Table of Contents
Intelligent Software Agents
Overview
What’s an agent?
What is an agent? A brief tour of agent-space
What is a software agent?
So, what’s a software agent?
an emerging system-building paradigm
Software Agent Characteristics
Agent Characteristic: Adaptation
Agent Characteristic: Cooperation
Agent Characteristic: Autonomy
Agent Characteristic: Mobility?
Agent Characteristic: Intelligence?
Some key ideas
Examples
Agent-Based Information Retrieval (ABIR) Mind Map
Knowbot ABIR Systems
Netbot Jango
Netbot Jango
Netbot Jango
Fab -- Adaptive IR
Collaborative Filtering
How Does Collaborative Filtering Work?
Example: Firefly
SysKill & Webert
Example: Remembrance Agent
Example: Letizia
Example: TopicAGENTs
A Sampling of Agent Research at UMBC
Agent Communication
Knowledge Sharing Effort
Knowledge Interchange Format
KIF Syntax and Semantics
Common Semantics Shared Ontologies and Ontolingua
Conceptual Schemas
Ontology Library and Editing Tools
KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
A KQML Message
Some KQML Performatives
Simple Query Performatives
KQML protocols
Semantics for tell(A,B,X)
KQML APIs and System Interfaces
Lockheed/UMBC KQML Software Architecture
KQML Utility Agents
KQML Utility Agents
Example -- TKQML
A Sample TKQML Agent
Some ACLs
Adding Semantic Information
Course Ontology
Example
PPT Slide
Linneaus
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
CARROT: Cooperating Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text
Key Ideas in Basic Architecture
PPT Slide
CARROT Back-end Agent
Telltale
Documents as term vectors
n-grams vs. words
VR based visualization of retrieval
VR Approach
Visualizing a document space
Conclusions
Some key ideas
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