I am sorry for disturbing the whole list with my problem. But since I joined
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empty one I quote at the end of this note. During this period I have received
tons of mails from different sources (mailing lists included), so my mailer and
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contact?
(Please contact me directly at gulya@... as it has higher chances to
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Hi,

I think that in order to talk about properties of an AIA we need to have a
consensus on some axiomatic (*) concepts, which we intend to use. Such
concepts
should give a set of independent but related reciprocally properties of
AIA; an
unknown canonical set Pi in frame of an AIA theory.
We can assume  (as a working hypothesis) that we may construct more than one
such Pi sets.
In the subject matter literature there are: BDI agent [Rao & Georgeff 91, …],
Beliefs, Desires, Knowledge and  Perceptions frame, IPK architecture
[gadomski,90], and many others.

I am looking for different Pi sets - with definitions.
Do you know some examples?
Any help (web addresses, comments, opinions, ..) will be appreciated.

Of course the Pi sets should be build in an iterative and incremental manner.
-------
(*) axiomatic  means without definition in frame of the AIA theory. It rather
is a “relative axiomatization”. In general, the definitions should be  formed
outside  a developed theory.

- Adam

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Notion of Vivid Agent, Gerd Wagner's home page:
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~gwagner/home.html

I don't know what you mean by "outside a developed theory". Please
explain.

Thanks!
Leo
Adam M. GADOMSKI wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think that in order to talk about properties of an AIA we need to have a
> consensus on some axiomatic (*) concepts, which we intend to use. Such
> concepts
> should give a set of independent but related reciprocally properties of
> AIA; an
> unknown canonical set Pi in frame of an AIA theory.
> We can assume  (as a working hypothesis) that we may construct more than one
> such Pi sets.
> In the subject matter literature there are: BDI agent [Rao & Georgeff 91, …],
> Beliefs, Desires, Knowledge and  Perceptions frame, IPK architecture
> [gadomski,90], and many others.
>
> I am looking for different Pi sets - with definitions.
> Do you know some examples?
> Any help (web addresses, comments, opinions, ..) will be appreciated.
>
> Of course the Pi sets should be build in an iterative and incremental manner.
> -------
> (*) axiomatic  means without definition in frame of the AIA theory. It rather
> is a “relative axiomatization”. In general, the definitions should be  formed
> outside  a developed theory.
>
> - Adam
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Leo,

At 17.18 08/01/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Notion of Vivid Agent, Gerd Wagner's home page:
>http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~gwagner/home.html
>
Thanks. His approach is interesting.

>I don't know what you mean by "outside a developed theory". Please
>explain.
>

(*)axiomatic  means without definition in frame of the AIA theory. It rather
  is a "relative axiomatization". In general, the definitions should be  formed
  outside  a developed theory.

It should be (I use the TOGA conceptualization):

Usually, the definitions of axiomatic terms of a theory Tx are formed in
frame of another more general ( more abstract ) theories, i.e. outside of
the developed theory.
- They can be the set theory, logic, algebra, but not only.

  - If we assume that  non-axiomatic theories have only implicit axioms then
the definitions of their axiomatic concepts are usually, more or less
formally, formed in frame of other theories.
For example, medical theories uses concepts defined in biology, chemistry
and physics. Physics uses concepts defined in mathematics. Environmental
theories use concepts from geology, physics, biology, … .

In this sense, for example, if
-  c  is assumed as a concept of a theory Tx ,
-  D( c1, c2, c3 ) ->  c
   denotes a definition of c by the concepts  c1, c2, c3
   and c1 is a concept from a theory Ty,
   c2,c3 are concepts from a theory Tz
then
we may say that c is an axiomatic concept of Tx
and is defined outside of Tx.

Of course the same conditions is possible to present more formally than above.

- Adam

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Hello to all!
May be, somebody know something about BDI-logic (not BDI-architecture)?
This is a idea-fix of my chief.
Any information will be usefull.
Thanks.
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Hi everybody!

I'm a master degree student at UFPB, Brazil. Currently I'm developing a
research project about Tutoring Agents, so I'm looking for any
information, pointers, etc, about modeling Knowledge for Tutoring
Agents.

Thanks in advance.
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How about this paper?

Wang, H., "LearnOOP: An Active Agent-Based Educational System," Expert Systems
With Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 153 - 162, 1997

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Hello,
      I'd like to get the paper LearnOOP. Any help will be appreciated.

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See also my comments in [[.. .]] from AIA modeling perspective.

FORWARDED
*****************************************
The AAAI-99 Workshop on Agents' Conflicts
*****************************************

Call for papers


* Description of workshop

Agents' conflicts  arise   for  different  reasons,   involve
different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending  on
the kind of   agents and on  the  domain where they  are
considered. For example, agents  may have conflicting beliefs,
conflicting goals,
or may have to share limited resources.  Conflicts can be expressed as
mere differences, or as contradictions,  or  even as  social  conflicts
(e.g.
aggression,   fighting). They may be  avoided,   solved, kept, or even
created  deliberately.
Since more and more  concern is attached  to agents'  teamwork and
agents'  dialogue,
conflicts naturally arise as a key issue to be dealt with, not only
with application dedicated techniques, but also with more formal and
generic tools.
The aim of the workshop is therefore to focus on definitions of
agents' conflicts and on their roles within a multiagent system,
i.e. how this system may evolve thanks to, despite, or because of
conflicts.

* Topics

- conflict ontology
- conflict measurements
- conflict scales
- conflict and uncertainty
- coping with conflicts
- conflict management typology
- conflict management vs. knowledge enhancement
- conflict management vs. robustness
- conflict management and time
- conflict and decision making
- system design based on conflicts
- learning from conflicts
- ...

* Format

The  workshop  will    include  invited   papers   from  knowledgeable
researchers within the agent field, contributed papers selected by the
Workshop Committee, and  two  discussions on issues highlighted in the
papers.

Guidelines for the contributed papers are given on the
workshop web site
<http://www.cert.fr/fr/dcsd/PUB/AAAI99/conflicts.html>http://www.cert.fr/fr/
dcsd/PUB/AAAI99/conflicts.html.

* Attendance

Attendance is limited to 40 participants.

* Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers on the topics outlined above.
Submissions should
be no longer than 10 pages, and be in line with the AAAI-style sheet
(see
<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/macros-link.html>http://www.aaai
.org/Publications/Templates/macros-link.html)

Electronic submissions, in Postscript format, should be sent to:
Catherine.Tessier@...

* Workshop Chairs

Catherine Tessier and Laurent Chaudron
Onera-Cert-DCSD
2 avenue Edouard-Belin, BP 4025
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Tel: (33) 5 62 25 29 14 - fax: (33) 5 62 25 25 64


* Workshop Committee

Cristiano Castelfranchi, CNR, Italy (cris@...);
Mark Klein, CCS-MIT (m_klein@...);
Juergen Mueller, Deutsche Telekom, Germany (muellerhj@...);
Joël Quinqueton, Inria, France (jq@...);
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University (singh@...);
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California  (tambe@...);
Laurent Chaudron (cochair), Onera-Cert, France
(Laurent.Chaudron@...);
Catherine Tessier (cochair), Onera-Cert, France
(Catherine.Tessier@...).
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My meta-comments/reflections --------------------------------------

From the AIA modeling perspective (a meta level point of view) it is a typical
keyword -driven workshop.
It interprets/draws the meanings of a selected concept from its application
contexts recognized sufficiently important.

The topics of w. are selected and ordered according an implicit criteria
(fuzzy? - but based on organizers expert knowledge) as follows:

" * Topics

- conflict ontology
- conflict measurements
- conflict scales
- conflict and uncertainty
- coping with conflicts
- conflict management typology
- conflict management vs. knowledge enhancement
- conflict management vs. robustness
- conflict management and time
- conflict and decision making
- system design based on conflicts
- learning from conflicts
- ...".
We can notice that for some agent specialists,
a 'conflict' is as a meta-attribute of situations where human and artificial
(intelligent) agents
are involved.

The above topic list can re-enforce an utility of the terms:
  ontology
  measurements
  scales
  uncertainty
  management typology
  knowledge enhancement
  robustness
  time
  decision making
  learning

for various hypotheses of hierarchical multi-domain AIA models.

The above mentioned complex conflict-related concepts, in implicit way,
indicate
'activities'  important for the intelligent agent model/modeling.

