Each agent has several declaratively specified components such as a decision Component, a security Component , and a metaknowledge component.
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Incremental Learning from Distributed Dynamic Data Sources
- Multi-agent systems for incremental data-driven knowledge acquisition from distributed data sources.
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Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Fusion from Heterogeneous, Distributed Data Sources
- Ontology assisted agent systems for information retrieval, extraction, and assimilation from heterogeneous, distributed data and knowledge sources.
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Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent agents research, publications, and agent building toolkit from British Telecom labs.
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The Intelligent Search Agent Netuglen Homepage
- The homepage of the Netowl - an agent prototype under development. The aim is to improve Internet search on libraries using machine learning.
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MIT Media Lab: Software Agents
- Software agents research group at MIT. Projects cover many issues concerning software agents, including collaborative filtering, user modeling, learning, multi-agent systems, privacy and security. The group is led by Prof. Pattie Maes.
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ElComAg - Electronic Commercial Agents
- Research on agent architectures to support mobile users in an e-commerce setting.
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Secure transaction between intelligent agents (STRABIA)
- Project aimed at developing a Secure Agent Transaction Protocol for Agent-Based Systems using various encryption and crytographic technologies.
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WebWatcher homepage
- WebWatcher is an adaptive tour guide for the world wide web. It accompanies the user from page to page as the user browses the web, highlighting hyperlinks that it believes will be of interest. Its strategy for giving advice is learned from feedback from earlier tours.
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Multi-Agent Distributed Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Lab
- Homepage of Multi-Agent Distributed Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Lab at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
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NIAD&R - Distributed Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Group
- NIAD&R is an AI and Intelligent Robotics group at the University of Oporto, Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, coordinated by Professor Eugenio Oliveira.
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SMAC team (Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems)
- We study multi-agent systems to design open and complex applications for which there is no algorithmic solution known. The main topics covered are self-organization, emergence, simulation, collective robotics, agent-oriented methodology.
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Agents as artists: Automating socially intelligent embodiment
- Agents should create their own socially meaningful embodiment. Our goal is to develop techniques for synthesizing faces that elicit specific trait attributions. We also reflect on how modeling impressions of the face enhances user interactions.
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Intelligent Agentlab
- The Intelligent Agent Laboratory is in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Current major research activities are in the areas of multi-agent systems, agent frameworks, and information agents.
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BT Intelligent Agent Research
- The ISR Agent Research is concerned with the development and analysis of sophisticated AI problem-solving and control architectures for both single-agent and multiple-agent systems.
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DAMAS Lab: Dialogues, Agents, Multi-Agents
- DAMAS Research Laboratory at University Laval in Quebec city. Projects cover Intteligent Dialogues, Supply Chain, Cognitive Maps, e-commerce, frigates defense and vehicle control using multi-agents systems.
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E=mC2 Project - Empowering the mobile Citizen Creatively
- To investigate and deliver tools and technologies relevant to the empowerment of citizens within the mobile ubiquitous computing arena using multi-agent systems.
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Annual symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- The goal of this annual symposium is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between ML experts and agent system experts, and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive agents.
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Agent SyStEm Research and Technology - ASSERT
- This is the site of Agent SyStEms Research and Technology, ASSERT. We do research in the areas of Multi-agent systems, robotics, logistics and resource allocation.
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AAMAS/AOC Research group at HKBU
- home page of the autonomous agent and multi-agent systems / autonomy oriented computation (AAMAS/AOC) research group at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Collaborative Technologies Research Center - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Performs fundamental and applied research in intelligent software agents, information integration, and software engineering.
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AgentWare Systems, Inc.
- Intelligent Agents Technology for the Internet, Intranets, factory automation and automobile manufacturing providing variety management, complexity management, mass customization.
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Plan-b-media.de
- Sodelling Studio develops avatars with artificial intelligence and text-to-speech function for the internet.
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DataBots
- Use ordinary Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to create advanced neural networks for knowledge agents. These adaptive organisms can exercise their own independent judgement in mining through databases.
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Topia Ventures - Personal Software Agents
- Collaborative agents for e-commerce.
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novomind
- novomind AG develops AI software for eCommerce: online customer support via virtual webagents (avatars, bots) and automated transfer to call centers/customer contact centers (eCRM).
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Computer Agents In The Real World
- A wireless AI robotic creature with remarkable human-like abilities, ALPHA can recognise and remember people and objects, communicate with voice and hand sign language, and retrieve information from the Internet.
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living systems
- Living Systems AG is a leading provider of Adaptive Execution Software based on the LARS living agents runtime system. With Adaptive Execution Software, companies can optimize their business processes and business relationships in real-time.
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The CoMMA project
- Corporate Memory Management through Agents: a collaborative project partially funded by the European Commission. The main objective of the project is to implement and trial a corporate memory management framework based on agent technology.
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The SIM_AGENT Package
- The Sim_agent toolkit was developed within the Cognition and Affect project, at the University of Birmingham. The ftp repository for the project includes papers reporting on theoretical work and preliminary designs.
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MAST agent architecture
- Description and home page of the MAST architecture.
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Microsoft Agent Information
- Integrates an animated character with speech recognition and speech synthesis. Special for developpers.
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FIPA-OS Agent Toolkit
- FIPA-OS is a component-based toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPA compliant agents. FIPA-OS supports the majority of the FIPA Experimental specifications (www.fipa.org) and is being continuously improved.
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MadKit agent platform
- A multi-agent platform built based on an organizational model of multi-agent systems.
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Aglets
- The Aglets Software Development Kit is an environment for programming mobile Internet agents in JavaTM. Aglets are Java objects that can move from one host on the Internet to another. That is, an aglet that executes on one host can suddenly halt execution, dispatch itself to a remote host, and resume execution there.
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OpenCybele Agent Infrastructure
- OpenCybele, the open source agent infrastructure, is a runtime environment built on the top of the Java(TM) 2 platform for control and execution of agents. Features include plug-n-play capability of agent services, Activity Centric Programming (ACP), multi-thread support for concurrent agent execution, location independent communication, publish-subscribe based messaging, synchronous, asynchronous, broadcast, and point-to-point messaging.