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Daniel Weld and Oren Etzioni of the University of Washington have
helped to found NETbot as a
venture-backed, development-stage Internet software company. NETbot
will develope advanced agent technologies focused on "data
disaggregation problems" on the Internet. NETbot hopes to satisfy the
"expanding need for software tools which will find, collect, and
collate data from a wide variety of sources for the non-technical
user." Core technology themes are providing meta-level services on
top of existing applications lightweight design; and
practicality. NETbot applications inhabit a space "above" other
applications such as text indices in that they aggregate, collate, and
display data generated by other lower-level applications. NETbot
applications are lightweight: they employ powerful artificial
intelligence techniques with code optimized for small footprint and
quick operation. Initial demonstrations of their technologyt include
the
MetaCrawler search tool and the Ahoy home page finder.
12/5/96
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WARREN:
Intelligent Agents for Financial Portfolio Management is a CMU
project that is applying a the
Retsina agent framework to portfolio management. This is the task
of providing an integrated financial picture for managing an
investment portfolio over time, using the information resources
already available over the Internet. 8/12/96
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CommerceNet is a large
government and industry sponsored project aimed at exploring and
developing the technology and infrastructure for Internet-based
electronic commerce. CommerceNet is broadening its outreach by moving
its monthly SIG meetings to a different host city each month. The
next meeting will be held on August 20-21 in Washington, D.C. and will
be open to the public. The first day of these SIG meetings will be
broadcast live over the Internet. A complete agenda, logistics,
registration, and all other information is available on the
CommerceNet web page.8/10/96
- Agent Commerce: Book Worms
Bargainbot was described in Netsurfer Digest, Thursday,
June 06, 1996 - Volume 02, Issue 17: "BOOK 'BOT A GOOD IDEA THAT NEEDS
WORK. Book Worms Bargainbot is a search agent that lets the bytes do
the walking for you, rooting out books and prices at a handful of
virtual bookstores, including Macmillian Bookstores, Amazon.com,
CompuBooks, Rutherford's, and Books.com. Unfortunately, the agent is
not too discerning, so searches can return information on the book
you're interested in, plus dozens of others that happen to share the
same word in the title. Supplying an author's name does not help the
situation (try tracking down James Gleick's "Genius"). That aside, if
you'd rather shop at home than browse the musty aisles of the local
bookshop, and you know what you want, Bargainbot will help you worm
your way through the plethora of books available via the
Web."http://www.ece.curtin.edu.au/~saounb/bargainbot/"
- Paper: The Role of
Brokers in Electronic Commerce, Paul Resnick, MIT's The Center for Coordination Science
(CCS) 5/27/96
- Project: ADEPT: Advanced Decision Environment for
Process Tasks is a project of the DAI group at Queen Mary and
Westfield College, London. It is modeling business processes as a
collections of autonomous, problem solving agents which interact when
they have interdependencies. A recent paper is: N. R. Jennings,
P. Faratin, M. J. Johnson, P. O'Brien, M. E. Wiegand:
"Using Intelligent Agents to Manage Business Processes",
Proc. First Int. Conf. on The Practical Application of Intelligent
Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM96),pp. 345-360. London,
UK. 5/14/96
- Agent: ShopBot
is an experimental prototype WWW shopping agent under development. It
tries to shop for computer software or CD's. Fill in the name and
manufacturer of the software product you're looking for, or the title
and artist of the pop/rock CD, and let the ShopBot go to work. 5/11/96
- Paper: Maksim Tsvetovatyy and Maria Gini, "Toward the Virtual
Marketplace - Architectures and Strategies", PAAM96, London, 1996
Abstract: In recent years, many researchers as well as
commercial companies have attempted to create intelligent agent-based
markets or retail outlets. Unfortunately, most of these systems have
fallen short of changing the way commerce is done over the Internet.
We think that some of the reasons of this shortfall are an incomplete
implementation of the market metaphor and lack of automated purchasing
and agent cooperation algorithms. In this research, we attempt to
address these problems by designing an open marketplace architecture
that includes all elements required for simulating a real market
(i.e., communications, goods storage and transfer, banking,
administration and policing, etc.). We also address the issues of
automated purchasing and agent cooperation by devising strategies and
algorithms for them. We also report findings that resulted from
implementing and conducting experiments with a free-market agent
architecture (MAGMA). MAGMA is an extensible architecture that
provides all services essential to agent-based commercial
activities. These services are available through an open-standard
messaging API, which allows use of a heterogeneous set of agents,
independently of platform and language. 4/4/96
- Paper: Intelligent
Agents: A Technology and Business Application Analysis Kathy
Heilmann, Dan Kihanya, Alastair Light, and Paul Musembwa. November
1995. 3/31/96
- Personal
Agents, Inc. is a new company based in Dallas, Texas that is
working in the domain of electronic commerce. Their approach is to
develop agents which work continuously on their own to satisfy a
client's demand and make decisions. 3/31/96
- Company:
AgentSoft is a new company founded by Jeffrey Rosenschein, Gilad
Zlotkin and Eithan Ephrati that will focus on the development and
marketing of intelligent agent software products for the Internet and
for enterprise Intranet. 3/28/96
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Intelligent Agent & Electronic Commerce Web resources for
intelligent agent in the electronic commerce maintained by Yuh-Jong
Hu's (jong@cs.nccu.edu.tw). 3/23/96
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Defining the Role of Agents in Web Malls , Robert E. Calem, Web
Week, Volume 1, Issue 8, December 1995. This short article discusses
the role agents are beginning to play in some on-line shopping sites
such as eShop Plaza , Bargain Finder , Internet Fashion Mall , and DreamShop . 12/13/95.
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