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  <title><![CDATA[Multi-Agent Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/research/area/id/12/Multi-Agent-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Multi-agent systems (MAS) is an approach to building loosely coupled distributed systems in which components are thought of or modeled as autonomous, self interested, intelligent agents.  The field is partly a target goal and partly a collection of techniques and technologies aimed at moving us toward that goal.]]></description>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/46/AgentRX">
  <title><![CDATA[AgentRX]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/46/AgentRX</link>
  <description><![CDATA[During the past two attempts to demonstrate our highly distributed
majordemo system we experienced many low level problems that prevented
the demo from going smoothly.  These ranged from machines being off
the network, to agents not being in the right state, to speakers being
unplugged.  It is well known that keeping a complex distributed system
up and running is a difficult task, made even all the more difficult
if many of the components are partially or completely autonomous.
This pr...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/39/Intelligent-Personal-Agent">
  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Personal Agent]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/39/Intelligent-Personal-Agent</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Objective. The objective is to develop a personal agent that can provide and maintain the contextual information about a user. Acting as a record-keeper, this agent tracks a user's context by acquiring information from external sources (e.g., the context brokers in different smart spaces). Acting as an information provider, this agent shares the updated context information about a user with systems that attempt to provide services to the user. 

We assume the users are willing to share ce...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-11-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/45/My-iCal-Agent">
  <title><![CDATA[My iCal Agent]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/45/My-iCal-Agent</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The goal is to create an autonomous agent to maintain a personalized calendar for its user by using the iCal framework


iCal is a standard for publishing and sharing personal calendars. Using iCal-based applications (e.g., iCal and Mozilla Calendar), users can publish their personal calendars on a public calendar server (e.g., .Mac or iCalX) and subscribe to public calendars that are published by other users.
 

The design of My iCal Agent will take advantage of this publish/subscribe ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-11-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Policy-based Automated WAN Configuration and Management]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/78/Policy-based-Automated-WAN-Configuration-and-Management</link>
  <description><![CDATA[There are many significant challenges related to configuration and management of wide-area networks due to their rapidly growing complexity, failures, and attacks.  The DARPA Knowledge Plane Study identified that main challenges to be intelligent network management, fault detection, attack response, and fast network configuration.  With uncertainty and threads of battle areas, these challenges further grow exponentially.

In order to overcome the challenges, the project aims at developing a...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/273/Modeling-Conversation-Policies-using-Permissions-and-Obligations</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Both conversation specifications and policies are required to facilitate
effective agent communication. Specifications provide the order in which
speech acts can occur in a meaningful conversation, whereas policies restrict
the specifications that can be used in a certain conversation based
on the sender, receiver, messages exchanged thus far, content, and other
context. We propose that positive/negative permissions and obligations
be used to model conversation specifications and polici...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-04-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Modeling Communicative Behavior using Permissions and Obligations]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/205/Modeling-Communicative-Behavior-using-Permissions-and-Obligations</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe our preliminary work in modeling conversation
specifications and policies as positive/negative permissions and obligations.