On this level of abstraction, we can select
an active agent, an activity domain and a class/type of activity, where a
conflict can appear.
For example we can build a sequence of activities and their attributes drown
from the "workshop experts", something like this.


                                       ontology and uncertainty of activity

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  |                |
|                                           |                 |
AIA -- decision making --> management (with typology) --> .. X(?).. -->
measurements
  |
|                                   |    ^
|
V                                           V
V    |                   V
robustness (?)                       knowledge  -->             learning
-->   scale

|                                                          |

-----------------------------------------------------------
                                                              domain ontology

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                                                                              |
                                                                              |

data
(information) uncertainty

- It coud be compared with your other similar pictures.

In other word, here, 'conflict' is recognized as an intermediate (in the
generalization hierarchy) attribute of the situation assessment related to a
pre-selected domain of expected intervention of  an AIA. ...
...

- I think that this type of exercises can be a useful entertainment for AIA
bulders.

  Cheers

- Adam


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Hello!

I have been invited to organize a special session on intelligent software
engineering at the 1999 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IC-AI'99 - http://jhpc.org/icai/) June 28 - July
1, 1999, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada. The CFP for the session
is included at the end of this email and I would be glad if you can
forward this mail to any of your interested colleagues.

IC-AI 99 is to be held simultanesouly with the 1999 International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'99 - http://jhpc.org/pdpta/) and the 1999
International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology
(CISST'99 - http://jhpc.org/cisst). Each conference will have its own set
of conference proceedings.

The IC-AI'99 Conference is being sponsored by the following agencies:

1. The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
    (Department of Energy, USA);
2. The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in
    Simulation (IMACS);
3. Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press
    (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953);
4. Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech. (CVRA); Developers of
    AI systems (pending).

It is my pleasure to invite you, your colleagues / students to
submit a paper to this session.  I have been told after the
conference, many of the approved technical sessions will be considered
for publication as special issues in appropriate journals.

Authors who would like to submit papers to CISST'99 and/or PDPTA'99
    and/or other sessions within IC-AI'99 should send their papers to:
                Hamid R. Arabnia
                University of Georgia
                Department of Computer Science
                415 Graduate Studies Research Center
                Athens, Georgia 30602-7404
                U.S.A.

                Tel: (706) 542-3480
                Fax: (706) 542-2966
                email: hra@...


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	 Special session on Intelligent Software Engineeing
       1999 Intenational conference on Artificial Intelligence
		       June 28 - July 1, 1999
	       Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Session Description
-------------------

Most modern day, industrial-strength software systems are complex and
often operate in dynamic environments. Building software systems
that are easier to use for such applications implies addressing the issues
of increasing complexities in analysis, design, maintenance, and,
management of and communication between, the various processes. In order
to manage and successfully exploit such complexity, it is very important
to not only have tools, notations and methodologies that support during
the analysis, design, integration and maintenance of these systems, but
also allow them to incorporate basic intelligence into all phases of the
software engineering process.

The aim of this session will be to gather researchers, developers, and
practitioners from both academia and industry, and provide them with a
forum for exchanging ideas and reporting on recent advances and
developments in engineering complex and intelligent software systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  - Innovative requirements engineering techniques
  - Architectures, methodologies, tools and techniques for intelligent
    systems development
  - Agent-based and simulation-based design approaches
  - Tools for distributed software systems analysis, design and simulation
  - Innovative tools for Software Re-engineering
  - Interaction protocols for intelligent software systems
  - Manufacturing and Business Applications
  - Real-time development applications
  - Educational systems
  - Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methodologies
  - Agent-oriented programming
  - WWW & Internet Applications
  - Case Studies / Lessons learned

Submission of Papers
--------------------

Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
papers for review to to Srini Ramaswamy (address is given below) by the
due date. E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of
the final camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 pages.
Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
publication elsewhere.

The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and
Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of
the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum
of 5 keywords.

Evaluation Process
------------------

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and
soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the
area.

Important Dates (Deadlines, etc.)
---------------------------------

   March 1, 1999 (Monday): Papers due (email submissions accepted)
   April 5, 1999 (Monday): Notification of acceptance
   May 1, 1999 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
   June 28 - July 1, 1999: ICAI'99 Conference

Publication
-----------

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN). It
will be a multivolume set. The proceedings will be available at the
conference. All accepted papers will also be considered for journal
publication (soon after the conference).


Session Organizer
-----------------

Dr. Srini Ramaswamy
Computer Science Department
Box 5101
Tennessee Tech. University
Cookeville, TN 38505 USA

Phone: (931)-372-3448 / 3691
Fax: (931)-372-6353
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Hi,

At 17.17 15/01/99 +0000, Emanuela wrote:
>
> I would be grateful if you didn't use HTML format in your postings if at
> all possible. Thank you.
>
> Emanuela.


I think that not all discussion arguments is possible to present in  a simple
text format. Therefore, in such cases I suggest to attache a file in  HTML .
To attach a MS Word file is dangerous for the reason of possible infection of
macroviruses.

- Adam



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Hi Hatice,

At 10.45 04/03/99 +0200, you wrote:
>
> What is the difference between "cognitive architecture","agent
> architecture" and "software architecture"? Could you give clear definitions
> about these terms? In some papers even some well-known "cognitive
> architectures" are referred not as architectures but as languages. What are
> the real meanings of these terms?Hatice


Most general,

- Cognitive architecture is constructed in the context and in terms of
cognitive theories,
It is rather functional web of invariant relations in frame of  agent
cognitive
models.

- Software architecture refers to the software engineering concepts and
terminology.
For instance, a cognitive architecture can be realized by different software
architectures,
it depends on language and  software development platform.

Always, an architecture is a web of concepts/components accepted a priori (in
frame of a model) as an invariant for pre selected applications (cognitive or
engineeristic).
Here, emphasis is stressed on relations between system components.

Cognitive architecture is an abstract architecture.

Architecture is any structure presented from a specific  point of view.

Original meaning (Greek): arches (arcs) building.

Of course, one commonly  accepted cognitive/software architecture of an agent
or
intelligent agent does not exist.
In my opinion, such consensus is possible for the models on a sufficiently
high
abstraction(generalization) level  but it is a new discussion topic...

cheers,

Adam.

PS. For example, in my approach to personoids I presented a hypothesis of the
IPK (Information, Preference, Knowledge) architecture. It is not a
tool-dependent/oriented software architecture and it is not human-based
cognitive architecture. It is an domain- and
application-independent functional architecture which should integrate, on a
higher abstraction level,  identification (a scientist) and design (an
engineer) perspectives. Its expected advantage should also be its
repetitiveness (it means, a reusing).

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Hi
I am new in this group, who can suggest me a most general/multipurpose shell of
intelligent agent available on the web?

Thank you in advance.

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Dear Teodosi,

At 09.46 03/04/99 +0300, you wrote:
>
>Hi Adam,
>
>I haven't internet pages on this project. But I thank you for your letter.
>I will write abstract to my project. Excuse me for my bad English.
>I work in the sphere of the Multiagent system. The goal is creating an
>instrument and technology for decision-making under uncertainty
>(meteorology ext.), supporting build-up and use  abstract models in
>different object areas.

This is also my research domain from 10 years, in ENEA.

>The basis hypothesis in this work is that systems
>with a social structure and behaviour can play the role of an active model
>environment for formation, supporting and use of knowledge in different
>concrete, more general or  more particular, subject fields.  It offers a
>possible approach for the structure and the organisation of a suitable
>model environment-an artificial system with a social structure.

This hypothesis is possible to form as follows:

A Human-like, social structures can be an useful/efficient architectures
for MASs engaged in different complex real-world problems of knowledge
  management.

>Model
>system includes autonomous  utility- based software agents with motives (I
>call individuals). Model system consists of two parts: variable- creates of
>user and is dependent on object field of the task and constant, which
>includes individuals with social ability.
>The model environment is building on the basis the processing approach.
>
>Teodosi Teodosiev
>Department of Mathematics and Informatics
>Shoumen University, Bulgarie
>e-mail:t.teodosiev@...
>

- Here I suggest you to see my home-pages and especially the pages related to
   the personoids organizations and their IPK architecture (*).

   Of course I suppose that some other architectures of an AIA (Abstract
Intelligent Agent) could be applied in MAS too, for example an BDI
architecture (however, in my opinion, it evolves slowly to IPK like
architecture - only with different terminology(**)).

