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	Autonomous Agents 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Agents are also one of the most important and exciting areas of research and development in computer science today.
		Agents are currently being applied in domains as diverse as computer games and interactive cinema, information retrieval and filtering, user interface design, electronic commerce, autonomous vehicles and spacecraft, and industrial process control.
		The Agents 2001 conference, like its predecessors, will focus primarily on systems that have been or are being implemented; theory papers are welcome provided that they clearly relate to such systems, for example by helping us to predict their behavior, explain, or understand them.
	www.csc.liv.ac.uk /~agents2001/about.html (473 words)

	Personal Autonomy
		Someone is an autonomous agent, the coherentists argue, if and only if she accepts her motives, or identifies with them, or approves of them, or believes that they make sense in terms of her long term commitments or plans.
		The emphasis on an autonomous agent's responsiveness to her own reasoning reflects the intuition that someone whose education consisted of a method of indoctrination that deprived her of the ability to call her own attitudes into question would, in effect, be governed by her “programmers,” not by herself.
		If agents cannot initiate their own actions “on purpose” without authorizing themselves (their motives) to do so, then the distinguishing feature of autonomous agents is not that they identify with their motives but that the authority they assert in doing so is more than a mere formality.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/personal-autonomy (7944 words)

	Agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		agent (law), a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
		free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
		biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agents (152 words)

	Autonomous Agents
		Agents perform computation and communication defined by a user, but the execution platforms are typically outside the user's administrative control (and outside the administrative control of the user's organization).
		The conceptual model of agent operation is one in which an intelligent agent, at the request of a user, goes to one or more remote hosts to perform a computation or gather information and then returns to the user with the result.
		An agent's mode of operation may range from partially to fully autonomous, and the degree to which an agent is autonomous may vary throughout the life of that agent.
	www.softheap.com /internet/autonomous-agents.html (303 words)

	Agent or Program
		She adds a crucial element to her definition of an agent: agents must act autonomously so as to "realize a set of goals." Also environments are restricted to being complex and dynamic.
		An autonomous agent is a system situated within and a part of an environment that senses that environment and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda and so as to effect what it senses in the future.
		For example, when a collection of scheduling agents gather to schedule a meeting between their users, they pursue a common goal and intelligent group behavior emerges (see Kautz, Selman, and Coen 1994 for a similar situation.) Yet, as a group, our definition of agent is not met in that persistence is missing.
	www.msci.memphis.edu /~franklin/AgentProg.html (4230 words)

	Autonomous Interface Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Autonomous interface agents lead to a somewhat different design style, brought on by the possibility that the agent may need to interact with the interface while the user is also interacting with the interface.
		An agent should display some [but perhaps not all] of the characteristics that we associate with human intelligence: learning, inference, adaptability, independence, creativity, etc. The user can be said to delegate a task to an agent rather than command the agent to perform the task [15].
		An interface agent could be considered to be a "robot" whose sensors and effectors are the input and output capabilities of the interface, and for that reason are sometimes also referred to as "softbots" [7].
	lieber.www.media.mit.edu /people/lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.html (5806 words)

	Issues surrounding autonomous agents - Introduction
		Autonomous agents are computer systems or software entities that are capable of independent action in dynamic, unpredictable environments.
		Agents may also be classified by the range and sensitivity of their senses, or by the range and effectiveness of their actions, or by how much internal state they possess.
		Agents have their origin in psychology, artificial intelligence, and distributed artificial intelligence, integrating learning, planning, reasoning, knowledge representation aspects, and have as goal to execute complex tasks benefiting users, that otherwise would be hard to accomplish.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/decimal/439/issuesintro.htm (1524 words)

	Agents
		[Pattie] Maes and her colleagues define an autonomous agent as a 'computational system' that can inhabit a complex, constantly changing environment, sense what is going on, and act independently to accomplish a specified set of tasks or achieve certain goals.
		An intelligent agent is a device that interacts with its environment in flexible, goal-directed ways, recognizing important states of the environment and acting to achieve desired results.
		Agents of Change - Autonomous agents are still in the labs but could eventually play a critical role in areas ranging from setting market prices to creating more resilient networks.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/agents.html (3496 words)

	Autonomous Agents '99 Home Page
		The aim of the Agents '99 conference is to bring together researchers and developers from industry and academia in order to report on the latest scientific and technical advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest systems.
		Agents '99 will build on the enormous successes of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (http://www.isi.edu/isd/AA97/info.html) held in Marina del Rey in February 1997, and The Second Conference (http://www.cis.udel.edu/~agents98/) held in Minneapolis/St. Paul in May 1998.
		The Agents '99 conference, like it predecessors, will focus primarily on systems that have been or are being implemented; theory papers are welcome provided that they clearly relate to such systems, for example helping us predict their behavior, explain, or understand them.
	www.cs.washington.edu /research/agents99 (440 words)