Our model is generic as it is independent of the syntax and semantics
of the communication language and can be used for different agent
communication languages. We also discuss the relationship between conversation
specifications and policies and show how both are used by an
agent in order to decide what communicative act to perform next within
a conve...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-01-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/212/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/212/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context-aware systems exploit the use of situational information, or context, to provide relevant  information and services to users. A great challenge remains in defining an architecture that supports context-aware systems. Critical research issues include modeling and reasoning (how to represent  contextual information for machine processing and reasoning), knowledge sharing (how to enable agents to acquire consistent knowledge from unreliable sensors and agents), and user privacy protectio...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-12-14</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/190/Multi-agent-simulation-of-financial-markets">
  <title><![CDATA[Multi-agent simulation of financial markets]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/190/Multi-agent-simulation-of-financial-markets</link>
  <description><![CDATA[
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  <dc:date>2004-12-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/201/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-Smart-Spaces</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting that explores the use of multi-agent systems, Semantic Web ontologies, reasoning, and declarative policies for security and privacy. Building on a earlier pervasive computing system, EasyMeeting provides relevant services and information to meeting participants based on their situational needs. Our system exploits the context-aware support provided by the Context Broker Architecture (Cobra). Cobra's intelligent broker agent maintains ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-11-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/156/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Semantic-Web-in-a-Smart-Meeting-Room</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a new smart meeting room system called
EasyMeeting that explores the use of FIPA agent technologies,
Semantic Web ontologies, logic reasoning, and security
and privacy policies. Building on a pervasive computing
system that we have developed previously, EasyMeeting
can provide relevant services and information to meeting
participants based on their situational needs. Our system
exploits the context-aware support provided by the Context
Broker Architecture (CoBrA). Central ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-19</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/143/A-Context-Broker-for-Building-Smart-Meeting-Rooms">
  <title><![CDATA[A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/143/A-Context-Broker-for-Building-Smart-Meeting-Rooms</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Building smart meeting rooms requires the support of
a computing system architecture. In this paper, we
describe the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a
broker-centric agent architecture for pervasive contextaware
systems. CoBrA exploits theWeb Ontology Language
OWL for supporting knowledge sharing and data
fusion, uses logic inferences for resolving and detecting
inconsistent context knowledge, and provides users
with a policy language to control their private information.
Centra...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-03-20</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/78/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/78/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) – a new
architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart
spaces. Our architecture explores the use of Semantic Web
languages for defining and publishing a context ontology,
for sharing information about a context and for reasoning
over such information. Central to our architecture is a broker
agent that maintains a shared model of the context for all
computing entities in the space and enforces the privacy policies
defined by...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/131/Trust-Based-Knowledge-Outsourcing-for-Semantic-Web-Agents">
  <title><![CDATA[Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing for Semantic Web Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/131/Trust-Based-Knowledge-Outsourcing-for-Semantic-Web-Agents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Semantic Web enables intelligent agents to ``outsource''
knowledge, extending and enhancing their limited knowledge bases. An
open question is how agents can efficiently and effectively access the
vast knowledge on the inherently open and dynamic Semantic Web. The
problem is not that of {em finding} a source for desired information,
but deciding which among many possibly inconsistent sources is most
reliable.  We propose an approach to agent knowledge outsourcing
inspired by the us...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/71/eNcentive-A-Framework-for-Intelligent-Marketing-in-Mobile-Peer-To-Peer-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[eNcentive: A Framework for Intelligent Marketing in Mobile Peer-To-Peer Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/71/eNcentive-A-Framework-for-Intelligent-Marketing-in-Mobile-Peer-To-Peer-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In recent years, the growth of Mobile Computing, Electronic
Commerce and Mobile Electronic Commerce has created a
new concept of Mobile Electronic Marketing. New marketing
models are being developed and used to target mobile
users. Mobile environments introduces new challenges that
need to be overcome by these marketing models in order to
be successful and effective. This paper proposes a framework,
called eNcentive, which addresses many of the issues
that are characteristic of mobile...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-03</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/87/Using-Semantic-web-technology-in-Multi-Agent-systems-a-case-study-in-the-TAGA-Trading-agent-environment">
  <title><![CDATA[Using Semantic web technology in Multi-Agent systems: a case study in the TAGA Trading agent environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/87/Using-Semantic-web-technology-in-Multi-Agent-systems-a-case-study-in-the-TAGA-Trading-agent-environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is the framework that
extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC)
scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi agent environment
based on FIPA compliant pla tforms. TAGA uses the semantic web
languages and tools (RDF and OWL) to specify and publish the
underlying common ontologies; as a content language within the
FIPA ACL messages; as the basis for agent knowledge bases via
XSB-based reasoning tools; to describe and reason about s...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-09-30</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/115/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Security-for-the-Semantic-Web">
  <title><![CDATA[A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/115/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Security-for-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Semantic Web is a future generation of the current Web, where resources are annotated with machine understandable meta-data, allowing the automation of the retrieval and usage of these resources in their correct contexts. Along with developing specifications for the description of meta-data and the extraction of information, there is an immediate and critical need - the ability to maximize security in an environment that is fundamentally dynamic, open and devoid of many of the clues human...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-09-22</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/139/Strategies-and-heuristics-used-by-the-UMBCTAC-agent-in-the-third-Trading-Agent-Competition">
  <title><![CDATA[Strategies and heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the third Trading Agent Competition]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/139/Strategies-and-heuristics-used-by-the-UMBCTAC-agent-in-the-third-Trading-Agent-Competition</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The UMBCTAC agent was one of the top ranked agents in the third international Trading Agent Com-petition (TAC'02). This paper describes and evalu-ates the key heuristics used by UMBCTAC, includ-ing the early bird heuristic, the balance heuristic, and the separation heuristic. We developed a simple gain-risk model to search safe and profitable allocations for hotel rooms and airline tickets. We also used a novel probabilistic approach to dynamically allocate entertainment tickets and bid in en...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-08-13</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/79/Using-OWL-in-a-Pervasive-Computing-Broker</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment
in which agents with limited resources will require
external support to help them become context-aware.