- My objective has been: to obtain a functional, repetitive, recursive and
incremental architecture which could cover different aspects of the
intervention domain (goal-oriented points-of-view), different meta-reasoning
levels, and different generalization levels (in frame of Knowledge and
Information levels). The basic common conceptualization and interpretation
plataform should be an universal(domain-independent) object-based framework.

In general, the advantages of social metaphor, from the designer and the
user perspectives, are the following:

- the system architecture is independent for large classes of problems, it is
   domain and agent domain-roles independent.
   I define 'domain-role' of an intelligent agent by:
   - access to Information
   - competencies (agent professional-Knowledge)
   - responsibilities and duties (expressed by agent Preferences).

- domain of intervention in every concret application, is specified by the
system
   user in interactive 'set-up' sessions,

- in the same manner the role of the personoids can be modified/created by
   direct modifications of their Knowledge and Preferences Bases.
   As a consequence of learning capacity of personoids their should have the
   capability of self-development (new 'monads' on the level of IPK
architecture).
  The concept of IPK repetitive triangle should enable an application of fractals
  alghorithms for system self-development.

Such hypothetical algorithm could be considered as an 'genetic code' of
personoid for the application of genetic algorithms.
- The above tasks require an meta-programming and meta-logic technology.

- I also suppose that Goal-oriented Artificial Social Systems (GASS), where
top-goal on highest abstraction level is defined by the system designer,
should be a developing systems too.

- Summarizing:

1.  The development of GASS systems can be done by the development of
    AIAs as its components, and by the development of the GASS architecture.
    It is illustrated by the table below.

    \Arch. |Simple |          |Complex       |
     \     | Group |          |multi-        |
      \    | Arch. | ---> ... |organization  |
    AIA\   |       |          |Socity        |
    -----------------------------------------|
    Simple |       |    ...   |              |
    Agents |       |          |              |
    -----------------------------------------|
    ...                             ...
    -----------------------------------------|
    Auto-  |       |          |
    nomous |       |
    high   |       |
    intel. |       |
    agents |
    ------------------------------------------
    Now, it is not a proper moment to fill up this table.
    It could be discussed later.

  2. We AIA and GASS systems development requires yet strong theoretical
     effort and interdisciplinary cooperation between cognitivists,
     software engineers and system science specialists.

  3. In the above domain, from a more practical point of view, I am looking
     for partners for the 5th Framework European Program.

----------------------------------------
(*)
http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/gad-dict.htm
http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/per-para.html
and others.
(**)
I think that a terminological standards/platform is urgently necessary in
order to
discuss different AIA and GASS architectures. For example, the same concepts
have
many names dependent on imagination of their authors. - In such situation
in the subject matter literature we mainly have many "monologues" without
any real comparison with other theoretical proposals - we only may accept
  or decline them.
  - I work on such common conceptualization platform:
http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/Gad-toga.htm

Cheers

- Adam

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Adam Maria Gadomski - senior research scientist
ENEA, C.R.Casaccia, Italy
My home-page:
http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/gadomski.html
Email: gadomski_a@...

"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
   - (O.Wide)
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At 17.49 28/03/99 -0800, Amadeo wrote:

<blockquote type=cite cite>HiI am new in this group, who can suggest me a
most general/multipurpose shell of intelligent agent available on the
web?Thank you in advance.Amadeo</blockquote>--------------------</pre><font
size=3>Hi, Amadeo,  I think this could be an information for you
too.<br><br>-
Adam<br><br>----------------------------------------<br>Connie Scarrott
wrote:<br><br>> I am currently studying for a Doctorate involving
software agent technology<br>> and I am seeking assistance with the
following points<br>> 1. Resources on actually developing and
implementing software agents<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I'm also currently looking
at agent platforms available on the internet. The<br>list I have is still
growing, but it might be a good starting point for you.<br>See:<a
href="http://afrodite.itc.it:1024/agents/tools.html"
eudora="autourl">http://afrodite.itc.it:1024/agents/tools.html</a><br><br><b
r>Gerhard<br><br>-----------------------<br></font></html>
>
> Hi> I am new in this group, who can suggest me a most general/multipurpose

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Dear Sir,

Could you help us to put CfP for IIP2000 into your mailing digest.

Thanks in advance

Zhongzhi Shi


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             IFIP
                       World Computer Congress 2000
                            21-25 August, 2000
                             Beijing, China
                            http://www.wcc2000.org
                        Information Processing Beyond Year 2000


                  IIP2000: Intelligent Information Processing
Intelligent solutions for information processing in the 21st century

The conference, created by the IFIP Technical Committee "Artificial
Intelligence" (TC12), is a forum for international scientific exchange,
promotion of interdisciplinary work and presentation of leading-edge
applications in selected areas of Intelligent Information Processing. As
one of the federated conferences of WCC2000, the conference will focus
on three areas, Intelligent Information Management, Knowledge-Based
System Architecture, and Distributed Intelligence, where AI methods
contribute innovative solutions and enable successful applications.

Topics of interest for paper submission

                               Track 1: Intelligent Information
Management
Web-based information services
Corporate knowledge bases
Data-mining
Content-based information retrieval
Multimedia data indexing
Subject-specific brokers
Case-based reasoning
Adaptive information presentation
                              Track 2: Knowledge-Based System
Architecture
Ontology oriented design
Knowledge-based design methodologies
Component reuse, brokering and adapting knowledge components
Generic problem-solving methods, libraries
Applications architectures
Knowledge organization for agents
Intensive knowledge-based applications
Advanced interfaces for knowledge-based systems
                               Track 3: Distributed Intelligence
Design methodologies for distributed knowledge-based systems
Multiagent systems
Mobile agents=20
Knowledge discovery in distributed databases
Neural information processing
Distributed intelligence applications

                          Other Program information

Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Proposals:
    The conference Program Committee invites proposals for workshops,
tutorials and panels. Proposals should be received by one of  the
program chairs no later than January 10, 2000.

                             Chairpersons


Conference Co-chair: DAI Ruwei (China)
Conference Co-chair: S. DOSHITA (Japan)
Conference Co-chair: B. NEUMANN (Germany
PC Co-chair: J. CUENA (Spain)
PC Co-chair: B. FALTINGS (Switzerland)
PC Co-chair: SHI Zhongzhi (China)

                          Program Committee

                 Track 1: Chair: B. Faltings, Switzerland
F. Baader (Germany)
M. Bramer (UK)
R. Feldmann (Israel)
T. Finin (USA)
J. Hendler (USA)
W. Horn (Austria)
J. Komorowski (Norway and Poland)
D. Leake (USA)
Lu Ruqie (China)B. Neumann (Germany)
Pan Yunhe (China)M. Rajman (Switzerland)
M. Sasikumar (India)
P. Schauble (Switzerland)

R. Studer (Germany)
H. Wache (Germany)
                   Track 2: Chair: J. Cuena, Spain
H. Akkermans (Netherlands)
N. Cercone (Canada)
B. Chandrasekaran (USA)
J. Cuena (Spain)
Y. Demazeau (France)
L. Gasser (USA)
R. Goebel (Canada)
G. Gottlob (Austria)
D. Leake (USA)
M. Musen (USA)
R. Mizoguchi (Japan)
E. Oliveira (Portugal)
N. Shadbolt
J. Sticklen
R. Studer (Germany)
W.R. Swartout (USA)
J. Treur (Netherlands)
Zhang Bo (China)

                         Track 3: Chair: Shi Zhongzhi, China
W. Bibel (Germany)J. Bioch  (Netherlands)
Chi Huisheng (China)
Y. Demazeau (France)
A. Drogocel (France)
L. Gasser (USA)
M. Georgeff (Australia)
J. Glasgow (Canada)
P. Gribomont (Belgium)
K. Furukawa (Japan)
I. Futo (Hungary)
J. Hsu (Taiwan)
J. Lee (Korea)
F. Lin (Hong Kong)
S. Linnainmaa (Finland)
R. Meersman (Belgium)
Z. Michalewicz (USA)
H. Liu (Singapore)
Shi Chunyi (China)
C. Smith  (USA)
A. Smirnov (Russia)
E. Sandewall (Sweden)
C. Spyropoulos (Greece)
O. Stepankova (Czech Republic)
A. Min Tjoa  (Austria)
J. Treur (Netherlands)=20
O. De Troyer (Netherlands)
D. Wang (USA)
G. Weiss (Germany)
Xu Lei (Hong  Kong)
C. Zhang (Australia)
Zhong Yixing (China)
J.-D. Zucker (France)
J. Zytkow (USA)

