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  <title><![CDATA[OWL leaves the nest]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/121/OWL-leaves-the-nest</link>
  <description><![CDATA[OWL leaves the nest


a panel at the 

2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series
First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web
16:00-17:30 Friday 4 November 2005
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington VA



Panelists

 Tim Finin, UMBC, Baltimore MD (moderator)

Norman Sadeh, CMU, Pittsburgh PA

Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, College Park MD

Harry Lik Chen, Image Matters LLC, Leesburg VA

Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum Company, Vienna VA


Althoug...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-04</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Multiagent Systems meet the Semantic Web in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/111/Multiagent-Systems-meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A multiagent systems paradigm has emerged in which autonomous,
cooperating processes use rich communication languages and
protocols to exchange information and knowledge, share goals and
tasks, and coordinate their activities.  This vision offers ways
to exploit new opportunities of and solve problems created by the
Internet and Web. Yet multiagent systems have not yet found broad
application.  The vision is sound and is being re-invigorated by
two new developments: semantic web langua...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-18</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Development of Task Computing Applications and Devices]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/87/Development-of-Task-Computing-Applications-and-Devices</link>
  <description><![CDATA[To make Task Computing Environment more attractive and appeal it to 
customers, Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan has developed some applications
and devices based on TCE architecture.  We built demonstrations for an
office scene and a car system(ITS) combining with other technologies,
Spatial Information System(SIS) and ubiquitous IP phone.  These
demonstrations have given many people a very novel impression of
pervasive computing in the future.

Besides these applications, we have devel...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-03-10</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/58/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Governing-Autonomous-Behavior-in-Distributed-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/58/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Governing-Autonomous-Behavior-in-Distributed-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Many emerging computational systems such as pervasive computing environments, the semantic web, grid computing, and multi-agent systems fit the paradigm of open, dynamic distributed systems.  These
systems have to accommodate a wide range of domain knowledge due to diverse organizational boundaries, adapt to heterogeneous, mobile, and
semi-autonomous entities, and manage variations caused by the movement of users, ambiguous boundaries, and permutable services.


While past research has...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-09-15</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ontologies for mobile and pervasive computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/49/Ontologies-for-mobile-and-pervasive-computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This tutorial by TIm Finin and Harry Chen provides an overview of the use of ontologies
and semantic web languages in mobile and pervasive computing
Applications.  In information systems, ontologies are
explicit formal specifications of a domain's concepts,
objects, and relations. Ontologies provide both a model of
information to be represented and a vocabulary to use in
describing it.  The semantic web languages RDF and OWL have
been developed and standardized by the W3C to allow data...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-08-22</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/46/Intelligent-agents-meet-the-semantic-web-in-the-aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The software agents paradigm has received considerable research but has not yet found broad application. The vision is still sound and will be re-invigorated by two new developments: semantic web languages, which provide stronger knowledge sharing technology, and the emergence of pervasive computing environments, whose requirements match the strengths of multiagent systems.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-27</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/43/-Intelligent-Agents-meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-the-Aether">
  <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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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/15/My-Experience-in-Building-Ontology-driven-Applications">
  <title><![CDATA[My Experience in Building Ontology-driven Applications]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/15/My-Experience-in-Building-Ontology-driven-Applications</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In this presentation I describe the role of OWL ontologies in pervasive computing systems, the ontology development cycle and pitfalls. A short review of the different kinds of ontology tools is also presented.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-02-09</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/7/Semantic-Tuple-Spaces-A-Coordination</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The vision of the Semantic Web expands on the vision of the WWW by
associating accessible formal semantics with content and services, and
where web pages, databases, personal devices and home appliances are
all producers and consumers of information. In a Pervasive Computing
environment the user interacts with his environment as opposed to a
specific device. Important research challenges in such an environment
include auto-configuration of entities, context-sensitive behavior and
the c...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-01-26</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finin gives invited talk at AAAI 2004]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/27/Finin-gives-invited-talk-at-AAAI-2004</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Tim Finin will give an
invited talk on Intelligent Agents
meet the Semantic Web in the Aether at the Nineteenth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04) sponsored by the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence.  The AAAI-04
Conference was held in San Jose, California, at the San Jose
Convention Center, from 25-29 July, 2004.

