Friday, December 1, 1995

1:30pm - 4:30pm

• Registration, coffee

4:30pm - 6:30pm

• Welcome and overview of workshop, James Mayfield and Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• April: a process based symbolic programming language for building internet wide agent based applications, Keith Clark, Imperial College
• Animated agents with decision and reactive behaviors, Thomas S. Trias, University of Pennsylvania
• Comments, James Mayfield (UMBC) and Tim Finin (UMBC)
• Discussion, all

7:00pm - 9:00pm

• Reception and tour, Maryland Science Center

Saturday, December 2, 1995

8:00am - 8:30am

• Break, coffee and snack

8:30am - 10:00am

• Task Planning Agents in the UMDL. Jose M. Vidal & Edmund H. Durfee, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110. (PostScript version)
• An Approach to Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Using Statistical Properties of Text to Guide Agent Search. Grace Crowder & Charles Nicholas, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398. (PostScript version)
• Agents for Internet Information Clients. Leslie L. Daigle & Peter Deutsch, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc. (PostScript version)
• Comments, Ramesh Venkataraman, UMBC
• Discussion, all

10:00am - 10:15am

• Break, coffee and snack

10:30 - 11:45

• The Cycic Friends Network: Getting Cyc agents to reason together. James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Rajkumar Narayanaswamy & Chetan Shah, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, William MacCartney & Keith Goolsbey, Cycorp., Austin, TX. (PostScript version, 150Kb), Presentation Slides (PostScript version, 350Kb)
• KAoS: A Generic Agent Architecture for Aerospace Applications. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stewart Dutfield, Bob Carpenter, Renia Jeffers & Tom Robinson (PostScript version)
• GIA: An Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Brant Cheikes, MITRE. (PostScript version)
• Comments, Lisa Rau (SRA)
• Discussion, all

11:45am - 1:00pm

• Lunch provided

1:00pm - 2:30pm

• Infomaster: A Virtual Information System. Donald F. Geddis, Michael R. Genesereth, Arthur M. Keller & Narinder P. Singh, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
• Toward a Semantics for a Speech Act Based Agent Communications Language. Ira A. Smith & Philip R. Cohen, Center for Human-Computer Communication, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute. (PostScript version)
• A Foundation for Commitments as Resource Management in Multi-Agent Systems. Michel Aube, Universite de Sherbrooke, Alain Senteni, Universite de Montreal. (PostScript version)
• Comments, Yannis Labrou (UMBC)
• Discussion, all

2:30pm - 3:00pm

• Break, coffee and snack

3:00pm - 4:30pm

• Reusable Architecture for Embedding Rule-based Intelligence in Information Agents. Benjamin Grosof, I.B.M. Research, (PostScript version)
• Developing InfoSleuth Agents Using Rosette: An Actor Based Language. Darrell Woelk, Microeclectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), 3500 Balcones Center Dr., Austin, Texas 78759, (PostScript version)
• Agent Tcl: A transportable agent system. Robert S. Gray, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755 (PostScript version)
• Comments, Barry Silverman (GWU)
• Discussion, all

4:30pm - 5:30pm

• Comments, session chairs and respondents
• Discussion, all
• Wrap up, James Mayfield and Tim Finin

Additional papers and abstracts

• Interpreting Spread Sheet Data for Human-Agent Interactions. Syed S. Ali , Computer Science Department, Southwest Missouri State University, Susan Haller , Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin. (PostScript version)
• When Just One is Enough. Chumki Basu Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University Paul B. Cantor School of Communication, Library and Information Studies, Rutgers University (PostScript version)
• An Architecture for Supporting Quasi-agent Entities in the WWW (extended abstract). Charles L. Brooks, Murray S. Mazer & Scott Meeks, OSF Research Institute.
• Need for a Security Profile for Agent Environments (position paper). Shirley Browne, Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee.
• Intelligent Monitoring of Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Sources. Len Seligman, Kenneth P.Smith, Patricia L. Carbone, Cristopher Elsaesser, Paul E. Lehner, Michael S. V. Turner & April Milner, The Mitre Corporation. (PostScript version)
• Adaptive Agents for Information Access (position paper). James R. Chen, Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center.
• Agent-based Integration of General-Purpose Tools. Stephen Cranefield & Martin Purvis , Department of Information Science, University of Otago. (PostScript version)
• Teaching an Agent to Speak and Listen with Understanding: Why and How?. William R. Hutchinson, Ph.D., Behavior Systems, LLC.
• Agent-based Framework for Developing Distributed Systems (position paper). Tetsuo Kinoshita, Media Laboratories, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Kenji Sugawara, Department of Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology Norio Shiratori, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University.
• Internet Information Resource Discovery Tools: Current and Future Trends. V. R. Kumar, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology Pty. Ltd.
• Agent-based Document Construction. Remo Pareschi , Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble Laboratory. (PostScript version)
• Service Agents for Customer Self-Service. Dr. Dhiraj K. Pathak, Applied Engineering, Multivendor Customer Services, Digital Equipment Corporation. (PostScript version)
• MACRON: An Architecture for Multi-agent Cooperative Information Gathering. Keith Decker, Victor Lesser, M. V. Nagendra Prasad & Thomas Wagner, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. (PostScript version)
• Towards a constraint-based agent framework. I. Selvaratnam & K. Ahmad, Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, University of Surrey.
• Behavior Analysis and Intelligent Agent Theory. Kenneth R. Stephens, Ph.D., BehavHeuristics, Inc. (PostScript version)
• Multi-Agent Systems Protocol Language Specification. Alejandro Quintero, Mar¡a Eugenia Ucr¢s & Silvia Takahashi, Universidad de los Andes, Dpto. Ingenier.
• Intelligent Agents in Software Reuse Repositories. Barry G. Silverman, Nabil Bedewi & Alfredo Morales, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, George Washington University . (PostScript version)
• PSUN: A Profiling System for Usenet News. H. Sorensen & M.. McElligott, Computer Science Department, University College, Cork, Ireland. (PostScript version)
• On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents. Tim Finin, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu & Anupama Potluri , Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Don McKay & Robin McEntire , Loral. (Postscript version - 971K)
• Secret Agents -- a Security Architecture for KQML. Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin & James Mayfield , Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County. (PostScript version)
• Trust Between Users and Their Intelligent Agents. Craig Van Slyke & Rosann Webb Collins, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of South Florida.
• A Language for Building Intelligent Distributed Information Retrieval Systems, (position paper). Keith Clark, Imperial College.
• Information Retrieval, Text Categorization and Intelligent Information Agents. Paul Thompson, West Publishing Company.
• Transportable information agents (position paper). Robert S. Gray, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College. (PostScript version)
• Negotiation amongst Intelligent Agents during Information Retrieval from the Web. Keith J. Werkman, Loral Federal Systems - Owego.