                                           Schedule
Submission                             January 10, 2000
Notification of acceptance              March 10, 2000
Submission of camera-ready manuscripts  April 15, 2000


                                            Contact

Prof. SHI Zhongzhi
Institute of Computing Technologies
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100800, China
Tel: (86) 10-62565533 ext. 5688
Fax: (86) 10-62567724
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I
  consider this topic could be interesting for  the absintelagent group:

From
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:17:13 +0200
>To: Donald Tillman <donald.tillman@...>
>From: "Adam M. GADOMSKI" <gadomski_a@...>
>Subject: Re: agents vs actors
>
>At 10.58 22/06/99 -0700, Donald Tillman wrote (agents@... list):
>>Hello
>>
>>I have a terminology problem. What is the difference between agent and
>>actor (or stakeholder)? When do we term something as agent, when is it an
>>actor?
>>
>>A possible definition would be: In the real-world, there are active and
>>passive actors.
>
>- Active and passive are terms from higher objects conceptualization
level, and of course,  are mandatory for agents and actors ( may be, to
speak about a passive agent, as a category, is a little contradictory
because agent must be active by definition).
>
> > An active actor would be e.g. people, which are activeley
>>performing. A passive actor could be an infrastructure element, which is
>>merely ageing. As soon as all of these actors are implemented in a program,
>>they are both termed agents.
>
>- It is well to remember that one selected abstract concept may have
different names in different contexts.
>
>>
>>Can anybody recommend a source of definitions?
...
>>------------------------------

>
>Natural languages are flexible and computer languages are stiff. Between
them are many
>intermediate metaphors.
>...
>Most frequently, in software engineering, so called, human agents are
called actors. The term Actor is associated with role (competences,
duties,responsibility,..) and acting. More deeply, we can expect that an
actor may play different roles, this is not necessary for agents.
>
>In general, you can consider : agent as a widest class, subclass is
intelligent agent, and
>actor as a subclass of intelligent agents.
>You can use Actor, where a specific problem-dependent (context-dependent)
role of an active highly autonomous object/entity/system/human is emphasized.
>
>- One should remember  that the terminological import of one term from one
domain to another requires its completely new definition in the new domain.
It is well if some abstract specific attributes of the source meaning
remain invariant.
>The best situation is when we are also able to create new generic
definition of such term valid in the both domains(*).
>
>- The second aspect necessary to take under consideration is  the
definitions are not only domain-dependent but also goal-oriented.
>- If somebody ask me about a definition of a certain concept, I always
ask him for what >this definition he/she needs.
>
>- The third aspect is that every definition for the domain X requires a
consensus of the operators
>on this domain. In case of actor and agent such consensus in computer
science, explicitly, does not exist.
>
>---------------------
>(*) it's useful to remember that the main function of every definition is
to serve only and always, for the distinguishing  of  elements  from a
preselected  domain. - And, we can mention, what is valid in the domain A
may be not valid in a domain B.
>

>Cheers
>
>Adam

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Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                     tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
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Forwarded


>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:39:53 +0200
> To: Donald Tillman
> From: "Adam M. GADOMSKI"
> Subject: Re: agents vs actors
>
> Dear Donald
>
> At 11.12 24/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > Adam
> > I realize again how different people working in different fields
understand
> > or emphasize different aspects and have a different terminology.
> ...
> >
> > An overall definition valid for everybody seems not possible.
> >...
>
> - You are too pessimistic, we should remember that not only 1 meter, 1 kg
and
> 1
> sec do not exist in the real physical world - there are many abstract
> concepts(*) which have common consensus ,completely sufficient for their
> application domains, of course. An intervention is needed when we change the
> domain.
> --------------------------
> (*)Intuitively we can write:
> - from specific experience based on the Poper's paradigm of  the scientific
> method:


>
> Abstract concept  = THEORY/MODEL ( measurable/observable/perceived concepts)
>
> - from intuitive/philosophical and social "experience": 
>
> Abstract concept  = axiom;  usually negotiated before by domain-experts,
>
> where a/b means: a and b are valid on the level of the precision of the
> discourse.
> ------------------
>
> - Adam
> ...
>



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Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                     tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
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Hi,

I have a hot questions.
I argue that we can accept that every robot systems based on an intelligent
agent is autonomous but

(1) - can to call autonomous a classical expert system be  acceptable?

(2) - Can a decision support system based on an intelligent agent be called
autonomous?
        Such IDSS asks for data, eliminates forbidden decisions, and
suggests few alternative
        decisions (what to do).

(3) -  Is 'autonomy' a necessary attribute for intelligent agents?

All opinions are welcome.

Adam




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Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                     tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
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Dear colleagues,

	 Excuse my intrussion in these lists, I was asked to
disseminate this Call For Papers.  You can find the web page
of the congress at

http://gama.lab-ia.fie.umich.mx/sigef99/

Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions
or want to submit a paper.

Sincerly yours,

Juan Flores
Member of the Program Committee
SIGEF99
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VI CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
                             FUZZY MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMY (SIGEF)

                         "Dealing with Uncertaily in the New Entrerprise
Challenges"

                         Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
                             Facultad de Contabilidad y Administración

                         FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



VENUE: Morelia. Michoacán México: November 15, 16 Y 17, 1999.

  The International Society for Fuzzy Management and Economy (SIGEF) is
pleased to announce the
organization of our Sixth Congress, to take place in Morelia, Mexico. This
Congress is co-organized with the
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Administration.

SIGEF and the congress offer a forum where academics and professionals in
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challenges. With this in mind, the
congress will take place in the City of Morelia, Mexico, under the theme
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Contributions are solicited describing original research results and
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Fuzzy Modeling of Economic Processes
Neuro-Fuzzy Models
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Data Mining and Applications to Economic Problems
Fuzzy Games Theory and Applications
Approximate Reasoning
Fuzzy Chaos Theory and Applications in Economy
Applications of Pattern Recognition to Economy
Other Methods of Uncertainty in Economy and Management
Other Related Topics

An abstract and a full version of the article must be submited before
Septembre 30th, 1999. The article must
not excede 15 pages, in Word 7.0 format, american letter, 1.5 interline
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Authors must submit their contributions to: Federico González Santoyo
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> Subject: WAI IG Call For Review: USER AGENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:11:39 -0400
> From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@...>
> To: w3c-wai-ig@...
> CC: w3c-wai-ua@...
>
> WAI IG CALL FOR REVIEW:
> "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines" Working Draft and Techniques
> draft
>
> The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) has
> prepared a Working Draft which they would like the WAI Interest Group to
> review
> before publishing on the W3C Technical Reports page.
>
> Please review the draft dated July 16, 1999 at
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-19990716/> and the Techniques
> document at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS/>.
>
> Comments are due by Tuesday, August 10, 1999. This message may be
> circulated to parties you believe have an interest in reviewing this
> draft.
> Details follow.
>
> TIMELINE FOR WAI IG REVIEW:
> Please send comments by close of business US Eastern Standard Time,
> Tuesday, August 10, 1999, at the latest.
>
> WHERE TO SEND COMMENTS:
> Send comments to the <w3c-wai-ua@...> list. The UAWG mailing list
> is archived at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua> if you
> want to view the discussion.
>
> CHANGES:
> There have been a number of important changes since the 31 March draft
> of the document. The list of changes to the document is available at
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes>. The working groups
> expects that this is the last working draft before the "last call" draft.
>
> REVIEW QUESTIONS:
> Please address the following questions in reviewing this draft. Other
> feedback is also welcome.
>
> 1. Do you agree with the priorities listed for the checkpoints?
> 2. The current draft has sub-groups of checkpoints for dependent and
> independent user agents. Are these groups sufficient? Are more
> required?
> 3. Do you have any suggestions for reducing the number of checkpoints
> in Guideline 9? Please refer also to the proposal at
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JulSep/0036.html>.
> 4. Are the dependencies with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
> ("until user agents..." etc.) appropriately reflected here?
> 5. Any unclear terms?
> 6. Any redundant or missing checkpoints?
> 7. Any recommendations for additional techniques for the Techniques
> document?
>
> QUESTIONS?
> Contact the Chair of the group, Jon Gunderson
> <jongund@...>, the
> W3C Team Contact, Ian Jacobs <ij@...>, or WAI Domain Leader Judy
> Brewer <jbrewer@...>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Judy
>
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Hi Nikos,

may Marketing  be considered high-risk domain?
If  yes than I suggest you to see my hone pages.