In this paper, we describe an agent based architecture called
Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) to help these agents
to acquire, reason about and share context knowledge. A
key component in our architecture is an explicit context ontology
defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
This ontology models the basic c...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-07-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/246/Proceedings-of-the-Workshop-on-Ontologies-in-Agent-Systems-OAS-03">
  <title><![CDATA[Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS'03]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/246/Proceedings-of-the-Workshop-on-Ontologies-in-Agent-Systems-OAS-03</link>
  <description><![CDATA[There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies in agent systems as a means to facilitate interoperability among diverse software components, in particular, where interoperability is achieved through the explicit modelling of the intended meaning of the concepts used in the interaction between diverse information sources, software components and/or service-providing software. The problems arising from the creation, maintenance, use and sharing of such semantic descriptions are perceived ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-07-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/80/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/80/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context-aware computing is an emerging paradigm to free everyday users
from manually configuring and instructing computer systems. As the general
trend of computing is progressing towards an open and dynamic infrastructure,
building context-aware systems can be difficult and costly. In order to build
successful context-aware systems, we must develop an architecture to reduce the
difficulty and cost of building these systems. This PhD. dissertation proposal
describes a research plan to d...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-12-31</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/75/Allia-Alliance-based-Service-Discovery-for-Ad-Hoc-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery for Ad-Hoc Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/75/Allia-Alliance-based-Service-Discovery-for-Ad-Hoc-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Static directory based service discovery is unsuitable for m-commerce
 in ad-hoc environments. In this paper, we present Allia: a
 peer-to-peer caching based and policy-driven agent-service discovery
 framework to facilitate cross-platform service discovery in ad-hoc   
 environments for mobile electronic commerce applications. Our
 approach removes the problems associated with structured compound
 formation of agent communities in mobile commerce environment and
 achieves high degree ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-09-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/54/Vigil-Providing-Trust-for-Enhanced-Security-in-Pervasive-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[Vigil: Providing Trust for Enhanced Security in Pervasive Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/54/Vigil-Providing-Trust-for-Enhanced-Security-in-Pervasive-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Computing today is moving away from the desktop, becoming diffused into our surroundings and onto
our personal digital devices. Moreover, ad-hoc networks such as Bluetooth provide for spontaneous connectivity
between computationally enabled devices within proximity to each other. In such pervasive computing
environments, users expect to access resources and services at any time from anywhere. This expectation
results in serious security issues, since devices are constantly interacting wit...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-08-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/81/Beyond-Distributed-AI-Agent-Teamwork-in-Ubiquitous-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/81/Beyond-Distributed-AI-Agent-Teamwork-in-Ubiquitous-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of
Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining
agent teamwork theory to explain how agents should act
together as a team and in developing programming frameworks
to simulate team coordinations in software environment.