 Finin's talk will focus on new uses of intelligent software agents
and multiagent systems.   "The software agents paradigm
has receiv...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-08-27</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Three new PhDs]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/10/Three-new-PhDs</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Three ebiquity Ph.D students defended their dissertation
research and graduated in the Spring of 2004.  Doctors Filip
Perich, Jeff
Undercoffer and Youyong
Zou were hooded and received their diplomas at the UMBC
graduation on May 19, 2004.

 Dr. Filip Perich investigated data management problems
in pervasive computing environments, with the support of
National Science Foundation. He developed and validated
protocols for data discovery, routing, querying,
transactional support, and ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-05-19</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[SW-UBICOMP-INTEREST SIG formed]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/6/SW-UBICOMP-INTEREST-SIG-formed</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Semantic Web in
UbiComp SIG (SW-UbiComp-SIG) is an open community for exploring
the use of Semantic Web technology in building Pervasive/Ubiquitous
Computing applications.  The group's current goal is to define a
standard ontology to support pervasive computing applications (see our
web site for the draft proposal). This includes OWL ontologies for
person, device, time, space, event, digital documents, and policy (for
security and privacy).  SW-UbiComp-SIG welcomes anyone who is
inter...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-27</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/1/Context-Broker-Architecture-CoBrA-">
  <title><![CDATA[Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA)]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/1/Context-Broker-Architecture-CoBrA-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and smart vehicles). Central to this architecture is an intelligent agent called  context broker that maintains a shared model of context on the behalf of a community of agents, services, and devices in the space and provides privacy protections for the users in the space by enforcing the policy rules that they define.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/38/eBiquitous-task-computing">
  <title><![CDATA[eBiquitous task computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/38/eBiquitous-task-computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Colleagues at Fujitsu's FLACP have implemented a very interesting
envinment that they call "Task Computing Environment" (TCE) that uses
standard Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, DAML-S) and Web Services (SOAP, WSDL)
technology to define, disconver, compose and deliver services.  Their
original vision was to use TCE to provide services in a pervasive
computing environment, but the framework and approach work equally
well for services in a wired environment.  



A good project would be to int...]]></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>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/2/MoGATU-Data-Management-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[MoGATU: Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/2/MoGATU-Data-Management-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The past few years have seen significant work in mobile data management, typically based on the client/proxy/server model. Mobile/wireless devices are treated as clients that are data consumers only, while data sources are on servers that typically reside on the wired network. With the advent of pervasive computing environments, an alternative scenario arises where mobile devices gather and exchange data from not just wired sources, but also from their ethereal environment and one another. Th...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/26/Ontology-Editor-for-Eclipse">
  <title><![CDATA[Ontology Editor for Eclipse]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/26/Ontology-Editor-for-Eclipse</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In computer science, policies are rules and
constraints that govern the behavior of software agents. The use of
policies makes systems more flexible by separating the declarative
components of the system from its implementation. Policies are usually
expressed in a readable declarative language that can be understood by
a human. Policy based security model defines rules for access control,
authorization, and authentication of software objects and entities,
and can be greatly beneficia...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-08-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/40/Presence-Monitoring-System">
  <title><![CDATA[Presence Monitoring System]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/40/Presence-Monitoring-System</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Objective. The objective is to develop a distributed system that is capable of monitoring user presence in an office environment and reporting the updated information to the registered context brokers. This monitoring system will use different sensing techniques to detect user presence, for example, detecting the network connections made by Bluetooth devices, monitoring user logins on the UNIX servers and desktop computers, reading the RFID tags attached to the devices that a user carries, an...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-11-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rei : A Policy Specification Language]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/34/Rei-A-Policy-Specification-Language</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Security is a critical problem in dynamic and open distributed
environments such as those enabled by the semantic web and pervasive computing technologies. The presence of heterogeneous entities that
are neither pre-determined nor permanent, and the lack of central
control are some of its challenges.  We believe that declarative
policies address this problem while maintaining openness and
flexibility.  We propose the use of policies defined in OWL to
constrain the behavior of entities i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-04-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/10/Securing-the-Semantic-Web-A-Trust-Management-Approach">
  <title><![CDATA[Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/10/Securing-the-Semantic-Web-A-Trust-Management-Approach</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A three year project funded by NSF (final approval pending) directed by PI Tm Finin and CO-PI Anupam Joshi to be carried out 2003-2006 with $240K in funding from the NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Data and Applications Security Program under the direction of program officer Bhavani Thuraisingham.