Any way I am very interested in all works related to methodologies and
technologies
being developed and applied in Agent-based Decision Support Systems.

In general, every exchange of information on this topic I accept with
pleasure.


Adam

At 10.32 27/08/99 +0300, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I m running a survey of Agent-based Decision Support Systems in Marketing.
> If you have any information about any software product or application or
> methodology or
> please send me.
> Thank you for your collaboration
>
> Nikos



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Adam Maria Gadomski                         sr. research scientist
Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                     tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
ENEA sites: http://www.enea.it,  http://tisgi.casaccia.enea.it/

AIA NEWS
   ========
  We have 4 information for members of the absintelagent list.
  ==================================================================

  1. The list has 174 members, it could be enough for interesting
discussions.

  2. We have many new formal possibilities, see:
http://www.egroups.com/group/absintelagent/info.html 
     http://www.egroups.com/info/infopgs/clubs.html

  3. I would like to inform you that
     from the perspective of an abstract intelligent agent concept
     The Principia Cybernetica Project is very interesting
     http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CLEA/

  4.Very URGENT CALL !!!
    --------------------
     We are looking for a partner from EU (not from Italy), for the FET
Open       project in frame of 5th Framework EU Program ( the
Assessment Proposal
     for 1 year).

   Subject:
     Development of preliminary theoretetical foundations and a
validation
     demo of an abstract intelligent agent for multipurpose Intelligent
     Decision Support Systems.

   We need:   project manager with experience in
              agent-based platform application/development and
              with other EU projects

   We have:   a draft of the proposal and other partners

   SEND EMAIL directly to A.M.Gadomski : gadomski_a@...

   Requested: your home pages address and/or some CV information.

..................................................................

P.S. Fragments of the Call  V.2.1 FET Open actions [Call part
identifier: IST-99-1-2A]:

The open domain in future and emerging technologies,  FET Open, is
intended for any ideas relevant to information society technologies
which could lead to major advances or breakthroughs.
These ideas should be bold and innovative involving high risk, or
should require substantially longer term research before coming to
fruition.
Short term, low risk research, or basic research with little prospect
of impact should not be submitted to FET Open.
Work that specifically addresses the objectives of an action within an
IST key action should be addressed to that key action, not to FET Open.
FET has specifically developed further explanatory information
concerning its part of the IST Programme, which can be consulted at
<http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome>http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome.
In FET Open actions, funding is available for Assessment projects or
“normal”  shared-cost RTD projects.

- Only about 5 pages of the proposal description is requested (Part B).
- About 10 Lines of  every CV,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This forwarded message can be interesting for the AIA egroup,
especially the workshop 1.


A.M.Gadomski
Absintelagent List moderator

================
>
> From: Omer F Rana
> Subject: Call for Participation/Abstracts/Short Papers
> ...
>
>
>  A Workshop organised by the
>  `Emergent Computing' Network
>
>
>
<http://images.ee.umist.ac.uk/emergent/>http://images.ee.umist.ac.uk/emergent/
>
>  Self-Organising Systems - Future Prospects for Computing
>  28-29 October 1999
>      Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST
>
>
> This is the first of 5 workshops being organised by the `Emergent Computing'
> network, to bring together multi-disciplinary ideas from complex systems,
> AI, optimisation theory and non-linear systems, neural networks,
> neuro-biology and computer science.
>
> The five workshops are:
>
> 1. Self-Organising Systems
>  at the University of Manchester Institute of
>  Science and Technology, UK
>
> 2. Spatially Distributed Nonlinear Systems
>  at the University of Leeds, UK  (December 1999)
>
> 3. Associative Computing
>  at the University of York, UK (February 2000)
>
> 4. Emergent Computation in Molecular and Cellular Biology
>  at the University of Hertfordshire, UK (April 2000)
>
> 5. Strategies for Implementing Large Scale Emergent
>  Computing Systems
>  at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK (July 2000)
>
> Details of the first of these is below.
>
>
> Introduction
> ------------
>
> A two-day Workshop covering various aspects of self-organising systems
> - both natural and artificial - aims to introduce the best of
> international and UK activity. The overall focus is the current and
> future application of self-organisation as alternate paradigm for
> "intelligent" computation. The Workshop represents an important
> opportunity for those active or interested in self-organising system
> research and application to hear about current work, discuss future
> directions and priorities, and form invaluable research contacts.
>
> Format
> ------
>
> The Workshop will commence at lunch-time on the 28 October and finish
> late afternoon on the 29 October. A detailed programme will be issued
> by the end of Setember.
>
> Guest Speaker
> -------------
>
> The after-dinner speaker is Professor Euan Macphail (University of York)
>
>        - author of "The Evolution of Consciousness" (OUP, 1998)
>
> Invited Speakers
> ----------------
>
> The following speakers have agreed to give presentations on their recent
> work and suggest future directions:
>
> 1. Bernd Fritzke,
>    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Dresden University of Technology
> 2. Risto Miikkulainen, Dept. of Computer Sciences,
>    University of Texas Austin
> 3. Klaus Obermayer, Dept. of Computer Sciences,
>    Technical University of Berlin 
> 4. Moshe Sipper,
>    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
>
> Contributed Talks - Invitation to Contribute
> --------------------------------------------
>
> You are invited to contribute to this workshop, please submit your
> abstract using the on-line submission form at
>
>
> <http://images.ee.umist.ac.uk/emergent/submit.html>http://images.ee.umist.
> ac.uk/emergent/submit.html
>
> Your 250-300 word abstract should include title, authors, affiliations,
> source of external support (if any) and the body of the abstract should
> stress the relevance of your work (however distant) to future
> unconventional computation.  Abstracts should be submitted by 17
> September and you will be notified of acceptance within two weeks. All
> accepted talks will be allocated 20-25 minutes and be prepared to
> submit overheads, etc for inclusion in the Workshop information pack.
> The contributions selected for publication in the proceedings of the
> entire workshop series will be not required until after the Workshop.
> Detailed instructions will be issued later.
>
> Discussions
> -----------
>
> Ample opportunity will provided for discussions not just on the
> research presented at the Workshop but on the more general issues of
> self-organising systems. The later will be used to inform future
> Research Council programmes and funding priorities.
>
> Location
> --------
>
> The Workshop will take place at the Manchester Conference Centre
> (<http://www.meeting.co.uk/>http://www.meeting.co.uk/) (Weston Conference
> Centre), UMIST,
> Manchester. The Conference Centre is within five minutes walk of the
> main Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station and is on the main UMIST
> Campus.
>
> Registration
> ------------
>
> The fee covers Workshop attendance, meals (including the Workshop
> Dinner) and en-suite accommodation for the night of 28/29 October. The
> inclusive cost is 75 UK pounds - please use the on-line form to register.
> This
> registration fee is heavily subsidised by EPSRC. As one of the
> functions of the Workshop is to promote extensive informal discussions,
> all Workshop delegates are expected to residential. Places are limited
> and registration should be completed by 24 September. A small number of
> bursaries are available for registered UK research students to assist
> with travel and Workshop costs. Such students should be engaged on an
> appropriate research project. If you wish to apply for a bursary please
> contact Professor Nigel M Allinson (allinson@...) giving brief
> details of your PhD project, why it would benefit you to attend this
> Workshop and contact details for you supervisor.
>
> Publication
> -----------
>
> The proceedings of this and the other Emergent Behaviour Computing
> Workshops will be published by Springer-Verlag as a highlighted volume
> of their "Lecture Notes in Computer Science". All invited talks will be
> included, together with a refereed selection of contributed talks and
> summaries of discussions. It is expected that contributed talks can be
> up to ten "camera-ready" pages. Publication date will be September
> 2000.
>
> General Enquiries
> -----------------
>
> Any general questions relating to this Workshop, please contact
> Professor Nigel M Allinson (allinson@...).
>
>
> --
> work:+44 (0)2920-875542 / otherwise:+44 0956-299981 / parallel and
scientific
> computation / room S2.03 / dept of computer science / university of wales
> - cardiff / po box 916 / cardiff cf24 3xf / uk / email: o.f.rana@...
>
> --
> See
<<http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agentslist>http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agentslist> for
> list info & archives.

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.]