With the advent of ubiquitous computing technology,
agent teamwork research will be pushed to its limit, facing
new challenges in an open environment with a higher degree
of uncertainty. The objective of...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-07-16</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/147/Semantic-resolution-for-e-commerce">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic resolution for e-commerce]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/147/Semantic-resolution-for-e-commerce</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a research project on resolving semantic differences for multi-agent systems (MAS) in electronic commerce. The approach can be characterized as follows: (1) agents in a MAS may have their own specific ontologies defined on top of a shared base ontology; (2) concepts in these ontologies are represented as frame-like structures based on DAML+OIL language; (3) the semantic differences between agents are resolved at runtime through inter-agent communication; and (4) the resolution is...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-07-05</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/46/Agents-Making-Sense-of-the-Semantic-Web">
  <title><![CDATA[Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/46/Agents-Making-Sense-of-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Effective use of the vast quantity of available information and services
on the Internet will require multi-agent systems to be tightly integrated with existing
web infrastructure. This however will be impossible unless the information on
the web is presented in a semantic language, such as the DARPA Agent Markup
Language (DAML), which is one aim of the "Semantic Web". As part of our
exploration of Semantic Web technology, and DAML in particular, we have constructed
ITTALKS, a web-based...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-01-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/43/ITtalks-A-Case-Study-in-the-Semantic-Web-and-DAML-OIL">
  <title><![CDATA[ITtalks: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML+OIL]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/43/ITtalks-A-Case-Study-in-the-Semantic-Web-and-DAML-OIL</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Semantic Web markup
languages will improve
the automated gathering
and processing of
information and help
integrate multiagent
systems with the
existing information
infrastructure. In this
article, the authors
describe their ITtalks
system and discuss how
Semantic Web concepts
and DAML+OIL extend
its ability to provide an
intelligent online service.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-01-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/148/Steps-Towards-Creating-a-Context-Aware-Agent-System">
  <title><![CDATA[Steps Towards Creating a Context-Aware Agent System]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/148/Steps-Towards-Creating-a-Context-Aware-Agent-System</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The ability to reason from context is crucial to human communication. It allows a large amount of implicit information to be conveyed with a small amount of explicit description. If the same kind of ability can be provided to software agents, then these agents, even with little built-in knowledge, can adjust their behaviors according to the available implicit information in the environment. This document describes our research in prototyping the CoolAgent Recommendation system (CoolAgent RS)....]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-27</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/82/Creating-Context-Aware-Software-Agents">
  <title><![CDATA[Creating Context-Aware Software Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/82/Creating-Context-Aware-Software-Agents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Sharing ontologies, sensing context and reasoning are crucial to the
realization of context-aware software agents. This document de-
scribes our efforts in using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
and Prolog Forward Chaining (Pfc) system to provide support for
ontology sharing and reasoning in the CoolAgent Recommendation System
(CoolAgent RS), a context-aware multi-agent system. We also describes
the implementation of the CoolAgent RS document and cuisine
recommendation services...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-26</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/90/Agents2Go-An-Infrastructure-for-Location-Dependent-Service-Discovery-in-the-Mobile-Electronic-Commerce-Environment">
  <title><![CDATA[Agents2Go: An Infrastructure for Location-Dependent Service Discovery in the Mobile Electronic Commerce Environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/90/Agents2Go-An-Infrastructure-for-Location-Dependent-Service-Discovery-in-the-Mobile-Electronic-Commerce-Environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In recent years, the growth of Electronic Commerce and Mobile
Computing has created a new concept of Mobile Electronic
Commerce. In this paper we describe the Agents2Go System that
attempts to solve problems related to location dependence that
arise in a Mobile Electronic Commerce environment. Agents2Go
is a distributed system that provides mobile users with the ability
to obtain location dependent services and information. Our
system also automatically obtains a user�s current geogr...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-07-14</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/120/A-Framework-for-Distributed-Trust-Management">
  <title><![CDATA[A Framework for Distributed Trust Management]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/120/A-Framework-for-Distributed-Trust-Management</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This paper discusses our infrastructure for handling distributed security and trust. It outlines a method for access control
across domains that handles complex inter domain trust relationships. We have developed a flexible representation of trust
information in Prolog, that can model permissions and delegations. We are currently working on modeling obligations,
entitlements, and prohibitions as well. This paper describes a scheme for restricting re-delegation without using a specific
del...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-05-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/83/Dynamic-Service-Discovery-for-Mobile-Computing-Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Jini-in-the-Aether">
  <title><![CDATA[Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/83/Dynamic-Service-Discovery-for-Mobile-Computing-Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Jini-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The emergence of ad-hoc pervasive connectivity for devices
based on Bluetooth-like systems provides a new way to create applications for mobile systems. We seek to realize ubiquitous computing systems based on the cooperation of autonomous, dynamic and adaptive components (hardware as
well as software) which are located in vicinity of one another.
