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UMBC Research on Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Some Assumptions and Biases
The Agent Paradigm
Why is communication important?
Agent Communication
Some ACLs
The intentional level, BDI theories, speech acts and ACLs: How do they all fit together?
Agents and agencies
Some Agent Research at UMBC
UMBC agent research
CIIMPLEX EECOMS
Manufacturing Enterprise Integration
CIIMPLEX Architecture
CIIMPLEX MAS Architecture
Supply Chain Enterprise Application Integration Global Visibility and Control of Business Processes across Apps
Negotiation among agents in the Supply Chain
General Problems
Specific Objectives
Specific Approach
1 Negotiation primitives
Examples of negotiation primitives
Defining negotiation protocols
2 An XML-based content
Laptop description seen “by eye”
HTML laptop description
XML Laptop Description
3 Controlling negotiating agents
Adjustable Autonomy
Recent Results
Jackal A Communications Infrastructure for Java-based Multi-agent Systems
Jackal Architecture: Overview
Conversation-based Protocols
Current Conversation Specification
Using Colored Peter Net Specifications
Jackal Message Distributor
Typical Components of a Multi-agent System
KQML Naming Scheme (KNS)
CARROT: Cooperating Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text
Conclusions
Some key ideas
Prospects
For More Information
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CARROT: Cooperating Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text
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Broker and back-end agents
Telltale
n-grams vs. words
Desiderata for Corpus Metadata
Telltale user interface
VR based visualization of retrieval
VR Approach
Visualizing a document space
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Linneaus
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