                ****************************************
                *                                      *
                *   IAT'99 :  Call for Participation   *
                *                                      *
                ****************************************

      1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
                ========================================
                     December 14-17 1999   Hong Kong

              Homepage:  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99


You are invited to attend and participate in the First Asia-Pacific
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'99) to be held in Hong
Kong on December 14-17, 1999.  The conference will take place at the Lam
Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

IAT'99 is an international forum that will bring together innovators
from around the world in the growing field of intelligent agents and
their applications to share their original research results and
practical development experiences. A unique feature of the conference
is that it emphasizes a multi-facet view of the emerging agent technology,
from its computational foundations, in terms of models, methodologies,
and tools for developing a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems,
to its practical impact on tackling real-world problems.

The technical program of IAT'99 is structured into 17 sessions, focusing
on the following areas:

             A.  Agent Architectures
             B.  Multiagent Cooperation
             C.  Distributed Intelligence
             D.  Formal Agent Theories
             E.  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents
             F.  Personalized Web Agents
             G.  Software Agents
             H.  Mobile Agents
             I.  Agent-Supported Enterprise

INVITED SPEAKERS

*   Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
      "How Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex  Problems?"
*    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw,  The Boeing Company, USA
      "Steps Toward the Permanent Colonization of Cyberspace"
*    Daniel T. Ling,  Microsoft Corporation, USA
       "Intelligent Agents: Embodied and Disembodied"
*   Jan Zytkow,  University of North Carolina, USA
      "Robot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent Agent"

TUTORIALS

         1.  Tandy Trower / Microsoft Corporation
              "Creating Conversational Interfaces for Interactive Software
Agents"

         2.  Carlos Martin-Vide / Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona
              "Grammar Systems: A Formal Language Theoretic Multi-Agent
              Architecture"

         3.  Dit-Yan Yeung / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
              "Biometrics for Authentication and Identification "

         4.  Adam Maria Gadomski / Italian National Research Agency ENEA
              "An Introduction to Intelligent Decision Support Systems"

         5.  Patrick S. Wang / Northeastern University
              "Intelligent Pattern recognition and Applications"


         6.  Boris Stilman / University of Colorado at Denver
              "Linguistic Geometry: Winning Strategies for Multiagent Systems"

         7.  Tandy Trower  / Microsoft Corporation
              "Adding Character to Your Web Pages and Applications"

104 full papers were submitted from 24 countries and regions of all
continents. Out of them, 29 regular papers (27.8%) and 36 short papers
were accepted for presentation and publication. The proceedings of
IAT'99 is published by The World Scientific Publishing as a book,
entitled "Intelligent Agent Technology: Systems, Methodologies, and
Tools" (ISBN 981-02-4054-6).

IAT'99 is sponsored by Hong Kong Baptist University, The Croucher
Foundation, Epson Foundation, The MIT Press, ACM Hong Kong, IEEE
Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter, and in cooperation with ACM
SIGART, SIGKDD, and SIGCHI.

================
SPECIAL FEATURES
================

The IAT'99 program is enriched by 4 invited speakers: Setsuo Ohsuga,
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Jan Zytkow, and Daniel Ling, from Artificial
Intelligence, Autonomous Agents, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
and User Interfaces communities.

The IAT'99 participants will be able to see and try new technologies
close up at the IAT'99 Agent Technology Exhibition, featuring live
system demonstrations from MITRE Corporation, IBM Santa Teresa Lab,
IBM Almaden Research Center, NEC, Toshiba, Japan Information-technology
Promotion Agency (IPA), and a number of other corporate/university labs.

As part of the technical program, a panel discussion on Trends and
Prospects of Intelligent Agent Technology will be held and chaired
by Jeffrey Bradshaw.

==============
SOCIAL PROGRAM
==============

In order to provide a better opportunity for the IAT'99 participants
to discover Hong Kong, IAT'99 will include a complimentary
sightseeing bus tour to visit some of the most famous scenic places
in Hong Kong.

Immediately following the sightseeing tour, the IAT'99 participants
and their guests will get a chance to see Hong Kong at night and to
interact with each other in a very informal, relaxing atmosphere, as
they take part in the IAT'99 Cruise with Buffet Banquet.

   (NOTE: Admission tickets are limited and will be offered on a
   first-come-first-serve basis. The student registration does not
   include the admission to the banquet.)

==================
EARLY REGISTRATION
==================

The deadline for early registration is *November 1, 1999*.
Registration forms for the conference, tutorials, and workshop
("Agents in E-Commerce") can be found at the IAT'99 homepage:

                 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99


                       ======================
                       IAT'99 ADVANCE PROGRAM
                       ======================

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tuesday, December 14 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--------------------------------
Tutorials and
Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce
--------------------------------
(Full Day)

---------------------------
Pre-Conference Registration
---------------------------

16:00 - 18:00


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wednesday, December 15 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Registration
08:30 - 09:00

Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 09:20

Reception
09:20 - 09:35

------------
Invited Talk
------------
09:35 - 10:35
     How Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex Problems?
        Prof. Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda University, Japan)

------------------------------------
Session 1    Agent Architectures (I)
------------------------------------
10:40 - 11:40

(1) A Framework for Multi-Agent Systems Development
        David Kinny (University of Melbourne, Australia)
(2) A Reactive Scheduling Agent Architecture for Coordinating
     Assistants
        Wayne Wobcke (BT laboratories, UK)
        Arash Sichanie
        (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
(3) Evaluating the FIPA Standards on the Field: An Audio Video
     Entertainment Application
        R. Cattoni and A. Potrich (ITC-irst, Centro per la
        Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica SSI Division, Italy)
        P. Charlton and E. Mamdani
        (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)

---------------------------------------
Session 2    Multiagent Cooperation (I)
---------------------------------------
10:40 - 11:40

(1) Facilitate Agreement in Cooperative Design by Detecting
     Irrational Claims in Negotiation
        T. Yoshida, T. Teduka and S. Nishida
        (Osaka University, Japan)
(2) Mutual Valuations between Agents and Their Coalitions
        Stefan J. Johansson
        (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
(3) Reinforcement Learning with Bidding for Automatic
     Segmentation
        Ron Sun (University of Missouri, USA)
        Chad Sessions (University of Alabama, USA)

Coffee Break
11:40 - 11:55

-------------------------------------
Session 3    Agent Architectures (II)
-------------------------------------
11:55 - 12:55

(1) A Multi-Agent Approach to Self-Organizing Vision Systems
        Thorsten Graf and Alois Knoll
        (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
(2) Robot Media Communication: A Real-World Guide Agent to
     Construct Transparent Knowledge Boundaries between Real
     and Virtual Spaces
        Noriko Etani
        (Nara Institute Of Science and Technology, Japan)
(3) Gate Growth: Grammar Encoded Evolutionary Design for
     Autonomous Agent
        Kensuke Takita (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
        Yukinori Kakazu (Hokkaido University, Japan)

--------------------------------
Session 4    Software Agents (I)
--------------------------------
11:55 - 12:55

(1) Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Internet Data
        Elizabeth Sklar (Brandeis University, USA)
        Alan D. Blair (University of Queensland, Australia)
        Pablo Funes and Jordan Pollack (Brandeis University, USA)
(2) Goodinator: Quick and Prudent Meeting Coordination with a
     Multi-Agent System
        Koji Kida, Kenji Yoshifu, Takayoshi Asakura and
        Toshiaki Miyashita (NEC Corporation, Japan)
(3) Natural Language Processing in Multi-Agent Systems
        Jingye Zhou (Xiangtan University, China)
        Jianwen Yin, Jianer Chen and John Yen

        (Texas A&M University, USA)

Lunch
12:55 - 14:00

------------
Invited Talk
------------
14:00 - 15:00
     Steps Toward the Permanent Colonization of Cyberspace
        Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (The Boeing Company, USA)

----------------------------------------
Session 5    Multiagent Cooperation (II)
----------------------------------------
15:05 - 16:05

(1) How to Cooperate in Iterated Chicken Game and Iterated
     Prisoner's Dilemma?
        Bengt Carlsson (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
(2) An Argument-Based Agent System with the Contract Net Protocol
        Shinya Maeda, Chunyang Guan and Hajime Sawamura
        (Niigata University, Japan)
(3) Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Coordination
        David Ramamonjisoa and Issam A. Hamid
        (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)

------------------------------
Session 6    Mobile Agents (I)
------------------------------
15:05 - 16:05

(1) Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Route Tracing by Use of
     Mobile Agents
        Midori Asaka
        (Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan)
        Takefumi Onabuta
        (The Japan Research Institute, Ltd. Japan)
        Shinichi Nakasuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
(2) Intention Spreading: An Extensible Theme to Protect Mobile
     Agents from Read Attack Hoisted by Malicious Hosts
        Sau-Koon Ng and Kwok-Wai Cheung
        (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
(3) DBMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Databases
        Jianrong Chen, Sue Greenwood and John Nealon
        (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:20