In this paper we present this vision. We also describe a prototype system we have developed that implements parts of
this vision { in particula...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-02-28</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/229/Using-Colored-Petri-Nets-for-Conversation-Modeling">
  <title><![CDATA[Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/229/Using-Colored-Petri-Nets-for-Conversation-Modeling</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses.  Finite State Machines, used heavily to date for this purpose, are not sufficient for complex agent interactions requiring a notion of concurrency. We propose the use of Colored Petri Nets as a model underlying a language for conversation specification. This carries the relative simplicity and graphical r...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2000-09-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/86/Developing-a-Dynamic-Distributed-Intelligent-Agent-Framework-Based-on-the-Jini-Architecture">
  <title><![CDATA[Developing a Dynamic Distributed Intelligent Agent Framework Based on the Jini Architecture]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/86/Developing-a-Dynamic-Distributed-Intelligent-Agent-Framework-Based-on-the-Jini-Architecture</link>
  <dc:date>1999-12-31</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/233/An-Agent-based-Infrastructure-for-Enterprise-Integration">
  <title><![CDATA[An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/233/An-Agent-based-Infrastructure-for-Enterprise-Integration</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the
KQML agent communication language. Some features that
make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation
management facilities, flexible, blackboard style
interface and ease of integration. Jackal has been developed
in support of an investigation of the use of agents
in enterprise-wide integration of planning and execution
for manufacturing. This paper describes Jackal at a surface
and design level, and demonstr...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-10-03</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/234/Communicating-neural-network-knowledge-between-agents-in-a-simulated-aerial-reconnaissance-system">
  <title><![CDATA[Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated aerial reconnaissance system]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/234/Communicating-neural-network-knowledge-between-agents-in-a-simulated-aerial-reconnaissance-system</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In order to maintain their performance in a dynamic environment,
agents may be required to modify their learning
behavior during run-time. If an agent utilizes a rule-based
system for learning, new rules may be easily communicated
to the agent in order to modify the way in which it learns.
However, if an agent utilizes a connectionist-based system
for learning, the way in which the agent learns typically
remains static. This is due, in part, to a lack of research
in communicating subs...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-10-03</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/130/An-Agent-System-for-Application-Initialization-in-an-Integrated-Manufacturing-Environment">
  <title><![CDATA[An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/130/An-Agent-System-for-Application-Initialization-in-an-Integrated-Manufacturing-Environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A great deal of research and development effort has been
undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected
manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application
software systems so that the enterprises can react quickly and
accurately to the ever changing market dynamics. In such an
integrated P/E environment it is, at times, necessary to bring in
a new application in order to replace an outmoded one or to
provide functionality that is not available in the existing
envi...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-08-04</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/252/Negotiating-agents-for-supply-chain-management">
  <title><![CDATA[Negotiating agents for supply chain management]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/252/Negotiating-agents-for-supply-chain-management</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A supply chain is a network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers, through which raw materials are
acquired, transformed, produced and delivered to the customer. A
supply chain management system (SCMS) manages the
cooperation of these system components. In the computational
world, roles of individual entities in a supply chain can be
implemented as distinct agents. The functions and procedures of
a company in the real market are complicated and include...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-07-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/254/Modeling-agent-conversations-with-colored-petri-nets">
  <title><![CDATA[Modeling agent conversations with colored petri nets]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/254/Modeling-agent-conversations-with-colored-petri-nets</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Conversations are a useful means of structuring communica-
tive interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-
based approach is largely determined by the conversational
model it uses. Finite State Machines, used heavily to date
for this purpose, are not sucient for complex agent inter-
actions requiring a notion of concurrency. We propose the
use of Colored Petri Nets as a model underlying a language
for conversation specication. This carries the relative sim-
plicity and ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-05-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/99/On-Mobility-and-Agents">
  <title><![CDATA[On Mobility and Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/99/On-Mobility-and-Agents</link>
  <dc:date>1999-03-24</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/256/The-current-landscape-of-Agent-Communication-Languages">
  <title><![CDATA[The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/256/The-current-landscape-of-Agent-Communication-Languages</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Despite the substantial number of multi-agent systems
that use an Agent Communication Language (ACL) the dust
has not settled yet over the landscape of ACLs. The semantic
specification issues have monopolized the debate at
the expense of other important pragmatic issues that must
be adequately resolved in the immediate future if ACLs
are going to support the development of robust agent systems.