This research investigates distributed trust management as an alternative to traditional authentication and access control schemes in dynamic and pen computing environments ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-06-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/416/Streaming-Knowledge-Bases">
  <title><![CDATA[Streaming Knowledge Bases]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/416/Streaming-Knowledge-Bases</link>
  <description><![CDATA[With the advent of pervasive computing, we encounter many scenarios where data is constantly flowing between sensors and applications.  The volume of data produced is large, and so is the rate of the data flow.  In such scenarios, knowledge extraction boils down to finding useful information, i.e., detecting events of interest. Typical use cases where event detection is of paramount importance are surveillance, tracking, telecommunications data management, disease outburst detection, and envi...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-10-26</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/321/Toward-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Toward Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/321/Toward-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to describe service groups and use this semantic informa...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-02-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/238/The-SOUPA-Ontology-for-Pervasive-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/238/The-SOUPA-Ontology-for-Pervasive-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous
and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Con-
text Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new agent architecture for
supporting pervasive context-aware systems in a smart space environment.
The SOUPA ontology is expressed using the Web Ontology Language OWL
and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents
with associated beliefs, desire, and intentions, time, space, e...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-07-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Policy-based Access Control for Task Computing Using Rei]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/220/Policy-based-Access-Control-for-Task-Computing-Using-Rei</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In this paper, we describe a policy-based access control
implementation for Task Computing using the Rei policy engine.  Task
Computing lets ordinary end-users accomplish complex tasks on the fly
from an open, dynamic, and distributed "universe of network-accessible
resources" in ubiquitous computing environments as well as those on
the Internet.  The Rei policy specification language is an expressive
and extensible language based on Semantic Web technologies. The Rei
policy engine rea...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-05-10</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/201/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-Smart-Spaces">
  <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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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/210/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Governing-Autonomous-Behavior-in-Distributed-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/210/A-Policy-Based-Approach-to-Governing-Autonomous-Behavior-in-Distributed-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Many emerging computational systems such as pervasive computing
environments, the semantic web, grid computing, and multi-agent
systems fit the paradigm of open, dynamic distributed systems. These
systems have to accommodate a wide range of domain knowledge due to
diverse organizational boundaries, adapt to heterogeneous, mobile, and
semi-autonomous entities, and manage variations caused by the movement
of users, ambiguous boundaries, and permutable services.  

 While past research ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-09-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/293/sTuples-Semantic-Tuple-Spaces">
  <title><![CDATA[sTuples: Semantic Tuple Spaces]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/293/sTuples-Semantic-Tuple-Spaces</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Tuple spaces offer a coordination infrastructure for communication between autonomous entities by providing a logically shared memory along with data persistence, transactional security as well as temporal and spatial decoupling - properties that make it desirable in distributed systems for e-commerce and pervasive computing applications. In most tuple space implementations, tuples are retrieved by employing type-value matching of ordered tuples, object-based polymorphic matching, or XML-styl...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-08-22</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1208/Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-on-the-Wire-and-in-the-Aether">
  <title><![CDATA[Agents Meet the Semantic Web on the Wire and in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1208/Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-on-the-Wire-and-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The software agents paradigm has received considerable research, but has not yet found broad application. The vision is still sound and will be reinvigorated by two new developments: semantic web languages, which provide stronger knowledge-sharing technology, and the emergence of pervasive computing environments, whose requirements match the strengths of multi-agent systems.

