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The <a href="http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/">Multimedia Information
Research Laboratory</a> (MIRL) in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
University of Ottawa has established a new project on <a
href="http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/webdata/index2.html"> Intelligent
Multimedia Agents and their Application to Digital News and Distance
Learning Paradigms</a>.  The objective of this work is to develop
intelligent personal agents for the delivery of multimedia documents
over heteregeneous networks to heteregeneous devices (including
cellular phones, graphical workstations, laptops, etc.). The intent is
to develop and spin off technology that supports multimedia content
for mobile workers.  This project aims to define and implement
lightweight personal agents that work in off-the-shelf computing
environments (such as Lotus Notes or the WWW) and mediate between
devices on heteregeneous networks be they ATM, wireless telephone or
traditional LANs. It will introduce device agents that can cooperate
with personal agents to deliver multi-modal (fax, e-mail, voice mail)
multimedia (text, voice, video) messages. It will require the
definition of a new approach to multimedia document content so that
the content may be tailored to the terminating device.  Some recent
publications include: <a
href="http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/webdata/tois.ps">Mobile Agents for
Creating Active News Documentaries</a>, B.Falchuk, A.Karmouch,
submitted to <i>ACM Trans. on Information Systems</i>, 1996; and <a
"href=http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/webdata/icc.ps">A Multimedia Agent
in a Distributed Broadband Environment</a>m B. Kwan, A.Karmouch, in
<i>Proceedings of ICC'96</i>, Dallas, June 1996.
<i> 12/7/96</i>



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<a href="http://www.sikt.hk-r.se/~soc/">Societies of Computation</a>
is a research project at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby in
Ronneby, Sweden. Its goal is to study and develop computational
frameworks for complex distributed systems, bringing together
experiences from Distributed AI, Object Oriented Programming, and
Distributed Computing.  The project is collaborating with industry on
real-world problems and well-defined application domains, such as
Power Distribution Automation and Telecommunication Management.  <i>
7/27/96 </i>

<p><li> Framework: The <a
href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/ai/projects/desire/"> DESIRE </a>
research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focuses on the study of
compositional multi-agent systems for complex (and often distributed)
tasks and development methods for these systems. Such systems model
and support users in coordinating and performing complex cooperative
tasks (e.g., design projects, distributed process control). The agent
metaphor has been adopted as a point of departure: a complex task can
be modeled as a composition of a number of tasks, each of which is
performed by one or more agents; these agents can have the form of
automated systems or human agents (users). The group has developed an
agent modeling framework that addresses three major aspects underlying
an agent solving a complex task: the different types of knowledge
required, the patterns of reasoning and acting used by the agents, and
the interactions between (automated) systems and users.  <i> 6/24/96
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<p><li> Group: <a
href="http://euler.mcs.utulsa.edu/~sandip/sandip.html">Sandip Sen</a>
at the University of Tulsa heads a research group (DAI-hards) which is
working on intelligent distributed scheduling and multiagent learning
and adaptation.  A number of <a
href="http://euler.mcs.utulsa.edu/~sandip/DAI.html"> papers </a> are
available on-line. <i> 5/27/96</i>


<p><li>  <a href="http://www.sikt.hk-r.se/~soc/"> Societies of
Computation</a> (SoC) is a research project at the University of
Karlskrona/Ronneby in Sweden which studies agent technologies for
industrial applications.  <i> 3/30/96 </i>


<p><li>  Research group: <a
href="http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/Ontology/ontology.html">
Ontological Foundations of Knowledge Engineering </a> at LADSEB-CNR
(Institute for Systems Science and Biomedical Engineering of the
Italian National Research Council) has two main recearch foci: (1) the
Ontological Tools for Conceptual Design of Reusable Data and Knowledge
Bases and (2) Logical Modelling of Mechanical Assemblies for Product
Data Integration and Reuse. <i> 3/7/96 </i>


<p><li>  <a href="http://www.lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/">Ishida
Laboratory</a> at Kyoto University conducts basic research into
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with emphasis on multiagent
systems, problem solving, and robot vision.  One interesting system
developed at Ishida Lab is <a
href="http://www.cslab.tas.ntt.jp/at/">AgenTalk</a>, a coordination
protocol description language for multiagent systems. <i> 12/13/95
</i>


<p><li>  The <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/amrl.html">
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Lab</a> at the University of Maryland
College Park has a number of projects which involve the intelligent
control of goal-based robotics and motion planning.<i> 12/12/95</i>


<p><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/www/lait/">
UMBC Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology</a><i>9/19/95</i>

<p><li>  <a
href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/softbots/www/softbots.html">
U. Washington softbots research group</a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://yuggoth.ces.cwru.edu"> CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group  </a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://dis.cs.umass.edu"> UMASS Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory </a>


<p><li>   <a href="http://cdps.cs.unh.edu">
UNH Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group  </a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html"> CMU SCS OZ Project </a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/"> MIT Autonomous Agents Group  </a>


<p><li>  <a href="http://www.isi.edu/soar/soar-homepage.html"> USC Soar
Project at </a>

<p><li>  <a href="http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/~firby/aap/index.html"> Agent
Projects at HCRL </a> (Chicago)

<p><li>   <a href="http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/FirstLink/FirstLink.html"> First Link Project</a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://www-sloan.mit.edu/CCS/CCSMain.html"> MIT Center for Coordination Science </a>



<p><li>  
<a href="http://robotics.stanford.edu/groups/nobots"> Stanford Nobotics Group</a>

<p><li> <a href="http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/diag/homepage.html"> Michigan Distributed Intelligent Agent Group </a>

<p><li> <a href="http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov:80/agents/"> Intelligent Web Agents / Houston (IWAH)</a> (<a href="http://ricis.cl.uh.edu">Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems</a> - University of Houston) 


<p><li>  <a href="http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/agents.html">Intelligent Autonomous Software Agents for Virtual Environments and other Areas of Telematics</a> at the <a href="http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/oefai.html">Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence</a>


<p><li>  <a href="http://arti.vub.ac.be/www/research.html">Mas Research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)</a>

<p><li>  <a href="http://aida.unipr.it/dai/daidii.html">Distributed Artificial Intelligence</a> at the <a href="http://www.ce.unipr.it">Dept of Information Engineering</a> of PARMA University

<p><li> <a href="http://flute.aist-nara.ac.jp/KC/"> Knowledgeable
Community Project (Nishida Lab.)</a>

<p><li> <a href="http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/dai/"> DAI Research Unit at
QMW Electronic Engineering Department</a> specialise in building
real-world multi-agent systems.


<p><li>   <a href="http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/aigr/research/agents/agents.html">Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the University of Nottingham - Psychology Department</a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/recherche/profs/chaib/MAS/"> Multi-Agent Systems Research Group at Universit&eacute; de Laval</a>

<p><li>   <a href="http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/software.html"> CALVIN : Communicating Agents Living Vicariously In Networks - KSL (NRC - CNR)</a>

<p><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/~vreeswyk/mas.htm"> The Multi-Agent Systems Group of the university of Maastricht </a>

<p><li>  <a href="http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sgaico/html/olb/baujard.html">DAI at Geneva University Hospital</a>

<p><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/dai">HUJI DAI group</a>
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