After introducing some of the basic concepts relating
to Agent Communication Languages, we ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-03-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/255/The-Interoperability-Problem-Bringing-together-Mobile-Agents-and-Agent-Communication-Languages-">
  <title><![CDATA[The Interoperability Problem: Bringing together Mobile Agents and Agent Communication Languages,]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/255/The-Interoperability-Problem-Bringing-together-Mobile-Agents-and-Agent-Communication-Languages-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Interoperability is a central issue for both the mobile
agents community and the wider agents community. Unfortunately,
the interoperability concerns are different between
the two communities. As a result, inter-agent communication
is an issue that has been addressed in a limited manner
by the mobile agents community. Agent communication
languages (ACLs) have been developed as tools with the
capacity to integrate disparate sources of information and
support interoperability but have a...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1999-01-05</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/322/A-multi-agent-system-for-enterprise-integration">
  <title><![CDATA[A multi-agent system for enterprise integration]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/322/A-multi-agent-system-for-enterprise-integration</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The production management system used by most manufacturers today is comprised of
disconnected planning and execution processes, and lacks the support for interoperability for enterprise
wide integration. This situation often prevents the manufacturer from fully exploring market opportunities
in a timely fashion. To address this problem, we propose an agent-based framework for intelligent
enterprise integration. A set of agents with specialized expertise can be quickly assembled to help w...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1998-12-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/323/Supporting-Human-Interactions-within-Integrated-Manufacturing-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[Supporting Human Interactions within Integrated Manufacturing Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/323/Supporting-Human-Interactions-within-Integrated-Manufacturing-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Application integration is a focus of many major research initiatives. A driving force behind
application integration is a desire for enterprise-wide integration of organizational business
processes. On the surface, increased application integration appears advantageous – people are
freed from mundane tasks and thus can focus on more serious issues. Yet, there are consequences
that are not always recognized or appreciated. Specifically, the relevance of human participation
within integ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1998-12-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/346/Jackal-a-Java-based-Tool-for-Agent-Development">
  <title><![CDATA[Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/346/Jackal-a-Java-based-Tool-for-Agent-Development</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the
KQML agent communication language. Some features
which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management facilities, 
flexible, blackboard style interface and ease of integration.
Jackal has been developed in support of an investigation of the use of agents in shop 
oor information 
ow.
This paper describes Jackal at a surface and design
level, and presents an example of its use in agent construction.]]></description>
  <dc:date>1998-07-26</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/324/Mobile-agents-can-benefit-from-standards-efforts-on-interagent-communication">
  <title><![CDATA[Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts on interagent communication]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/324/Mobile-agents-can-benefit-from-standards-efforts-on-interagent-communication</link>
  <description><![CDATA[On the road for the future success of mobile agents, we believe that inter-agent
communication is an issue that has not been adequately addressed by the mobile
agents community. Supplementing mobile agents with the ability to interact with
other mobile or static agents, or agentified information sources is a necessity in
the vastly heterogeneous arena where mobile agents are called to compete. Thus,
an agent communication language should be interpreted as a tool with the capacity
to int...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1998-07-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/345/Personal-Security-Agent-KQML-based-PKI">
  <title><![CDATA[Personal Security Agent: KQML-based PKI]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/345/Personal-Security-Agent-KQML-based-PKI</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Certificate management infrastructure, a.k.a. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure),
which issues and provides access to public key certificates
to preserve the integrity of a public key, is fundamental for
electronic commerce and business across the Internet. To satisfy
the requirements of various applications, PKI should demonstrate
customization to user needs, interoperability and flexibility in its
implementations so it can satisfy the needs of various applications.
