Used Information Sources 8 Used information sources 8.1 Literature [ALOI95] D'Aloisi, D. and Giannini, V. The Info Agent: an Interface for Supporting Users in Intelligent Retrieval. November 1995. http://www.cilea.it/nir-it-95/atti/giannini/giannini/giannini-nir-95.html [BANG94] The High-Level Group on the Information Society. Recommendations to the European Council - Europe and the global information society (the Bangemann Report). Brussels, May 1994. http://www.earn.net/EC/report.html [DAIG95a]Daigle, L. Position Paper. ACM SigComm'95 - MiddleWare Workshop. April 1995. [DAIG95b] Daigle, Deutsch, Heelan, Alpaugh, and Maclachlan. Uniform Resource Agents (URAs). Internet-Draft. November 1995. http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-daigle-ura-02.txt [ETZI94] Etzioni, O. and Weld, D.S. A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet, in Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, nr. 7, page 72-76. Juli 1994. [ETZI95] Etzioni, O. and Weld, D.S. Intelligent Agents on the Internet - Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. IEEE Expert - Intelligent Internet Services, number 4, page 44-49. August 1995. [FIKE95] Fikes, R., Engelmore, R., Farquhar, A. and Pratt. W. Network-Based Information Brokers. Knowledge System Laboratory, Stanford University, United States, 1995. http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/KSL_Abstracts/KSL-95-13.html [IBM95] Gilbert, Aparicio, et al. The Role of Intelligent Agents in the Information Infrastructure. IBM, United States, 1995. http://activist.gpl.ibm.com:81/WhitePaper/ptc2.htm [IITA93] IITA, Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications. Report of the IITA Task Group High Performance Computing, Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee, 1993. http://www.hpcc.gov/reports/reports-nco/index.iita.html [JANC95] Janca, Peter. Pragmatic Application of Information Agents. BIS Strategic Decisions, Norwell, United States, May 1995. [KUOK92] Kuokka, D. and Harada, L. Integrating Information via Matchmaking. Small Journal Name, nr. 9, page 101-121, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1992. [LEWI95] Lewis, Ted. G. SpinDoctor WWW pages. 1995-1996. http://www.spindoczine.com [NRC94] National Research Council. Realizing the Information Future - The Internet and Beyond. Washington D.C., United States, 1994. http://www.nap.edu/nap/online/rtif/ Used Information Sources [NWAN96] Nwana, H.S. Software Agents: An Overview. Intelligent Systems Research AA&T, BT Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 1996. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agents/papers/ao.ps [RESN95] Resnick, P., Zeckhauser R. and Avery, C. Roles for Electronic Brokers. United States, Cambridge, 1995. http://ccs.mit.edu/1994wp.html#CCSWP179 [ROHS95] Rohs, M. WWW-Unterstützung durch intelligente Agenten. Elaborated version of a presentation given as part of the Proseminar "World-Wide-Web", Fachgebiet Verteilte Systeme des Fachbereichs Informatik der TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Germany, 1995. http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/VS/Lehre/WS95-96/Proseminar/rohs/ [SRI95] SRI International. Exploring the World Wide Web Population's Other Half. United States, June 1995. http://future.sri.com:80/vals/valshome.html [WOOL95] Wooldridge, M., and Jennings, N.R. Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice. January 1995. http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/ker95/ker95-html.html [ZAKK96] Zakon, R.H. Hobbes' Internet Timeline v2.3a. February 1996. http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/ 8.2 Information sources on the Internet The @gency (http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~serge/sma.html): A WWW page by Serge Stinckwich, with some agent definitions, a list of agent projects and laboratories, and links to agent pages and other agent-related Internet resources. Agent Info (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk:80/~amw/agents/): A WWW page containing a substantial bibliography on and Web Links related to Interface Agents. It does provide some information on agents in general as well. Agent Oriented Bibliography (http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/tsteiner): Note that as this project is at beta stage, response times might be slow and the output is not yet perfect. Any new submissions are warmly welcomed. Artificial Intelligence FAQ (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/ai_general/top.html): Mark Kantrowitz' Artificial Intelligence Frequently Asked Questions contains information about AI resources on the Internet, AI Associations and Journals, answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about AI, and much more. Global Intelligence Ideas for Computers (http://www.wp.com/globint): A WWW page by Eric Vereerstraeten about "assistants or agents [that] are appearing in new programs, [and that] are now wandering around the web to get you informed of what is going on in the world". It tries to give an impression of what the next steps in the development of these agents will be. Used Information Sources Intelligent Software Agents (http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/people/rwab1/agents.html): These pages, by Ralph Becket, are intended as a repository for information about research into fields of AI concerning intelligent software agents. Intelligent Software Agents (http://www.sics.se/isl/abc/survey.html): This is an extensive list that subdivides the various types of intelligent software agents into a number of comprehensive categories. Per category, organisations, groups, projects and (miscellaneous) resources are listed. The information is maintained by Sverker Janson. Personal agents: A walk on the client side (http://www.sharp.co.uk/pk/unicom/Unicom.htm): A research paper by Sharp Laboratories. It outlines "the role of agent software in personal electronics in mediating between the individual user and the available services" and it projects "a likely sequence in which personal agent-based products will be successful". Other subjects that are discussed are "various standardisation and interoperability issues affecting the practicality of agents in this role". Project Aristotle: Automated Categorization of Web Resources (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm): This is "a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services that are investigating or which demonstrate the automated categorization, classification or organization of Web resources. A working bibliography of key and significant reports, papers and articles, is also provided. Projects and associated publications have been arranged by the name of the university, corporation, or other organization, with which the principal investigator of a project is affiliated". It is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan. SIFT (http://hotpage.stanford.edu/): SIFT is an abbreviation of "Stanford Information Filtering Tool", and it is a personalised Net information filtering service. "Everyday SIFT gathers tens of thousands of new articles appearing in USENET News groups, filters them against topics specified by you, and prepares all hits into a single web page for you. " SIFT is a free service, provided as a part of the Stanford Digital Library Project. The Software Agents Mailing List FAQ (http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~belmarc/agent_faq.html): A WWW page, maintained by Marc Belgrave, containing Frequently Asked Questions about this mailing list. Questions such as "how do I join the mailing list?", but also "what is a software agent?" and "where can I find technical papers and proceedings about agents?" are answered in this document. UMBC AgentWeb (http://retriever.cs.umbc.edu:80/agents/): An information service of the UMBC's Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology, maintained by Tim Finin. It contains information and resources about intelligent information agents, intentional agents, software agents, softbots, knowbots, infobots, etcetera. . Used Information Sources 8 Used information sources 8.1 Literature [ALOI95] D'Aloisi, D. and. Realizing the Information Future - The Internet and Beyond. Washington D.C., United States, 1994. http://www.nap.edu/nap/online/rtif/ Used Information Sources