-------------------------------------
Session 7    Distributed Intelligence
-------------------------------------
16:20 - 18:00

(1) From ALife Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens
        Han Jing (University of Science and Technology of China)
        Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)
        Cai Qingsheng (University of Science and Technology of China)
(2) Soap Bubbles and the Dynamical Behavior of Multi-Agent
     Systems
        W. K. F. Lor and P. De Wilde
        (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
(3) The Motivation for Dynamic Adaptive Autonomy in
     Agent-Based Systems
        K. Suzanne Barber, Anuj Goel and Cheryl E. Martin
        (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
(4) A Team Model in a Dynamic Fire World
        M. Goyal and N. Parameswaran
        (University of New South Wales, Australia)
(5) How Flexible Should Agent Behaviour Languages Be?
        B. Mayoh, T. Krink, E. G. Werk (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
        Du Junping (Automation Department, China)

--------------------------------------
Session 8    Formal Agent Theories (I)
--------------------------------------
16:20 - 18:00

(1) Knowledge Granularity Spectrum, Action Pyramid, and the
     Scaling Problem
        Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
        John K. Tsotsos  (University of Toronto, Canada)
(2) Embodied Ontologies: Ontologies for Real Agents
        Hiroshi Tsukimoto (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
(3) Recipe Structure for Dynamic Worlds
        S. Au and N. Parameswaran

        (University of New South Wales, Australia)
(4) Dynamic Planning Model for Agent's Preference Satisfaction:
     First Results
        Pavlos Moraitis
        (Technical University of Crete Greece, Greece)
        Alexis Tsoukias
        (University of Paris-Dauphine France, France)
(5) Belief-Goal-Role Agents: From Conception to Specification
        Walid Chainbi (FSEG-SFAX, Tunisia)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thursday, December 16 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

------------
Invited Talk
------------
08:45 - 09:45
     Robot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent Agent
        Prof. Jan M. Zytkow (University of North Carolina, USA)

-------------------------------------------
Session 9    Agent-Supported Enterprise (I)
-------------------------------------------
09:50 - 11:10

(1) Improving Telecom Service Access Convergence Using
     Software Agents
        Marko Palola, Marko Heikkinen and Rauli Kaksonen
        (VTT Electronics, Finland)
(2) Allocative Auctions: An Application Context for CSCW and
     Intelligent Agents
        Helen Meng, Yuk Chi Li, Ka Kit Lau and Yun Wing Lee
        (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
(3) Self-Adaptation and Reconfiguration of an Agent-Based
     Production System: Virtual Factory
        Yingjiu Liu, Pierre Massotte and Pierre Couturier
        (Ales School of Mines, France)
(4) Supporting Collaborative Building Design: A Multi-Agent
     Approach
        Wei Dai, R. Drogemuller, J. Mashford, M. Rahilly and
        K. K. Yum
        (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
        Organisation, Australia)

-----------------------------------------
Session 10    Personalized Web Agents (I)
-----------------------------------------
09:50 - 11:10

(1) A Personalized Web Agent with Implicit Feedback and
     Hybrid Filtering Strategy
        Junggee Han and Juntae Kim (Dongguk University, Korea)
(2) User Profile Based Personalized Web Agent
        Young Jun. So, Hae Jung Baek,  and Young-Tack Park
        (Soongsil University, Korea)
(3) Multi-Agent Based Approach for Information Retrieval in
     the WWW
        Tarek Helmy, Babak Hodjat and Makoto Amamiya
        (Kyushu University, Japan)
(4) Distributed Information Retrieval Agent JMAT
        Zhongzhi Shi, Wei Li, Hu Cao and Xiaoli Li
        (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:25

------------------------------------------------------------
Session 11    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents (I)
------------------------------------------------------------
11:25 - 13:05

(1) An Agent-Based Architecture in Knowledge Discovery and
     Data Mining
        T. B. Ho, T. D. Nguyen and N. B. Nguyen
        (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
(2) Learning Novel Concepts through Natural Language
        Jingye Zhou (Xiangtan University, China)
        Jianwen Yin, Jianer Chen and John Yen
        (Texas A&M University, USA)
(3) An Efficient K-Means-Based Clustering Algorithm
        D. L. Yang, J. H. Chang, M. C. Hong and J. S. Liu
        (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
(4) Design of Robust, Survivable Intrusion Detection Agent

        Sourav Bhattacharya and Nong Ye
        (Arizona State University, USA)
(5) A Bayesian Alarm Network as Independent Intrusion
     Detection System
        Dusan Bulatovic (Informatika ad Yugoslavia)
        Dusan Velasevic (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

----------------------------------------
Session 12    Formal Agent Theories (II)
----------------------------------------
11:25 - 13:05

(1) Modeling Sociality in the BDI Framework
        Pietro Panzarasa, Timothy J. Norman and
        Nicholas R. Jennings
        (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,
        UK)
(2) Modeling Agents as Reflective Intentional Systems
        Maria Fasli (University of Essex, UK)
(3) Circumscribed-Polyhedron Approximation for Maximum
     Hypersphere Search
        Hiroshi Watanabe and Einoshin Suzuki
        (Yokohama National University, Japan)
(4) An Agent System in Stratums Theory
        Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo (Colombia)
(5) Towards Situation-Specific Agent Theories
        Paul Davidsson and Bertil Ekdahl
        (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)

Lunch
13:05 - 14:15

-------------------------------------------------------------
Session 13    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents (II)
-------------------------------------------------------------
14:15 - 15:15

(1) Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous Databases Using a
     Client-Side Meta Search Agent
        Taehee Kim, Seonho Kim, Sun-Hwa Hahn and Jin-Hyung Kim
        (Korea Research and Development Information Center)
(2) Active User Interfaces for Building Decision-Theoretic
     Systems
        Scott M. Brown (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
        Eugene Santos Jr. (University of Connecticut, USA)
        Sheila B. Banks (Calculated Insight, Orlando, USA)
(3) System Expansion and Integration with Agents in HSTAT
        Xiaocheng Luan (AppNet Inc., USA)
        Maureen Prettyman (National Library of Medicine, USA)
        Robert Antonucci (AppNet Inc., USA)

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Agent Exhibition Show Time
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14:15 - 15:30

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Sightseeing Tour
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15:30 - 19:30

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Cruise and Banquet Party
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20:00 - 23:00


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Friday, December 17 1999
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Invited Talk
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09:00 - 10:00
     Intelligent Agents: Embodied and Disembodied
        Dr. Daniel T. Ling (Microsoft Corporation, USA)

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Session 14    Software Agents (II)
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10:05 - 11:05

(1) Microsoft Agent, A Multi-Client Programming Interface
     for Interactive Computer Characters
        Tandy Trower (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
(2) An Adaptive Meeting Scheduling Agent
        J. William Murdock and Ashok K. Goel
        (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
(3) Software Interface Agents
        Yong Jin Cho, Dong Hyun Roh and Hyun S. Yang
        (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

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Session 15    Mobile Agents (II)
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10:05 - 11:05

(1) Learning Improves Mobile Agent Efficiency
        Sam Joseph, Masanori Hattori and Naoki Kase
        (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
(2) Increasing the Dependability in a Multi-Agent System
        Ralph Deters (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
(3) An Efficient Fault-tolerant Protocol for Mobile Agents
        Ting On Lee and Kam W. Ng
        (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:20

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Session 16    Personalized Web Agents (II)
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11:20 - 13:00

(1) Information Filtering on the Web:
     a Hybrid Case-Based Approach
        G. L. Gentili, M. Marinilli, A. Micarelli and
        F. Sciarrone
        (Universit di Roma Tre Dipartimento di Informatica e
        Automazione, Italy)
(2) Engineering Information Discovery and Monitoring Systems
     along the Dimensions of Agency and Ontology
        Kwang Mong Sim and Pui Tak Wong
        (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)
(3) Intelligent Information Discovery with Self-Training
     Autonomous Agents
        D. Fragoudis and S. D. Likothanassis
        (University of Patras, Greece)
(4) More Efficient Web Searching by Modeling Users'
     Long-Term Goals
        Dimitre Dimitrov and James Warren
        (University of South Australia, Australia)
(5) Information Retrieval Agents Based on Evolutionary
     Computation to Reflect User Preference
        Jee-Haeng Lee and Sung-Bae Cho
        (Yonsei University, Korea)

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Session 17    Agent-Supported Enterprise (II)
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11:20 - 13:00

(1) Supporting Coordination: A Multi-Agent Approach
        Monica Divitini
        (IDI-Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology,
        Norway)
(2) Agent-Based Information Gathering System for
     Life Cycle Costs
        Tiemei Irene Zhang and Elizabeth Kendall
        (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
(3) Applying Market Based Agent to Fuzzy Decision
     Support System
        P. W. Lei, M. I. Heywood and C. R. Chatwin
        (University of Macao, Macao)
(4) Virtual Enterprise Information System
        Li Yu, Huang Biqing and Wu Cheng
        (Tsinghua University, China)
(5) A Virtual Shop Navigation System Based on the
     Multi-Agent Technology
        N. Bensaid and Ph. Mathieu
        (Universite de Lille I, France)

Lunch
13:00 - 14:15
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Panel: Trends and Prospects of IAT
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14:15 - 15:15
Chair: Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

The AIA concept seems to be an interesting reference point in the
socio-cognitivistic research.