	IEEE Expert Intelligent Agents Article
		Autonomous Agents Group clearly has identified a group of good research projects under a common theme.
		That "autonomous" is emerging as an important characteristic does not mean that it is yet sufficiently well-defined a term to have a formal technical meaning.
		The protocol may be derived from a "strong" theory of agents, as advocated by Haddadi [Haddadi 96], or from a theory of design as with the Next-Link agent protocol.
	www-cdr.stanford.edu /NextLink/Expert.html (4691 words)

	Autonomous Agents as Embodied AI
		Autonomous Agents as Embodied AI by Stan Franklin
		Autonomous agents, more specifically cognitive agents, are offered as the appropriate objects of study for embodied AI.
		An autonomous agent is a system situated within and a part of an environment that senses that environment and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda and so as to effect what it senses in the future (Franklin and Graesser 1997).
	www.msci.memphis.edu /~franklin/AAEI.html (5618 words)

	Introduction to EKSL Research: Designing Autonomous Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The behavior of an autonomous agent is determined by the interaction of three factors: the environment in which the agent is operating, the task it is designed to accomplish, and the design of the agent itself (see figure below).
		The first step in designing an agent is a careful analysis of the environment and of the task to determine the agent's behavioral requirements.
		An agent architecture is then developed in an iterative process in which a design is implemented and the resulting behavior evaluated empirically for its "fit" to the task environment.
	eksl-www.cs.umass.edu /research/autonomous-agent-design.html (211 words)

	Autonomous Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is not meant to be an overview of all possible autonomous agents.
		My definition of autonomous agents is entirely self-centered; I include only those things I consider autonomous agents and only those links I consider to be particularly interesting.
		Generally speaking, I only consider a system to be an autonomous agent if it corresponds more or less to a representation of an animal, person, or character; i.e.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~phoebe/work/agents.html (124 words)

	Autonomous Agents in Control - The IEE
		Autonomous control systems are able to communicate, negotiate, think within defined boundaries, evaluate and solve problems without recourse to human intervention.
		The basis of autonomous control systems are intelligent agents, the entities in a system which can perform a task in an intelligent way and can make decisions with other agents in the system.
		You will discover that there are autonomous system implementations already in place, and the research is real and already delivering step-change improvements in the systems they control, or they are solving problems which were considered impossible using conventional solutions.
	www.iee.org /events/agents.cfm (557 words)

	Agents 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The aim of the Agents 2000 conference is to bring together researchers and developers from industry and academia to report on the latest scientific and technical advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest systems.
		Agents 2000 will build on the enormous success of its three predecessors, Agents'97 in Marina del Rey (http://www.isi.edu/isd/AA97/info.html), Agents'98 in Minneapolis (http://www.cis.udel.edu/agents98/), and Agents'99 in Seattle (http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99/).
		The Agents 2000 conference, like its predecessors, will focus primarily on systems that have been or are being implemented; theory papers are welcome provided that they clearly relate to such systems, for example by helping us to predict their behavior, explain, or understand them.
	www.iiia.csic.es /agents2000 (3499 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Autonomous agents are computer systems that are capable of independent action in dynamic, unpredictable environments.
		The aim of the Agents '98 conference was to bring together researchers and developers from industry and academia in order to report on the latest scientific and technical advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest systems.
		Agents '98 built on the enormous success of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '97), held in Marina del Rey in February 1997, which was attended by some 500 people.
	www.cis.udel.edu /agents98 (252 words)

	COAST Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection Project
		The Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection Group is composed of a number of students and faculty within the
		We are also in the process of developing as many new agents as possible, both to provide a good base functionality with the prototype distribution and to test the agent-development facilities included with AAFID2.
		The Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection Group is composed of the following COAST students and faculty:
	www.cerias.purdue.edu /research/aafid (579 words)

	Autonomous Interface Agents - Lieberman (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Abstract: Two branches of the trend towards "agents" that are gaining currency are interface agents, software that actively assists a user in operating an interactive interface, and autonomous agents, software that takes action without user intervention and operates concurrently, either while the user is idle or taking other actions.
		Much agent work can be classified as either being an...
		0.1: Agents for Mobility with a Java-enabled Orbiter - Vellino
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /lieberman97autonomous.html (367 words)

