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  <title><![CDATA[Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems]]></title>
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  <dc:date>2004-07-20</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[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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  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/5/META-LEVEL-CONTROL-IN-BOUNDED-RATIONAL-AGENTS</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Autonomous agents must make real-time decisions on the scheduling and
coordination of domain activities. These control decisions are made in
the context of limited resources and uncertainty about action
outcomes. The meta-level control problem is deciding how to sequence
domain and control actions without consuming too many resources in the
process. The state-of-the-art in agent architectures and control
algorithms does not explicitly reason about the cost of time and other
resources...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[UMBC and IBM collaborate on autonomic computing]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[University of Maryland, Baltimore County and IBM Collaborate on 
Autonomic Computing Research

BALTIMORE, February 24, 2005 - IBM today announced a new Shared University Research (SUR) grant awarded a group of faculty researchers of the eBiquity research group at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County to help build a major new center for high performance computational research. 

This SUR grant is part of the latest series of Shared University Research (SUR) awards, bringing IBM's ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-02-24</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rule-based and Ontology-based Policies: Toward a Hybrid Approach to Control Agents in Pervasive Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/274/Rule-based-and-Ontology-based-Policies-Toward-a-Hybrid-Approach-to-Control-Agents-in-Pervasive-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Policies are being increasingly used for controlling the behavior of
complex multi-agent systems. The use of policies allows administrators to regulate
agent behavior without changing source code or requiring the consent or
cooperation of the agents being governed. However, policy-based control can
sometimes encounter difficulties when applied to agents that act in pervasive
environments characterized by frequent and unpredictable changes. In such cases,
we cannot always specify policie...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-07</dc:date>
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  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/237/Ontologies-for-Agents-Theory-and-Experiences</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The volume aims at providing a comprehensive review of the diverse efforts covering the gap existing between the two main perspectives on the topic of ontologies for multi-agent systems. On the one hand, there is the knowledge modelling perspective; i.e. how ontologies should be modelled and represented in order to be effectively used in agent systems. On the other hand, there is the agent perspective; what kind of capabilities should be exhibited by an agent in order to make use of ontologic...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-07-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[F-OWL: an Inference Engine for the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/203/F-OWL-an-Inference-Engine-for-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Understanding and using the data and knowledge encoded in semantic web documents requires an inference engine. F-OWL is an inference engine for the semantic web language OWL language based on F-logic, an approach to defining frame-based systems in logic.  F-OWL is implemented using XSB and Flora-2 and takes full advantage of their features.  We describe how F-OWL computes ontology entailment and compare it with other description logic-based approaches. We also describe TAGA, a trading agent e...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-11-30</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[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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  <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 u...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
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  <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 a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario for Agentcities, an open multi-agent environment based on FIPA-compliant platforms. TAGA uses the semantic web languages and tools (RDF and OWL) to specify and publish the underlying common ontologies as a content language within FIPA ACL messages, as the basis for agent knowledge bases via XSB-based reasoning tools, and to describe and reason about services. TAGA exte...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-09-30</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (Demonstration)]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1144/TAGA-Travel-Market-Framework-in-Agentcities-Demonstration-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) system to work in Agentcities, an open multiagent systems environment of FIPA-compliant systems. TAGA makes several contributions: auction services are added to enrich the Agentcities environment, the use of the semantic web languages RDF and DAML+OIL improve the interoperability among agents, and the DAML-S ontology is employed to support service registration, discovery, and i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-08-10</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/63/A-Target-Centric-Ontology-for-Intrusion-Detection</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We present an approach to some security problems in multi-agent systems based on distributed trust and the delegation of permissions, and credibility. We assume an open environment in which agents must interact with other agents with which they are not familiar. In particular, an agent will receive requests and assertions from other agents and must decide how to act on the requests and assess the credibility of the assertions. In a closed environment, agents have well known and familiar trans...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-07-31</dc:date>
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  <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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  <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>
  <dc:date>2026-04-13</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/114/Intelligent-Agents-meet-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The concept of an agent is ubiquitous in Computer Science. During the past decade, a "software agents" paradigm has emerged, which views agents as autonomous, cooperating processes that use expressive communication languages to exchange information and knowledge and to coordinate their activities. This has been seen as a way to capitalize on opportunities (and solve many problems) created by the Internet and the Web. Yet the technology has not yet left our laboratories. Was it just another AI...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-04-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Theory and Practice ofAgent Communicationin the Semantic Web Era]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/399/Theory-and-Practice-of-Agent-Communication-in-the-Semantic-Web-Era</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This four-hour tutorial was given at the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems,  covered both introductory and intermediate concepts of the theory and practice of Agent Communication Languages in the Semantic Web era.

This tutorial focused on software agents as autonomous, cooperating processes that use rich agent communication languages to exchange information and knowledge and to coordinate their activities. It presented the general requirement...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-07-14</dc:date>
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