Particularly, due to ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1998-05-09</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/200/Semantics-for-an-Agent-Communication-Language">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantics for an Agent Communication Language]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/200/Semantics-for-an-Agent-Communication-Language</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the specification and semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML), and the logical architecture of KQML--speaking agents are investigated. KQML is a language and protocol to support communication between (intelligent) software agents. First, we present a new specification for the KQML language that corrects a number of outstanding problems. Then, based on ideas from speech act theory, we propos...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1996-08-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/349/Evaluating-KQML-as-an-agent-communication-language">
  <title><![CDATA[Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/349/Evaluating-KQML-as-an-agent-communication-language</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This chapter discusses the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata are divided into seven categories: form, content, semantics, implementation, networking, environment and reliability. TheKnowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) is a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge.  This work is partof a larger effort, the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, which is aimed at developing techni...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1996-01-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/469/The-Cycic-Friends-Network-getting-Cyc-agents-to-reason-together">
  <title><![CDATA[The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/469/The-Cycic-Friends-Network-getting-Cyc-agents-to-reason-together</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe the initial results of a project aimed at adapting the Cyc system for use in an agent architecture. Two Cyc systems that share a large common core of knowledge but differ in additional knowledge they possess were able to reason together to solve problems that neither could solve on its own. A rudimentary interface was constructed for Cyc that allowed it to communicate with other KQML-speaking agents. The Cyc reasoning algorithm was modified to allow it to ask other agents for help...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1995-12-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/330/KQML-as-an-agent-communication-language">
  <title><![CDATA[KQML as an agent communication language]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/330/KQML-as-an-agent-communication-language</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This paper describes the design of and experimentation with the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML), a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. This work is part of a larger effort, the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort which is aimed at developing techniques and methodology for building large-scale knowledge bases which are sharable and reusable. KQML is both a message format and a message-handling protocol to support run-time knowledge sharing among agent...]]></description>
  <dc:date>1994-10-29</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/282/A-Multiagent-Based-Synergistic-Approach-For-Software-Fault-Tolerance">
  <title><![CDATA[A Multiagent-Based Synergistic Approach For  Software Fault Tolerance]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/282/A-Multiagent-Based-Synergistic-Approach-For-Software-Fault-Tolerance</link>
  <description><![CDATA[As computing becomes pervasive, there are increasing opportunities for the use of collaborative multiagent systems that make use of multiple sources of knowledge for validation, accuracy, and reliability improvement purposes. Application areas include multiple classifier systems, multiple sensor fusion, and redundancy-based software fault tolerant systems. The focus of this work is on the area of software fault tolerance. Most of the practical implementations of software fault tolerant strate...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-11-09</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[A2G Slides]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/142/A2G-Slides</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Agents2Go Slides

With the proliferation of mobile computing, more and more people use a variety of mobile devices in their dally lives. Recent years have also seen a remarkable growth in Electronic Commerce. The merger of these concepts has resulted in the emergence of Mobile Electronic Commerce (M-Commerce).