Slides of an invited talk given at AAAI 2004. Joint work with Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Scott Cost & many students]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-27</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/156/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Semantic-Web-in-a-Smart-Meeting-Room">
  <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/resource/html/id/12/A-Proposal-for-Pervasive-Computing-Standard-Ontology">
  <title><![CDATA[A Proposal for Pervasive Computing Standard Ontology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/12/A-Proposal-for-Pervasive-Computing-Standard-Ontology</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This document describes a proposal for defining a standard ontology for supporting knowledge sharing and communication interoperability in pervasive computing applications.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-06</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/42/AAAI-2004-talk-Finin-">
  <title><![CDATA[AAAI 2004 talk (Finin)]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/42/AAAI-2004-talk-Finin-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The software agents paradigm has received considerable research but has not yet found broad application. The vision is still sound and will be re-invigorated by two new developments: semantic web languages, which provide stronger knowledge sharing technology, and the emergence of pervasive computing environments, whose requirements match the strengths of multiagent systems.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-27</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/75/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/75/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Presentation slides used in Harry Chen's PhD dissertation defense.

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 knowl...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-12-07</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/1/CoBrA">
  <title><![CDATA[CoBrA]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/1/CoBrA</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Context Broker Architecture Web Site]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/149/MATA-2005-keynote">
  <title><![CDATA[MATA 2005 keynote]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/149/MATA-2005-keynote</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A presentation from a keynote talk at the 2005 MATA workshop.

A multiagent systems paradigm has emerged in which autonomous, cooperating processes use rich communication languages and protocols to exchange information and knowledge, share goals and tasks, and coordinate their activities. This vision offers ways to exploit new opportunities of and solve problems created by the Internet and Web. Yet multiagent systems have not yet found broad application. The vision is sound and is being re-...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-18</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/2/MoGATU">
  <title><![CDATA[MoGATU]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/2/MoGATU</link>
  <description><![CDATA[MoGATU's web site]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-16</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/43/Ontologies-for-mobile-and-pervasive-computing">
  <title><![CDATA[Ontologies for mobile and pervasive computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/43/Ontologies-for-mobile-and-pervasive-computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This tutorial by TIm Finin and Harry Chen provides an overview of the use of ontologies and semantic web languages in mobile and pervasive computing Applications. In information systems, ontologies are explicit formal specifications of a domain's concepts, objects, and relations. Ontologies provide both a model of information to be represented and a vocabulary to use in describing it. The semantic web languages RDF and OWL have been developed and standardized by the W3C to allow data and know...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-08-03</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/13/Semantic-Web-in-UbiComp-SIG">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Web in UbiComp SIG]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/13/Semantic-Web-in-UbiComp-SIG</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Discussing the use of semantic web technologies (e.g., SW ontologies, SW languages RDF, RDFS, DAML+OWL, OWL, and ontology reasoners) in supporting ubiquitous computing systems.

This is an open discussion group. Related news and announcement posts are also welcome.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-16</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/188/Semantic-Web-Technologies-A-Tutorial">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Web Technologies: A Tutorial]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/188/Semantic-Web-Technologies-A-Tutorial</link>
  <description><![CDATA[People become "smarter" by using web search engines like Google to obtain relevant and useful information from the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web aims at making such knowledge more accessible to computer programs, i.e. building “a web of data, in some ways like a global database” as suggested by Tim Berners-Lee.  This tutorial gives an overview of Semantic Web technologies and their utility.

The Semantic Web technologies can be studied from two aspects. From the web aspect, Semantic ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-07-18</dc:date>
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