]> research program goal is to design and prototype critical software components enabling developers to create intelligent software agents capable of understanding and processing information and knowledge encoded in DAML and other semantically rich markup languages. . This program will be the joint work of a team of two established research groups and a new research group-- the UMBC agents group headed by Tim Finin, the JHU/APL intelligent systems group headed by Jim Mayfield, and a new business policies group at MIT/Sloan headed by Benjamin Grosof who has just joined MIT/Sloan after previously heading a business rules group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.]]> 2000-09-01T00:00:00-05:00 2005-08-01T00:00:00-05:00 2004-11-28T00:00:00-05:00