One of the most critical requirements for M-Commerce is the ability to discover services in a given context. An important component of a user's context is their current location. For...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-02</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Agent Communication in the Semantic Web Era and Beyond]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/220/Agent-Communication-in-the-Semantic-Web-Era-and-Beyond</link>
  <dc:date>2007-04-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[NOWHERE: A Knowledge Level Agent Programming Infrastructure]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/200/NOWHERE-A-Knowledge-Level-Agent-Programming-Infrastructure</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Nowhere is an open source agent platform for programming personal agents. It provides a set of primitives that can be easily coded to every programming language, enabling the communication between agents written in different languages, running on different platforms on the internet. Nowhere focuses on Knowledge Level Programming: the developer does not have to explicitly manage with low level details such as network problems, agents crashes or even physical addresses of agents, using an anony...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[OWL Leaves the Nest -- Knowledge Integration for Ubiquitious Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/157/OWL-Leaves-the-Nest-Knowledge-Integration-for-Ubiquitious-Agents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-04</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[OWL Leaves the Nest -- Knowledge Integration for Ubiquitious Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/158/OWL-Leaves-the-Nest-Knowledge-Integration-for-Ubiquitious-Agents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-04</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[NOWHERE: A Knowledge Level Agent Programming Infrastructure]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/170/NOWHERE-A-Knowledge-Level-Agent-Programming-Infrastructure</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Nowhere is an open source agent platform for programming personal agents. It 
provides a set of primitives that can be easily coded to every programming 
language, enabling the communication between agents written in different 
languages, running on different platforms on the internet.
Nowhere focuses on Knowledge Level Programming: the developer does not have to 
explicitly manage with low level details such as network problems, agents 
crashes or even physical addresses of agents, usi...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[MISSION: Multiagent Institutions for Sensor Networks]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/160/MISSION-Multiagent-Institutions-for-Sensor-Networks</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Advancements in Micro-electro Mechanical Systems and wireless
communication systems have enabled the building of compact and inexpensive
sensor motes that have reasonable processing power and memory, onboard.
These motes could be networked to form a Wireless Sensor Network that
would enable data collection from physical environment done autonomously.
This could enable more sophisticated battlefield surveillance,
environmental monitoring, industrial process control and disaster rescue.
...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-06-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Using Cognitive Psychology to Solve Robotics Problems: An Introduction to Cognitive Robotics]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/132/Using-Cognitive-Psychology-to-Solve-Robotics-Problems-An-Introduction-to-Cognitive-Robotics</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This talk will describe the ongoing development of a robotic control architecture that was inspired by computational cognitive architectures from the discipline of cognitive psychology. The robotic control architecture combines symbolic and sub-symbolic representations of knowledge into a unified control structure. The architecture is organized as a goal-driven, serially executing production system at the highest symbolic level, and as a multiple-algorithm, parallel-executing, simple collecti...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-02-10</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Model For Trust And Reputation: competence, integrity, and forgiveness in multi-agent systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/127/A-Model-For-Trust-And-Reputation-competence-integrity-and-forgiveness-in-multi-agent-systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Autonomous agents in heterogeneous, open systems face the
difficult problem of establishing and maintaining beneficial
relationships. Open social networks -- whether composed of
humans, machines, or some combination -- give rise to a need
for modeling inter-agent trust and reputation. A means to
guard against other agents failing to meet their commitments
is crucial. Such environments typically have no effective
mechanism for authority or enforcement. Lacking an
enforcement mechanism,...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-21</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Organizational Learning and Network Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/124/Organizational-Learning-and-Network-Adaptation-in-Multi-Agent-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In both real and artificial societies, successful organizations are
highly dependent upon a structure that fosters effective and efficient
behavior at both the individual and the organizational levels. In
multi-agent systems, groups of agents must coordinate effectively in
order to solve problems, allocate tasks across a distributed
organization, collectively distribute knowledge and information, and
achieve collective goals.  The organizational structure of a
multi-agent system dictat...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-14</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA["Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/43/-Intelligent-Agents-meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The concept of an agent is ubiquitous in Computer Science. We employ it to talk about and to model a wide range of things from physical robots, to modules in client-server architectures, to human, to Internet-based information retrieval programs, to intelligent personal assistants. During the past decade a "software agents" paradigm has
emerged which views agents as autonomous, cooperating processes which use rich agent communication languages to exchange information and knowledge and to coo...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-20</dc:date>
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