	RedfishGroup - FRIAM
		Part of the resulting agent’s task is to present alternatives, or ‘fields of action’ to its component selves.
		Correspondingly, the composed agent is itself constrained by a field of action that the superstructure to which it belongs presents.
		The most important aspect of such an agent is that it maximizes its objective function by definition, given the constraints of the nature of its components and the superstructure to which it belongs.
	www.redfish.com /friam (4323 words)

	Smart Mobs: Autonomous Agents
		Posted by Emeka at 09:21 AM Autonomous Agents are creeping out of the lab,
		The agents -- software programs that are able to learn and can function independently -- are used to manage experiments and operate the spacecraft..."they have "...the potential to become an extraordinarily powerful technology, with the capacity to learn, experiment and act independent of human control.
		Agents could ultimately improve productivity, increase software reliability and change the operation of markets, particularly supply chains..." Computerworld.
	www.smartmobs.com /archive/2004/09/07/autonomous_agen.html (174 words)

	Cetus Links: 16604 Links on Objects and Components / Distributed Objects & Components: Mobile Agents
		Mobile Agents are autonomous, intelligent programs that move through a network, searching for and interacting with services on the user's behalf.
		Mobile Agents should be able to execute on every machine in a network and the agent code should not have to be installed on every machine the agent could visit.
		Therefore Mobile Agents use mobile code systems like Java and the Java virtual machine where classes can be loaded at runtime over the network.
	www.cetus-links.org /oo_mobile_agents.html (885 words)

	Autonomous Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This in turn requires the ability to adaptively change the relative importance of tasks when the real world violates one's expectations and to learn an improved world model that makes better predictions in the future.
		This project explores these issues using Icarus, an architecture for intelligent agents that represents control knowledge at different levels of temporal resolution, uses decision-theoretic criteria to select tasks and actions, and learns the values of these tasks and actions from its experience.
		We are testing this framework in a simulated traffic domain, where the task is to control the speed and lane of an automobile on a highway among other cars.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /cll/auton.html (270 words)

	Intelligent Software Agents
		Shehory, G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance," In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents '99, May 1999, Seattle, Washington, pp.
		Sycara, J. Lu, M. Klusch, and S. Widoff, Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet, in Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, Stanford, USA, 1999.
		In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, June 3-7, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~softagents/publications.html (7017 words)

	MIT Media Lab: Software Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Software Agents Group of the MIT Media Laboratory investigates computer systems to which one can delegate tasks.
		Software agents differ from conventional software in that they are long-lived, semi-autonomous, proactive, and adaptive.
		Our primary focus is to create software that acts as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user’s needs.
	agents.media.mit.edu /index.html (79 words)

	Characters, improvisation, and ...
		I'm using it to collect references to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.
		Autonomous virtual humans by Daniel Thalmann et al.
		The Emergent Systems Group of Coopers and Lybrand uses multiple agent systems to model decision making and trends in various simulations of real world marketplaces.
	www.red3d.com /cwr/characters.html (1220 words)

	CWRU Dynamics of Adaptive Behavior Research Group
		We use evolutionary algorithms to generate continuous-time recurrent neural networks (CTRNNs) that function as "nervous systems" for controlling the behavior of autonomous agents.
		Animals are remarkably well-adapted to the environments in which they must survive, and they exhibit an efficiency and flexibility of operation and a robustness to contingency and damage that we would like to emulate in our autonomous robots.
		of Biology, we are exploring ways in which biological control principles abstracted from studies of the neural basis of behavior in simpler animals can be applied to autonomous robots.
	vorlon.cwru.edu /~beer/group.html (413 words)

	CERIAS - Autonomous Agents for Intrusion Detection
		This site's design is only visible in a graphical browser that supports web standards, but its content is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
		An Architecture for Intrusion Detection using Autonomous Agents (HTTP: PostScript, PDF).
		It includes how to use the programs included in the prototype, as well as how to develop new agents for use with the system.
	www.cerias.purdue.edu /about/history/coast/projects/aafid.php (624 words)

	Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents, May 28 - June 1, 2001, Montreal, Canada.
		Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents, June 3-7, 2000, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
		Rino Falcone, Munindar P. Singh, Yao-Hua Tan (Eds.): Trust in Cyber-societies, Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives [based on a workshop on Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies held during the Autonomous Agents Conference in Barcelona, Spain in June 2000].
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/conf/agents (202 words)

	Amazon.com: Behavior-Based Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents): Books: Ronald C. Arkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Robin R. Murphy
		This introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field.
		Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and learning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robot architectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends in robot intelligence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262011654?v=glance (1208 words)

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