George


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At 20.53 28/09/99 -0400, Luke Kaven wrote:
>
>Gary Noel Boone writes:
>>It was fashionable in the 60s to try to explain curious features of
>>animals by figuring out how these features were adaptive. What was the
>>purpose of wings? Why, to fly, of co ...


About Function, Goal and Agent

In everyday practice we use the concept function in two notions.
It is either mathematical function or a goal-oriented property of a thing.
The last one depends on our practical application/use of the thing, it
means it is not a physical property.
From the engineering perspective, engineering system functions  are
internal and external.
External results from the user requirements and are relations between the
system and its environment, internals are consequence of  technologies
employed.
Using engineering point of view on human organizations we may say that they
also
have functions because they have always a foundation goal.

Pseudo-functions are properties of not engineering systems (living systems)
which satisfy some pseudo-goals, for instance the integrity, survival, ...
of the system.
In practice, this operational assumption (metaphor) is so useful for the
system  diagnosis, modifications and so on, that if something continuously
offers some "service" to the others, it is considered as the "real"
definition of function, by many researchers.

Goal, as a concept, exists only for intelligent agent. It is a state
localized out site of the system in discourse.
In general, goal and functions can be considered relative. If we assume
that X is a goal for SS  in the distinguished another system SE, then a
property Y of SS necessary to achieve X,  is a function. If we assume that
Z is a goal for the integrated system SS+ SE,  and X is
the necessary property for this then X  can be considered as a requested
function of SS+ SE.
In the above context we also have functional definitions.
For instance, quasi all agent definitions are functional. They specify what
agent does, but
the goals are usually implicit.
Usually, the function specifies only what system does/may do,  but not how
it is/will be
performed.

'Agent'  term is used to call  certain software systems, cognitive systems,
engineering and
natural.
Of course in all these domains, every agent should have the same set of
abstract properties.
This aggregate of abstract common properties can be called 'abstract agent'.
Not only in my opinion, if we intend to exclude all physical interactions
between physical bodies, an agent must be goal-oriented,  and as a
consequence, it also has functions.

Here, we need to distinguish design-goal and intervention-goal.
A design-goals  have every mechanical tool which we exclude from the
denotation field of agent concept. Therefore, an agent should have
intervention-goals and, in the behavioral perspective, goals should be
dependent on circumstances, in the contrary, all software programs will be
agents.
The problem is how in a simplest and sufficiently general manner to define
a goal choice.

As an intervention-goal is defined as a hypothetical state of  the agent's
domain of activity,
every agent should have some more or less ordered "base" of the possible
states of this domain, according to an utility/importance/... scale.
I think that we may accept this, as an assumption for us and as a condition
for an agent definition.
A minimal ordering is done by the ordered couples, it could be the
mathematical preference relation.
From the preferences base results such concepts as desires, if we add
concrete goals we may obtain intentions.

- More information about the above conceptualization, and how it is going
on, you can find on my home-pages.
The next will be added in the near future, I hope.

Cheers

Adam




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Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                     tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
ENEA sites: http://www.enea.it,  http://tisgi.casaccia.enea.it/

To: kcox@...
Cc: Marta Olivetti" <olivetti@...>, Diederik Aerts
<diraerts@...>, ctsoc@onelist.com,  absintelagent@egroups.com



Dear Kevin,

In my opinion the cognitive technology will be one of the most important
tools of the post-modern system engineering in the 21st century.
I appreciate very much your initiative.
I am especially interested in meta-system engineering, intelligent cognitive
agents and ... their formal and applicative contexts.

I suggest you to add, on the CTS pages, a list of some basic CT definitions.
Of course they need a consensus, therefore I also suggest to start a
discussion about them.

For example

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
(<http://www.bergen.org/technology/whatech.html>http://www.bergen.org/techno
logy/whatech.html)

- Technology is the technical means people use to improve their
surroundings. It is also knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks
efficiently.

We use technology to control the world in which we live. Technology is
people using knowledge, tools, and systems to make their lives easier and
better.
<http://www.bergen.org/technology/defin.html>http://www.bergen.org/technolo
gy/defin.html
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SOME MY PROPOSALS: The second Face of CT (for negotiation)

0.
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Definitions and terminology are fundaments of our communication platform,
therefore they should be discussed and some standards should be suggested by
the CT society!
We can argue that
The progress in cognitive technology, as in every interdisciplinary RTD field,
  is proportional to the increment of the precision of the concepts/terms used.

1.
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Technology are mental and real tools, materials and components developed by
humans and directly employed in the engineering in the real world.

-  It also includes manuals, methods and procedures.

Using AI language; technology are sets of natural and engineering systems, and
knowledge about them, being used in/for engineering.

Technologies are usually divided according to different physical domains of
interest of their users.
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2.
Meta-technology represents common systemic knowledge valid and applicable
for every technology.
- Meta-technology is necessary for the engineering development of any
particular technology.

3.
Modern System engineering uses meta-system & meta-technology analysis,
research and development.

4.
Knowledge is everything what transform information into information.
Knowledge is an abstract property of every goal-oriented system.

5.
Information is everything what describes every identifiable domain of interest
(of activity).

6.
Data is everything what is/can be processed.


For example, from this point of view we have the following relations:

- informations are data for knowledge.
- knowledge are data for meta-knowledge.
- every information are data but not every data are information.


On the other hand, we have scientific and observation-based theories, they are
not goal-oriented, and, of course, they are not technologies.
But ... if we recognize a certain scientific theory as a useful
conceptualization tool for a certain class of engineering problems then it
becomes a part of technology.

COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Cognitive technologies are conceptual and software tools and components for
the construction of human (users) models, especially necessary for the
design of various intelligent computer systems, as well as for their
designing too.

Cognitive technologies are developed in the context of the cognitive science.

They include different reasoning methods and agent architectures that are
based on the identification of human brain and mental (abstract) functions.
In the last case, they are an abstraction of human-mental thinking processes.

For example, the development of specific numerical problem solving methods
are not cognitivistic tasks but an elaboration of their qualitative
"logical" human-like management methods is the task for CT.

I think that the goal-oriented management of uncertainty and incompleteness
of information and knowledge are most characteristic tasks of CT.

At the end, the central/reference point of CT is an abstract,
domain-independent, action-oriented decision-making (DIAD) process.
- Its efficacy depends on intelligence of decision-maker, and ... this is
the problem.

Therefore, I see an abstract intelligent agent as an acceptable
CT model, as well as a subject and object in the CT research.

Summarizing, I consider the above opinions as the second face of CT which is
complementary to the point of view represented, for instance, by THIRD
INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, CT'99: NETWORKED MINDS, 1999.


                                                 [A.M.Gadomski,Sept.1999]

More detailed vision of the symbolic knowledge-based branch of CT
in the context of the human reliability, meta-system engineering, IDSSs
(Intelligent Decision-Support Systems) and 'mindware' will be available soon
on my home pages.

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Kind regards

- Adam

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Adam Maria Gadomski                         Sr. research scientist
Italian National Research Agency  ENEA
C.R.Casaccia,s.p.111                        tel.+39-06-3048-3404 (-3504)
00060 Rome                                  fax.+39-06-3048 6511
Home page:  http://wwwerg.casaccia.enea.it/ing/tispi/gadomski/
ENEA sites: http://www.enea.it,  http://tisgi.casaccia.enea.it/