ADDING SEMANTICS TO SOCIAL WEBSITES FOR CITIZEN (2009)
Sims Parr, Joel Sachs, Tim Finin
While efforts are underway to represent existing ecological databases semantically, so that they may be intelligently queried and integrated by agents, less attention has been paid to 1) rapidly...
Semantic Web Challenge Chairs (2009)
Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal, Daniel Olmedilla, Iswc Sponsor, Gold Sponsor, Silver Sponsor, ...
We would like to express our special thanks to all sponsorsISWC 2007 Organizing Committee
Policy Conflict Analysis Using Free Variable Tableaux for Access Control in Web 5 (2009)
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Jim Hendler (eds
Workshop schedule 3 Call for papers 4
TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (2009)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan
Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) system to work in Agentcities, an open multiagent systems environment of FIPA...
TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (2009)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding
Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) system to work in the Agentcities environment. Auction services are added to...
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories A Semantic Web Services Architecture (2008)
Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Michal Zaremba, Tim Finin, Michael N. Huhns, Massimo Paolucci, ...
The Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture (SWSA) committee has created a set of architectural and protocol abstractions that serve as a foundation for Semantic Web service technologies. This...
Lalana Kagal, Vladimir Korolev, Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Abstract. In the near future, we will see dramatic changes in computing and networking hardware. A large number of devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, even small household appliances) will become...
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages (2008)
James May, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
This paper o ers some opinions on the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata are divided into seven categories: form,...
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories A Semantic Web Services Architecture (2008)
Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Michal Zaremba, Tim Finin, Michael Huhns, Massimo Paolucci, ...
The Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture (SWSA) committee has created a set of architectural and protocol abstractions as a foundation for Semantic Web service technologies.This article...
On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity 1 (2008)
Anubhav Kale, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
There is a growing interest in exploring the role of social networks to understand how communities and individuals spread influence. In a densely connected online world, social media and networks...
Minor(s): Professional publications: (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
’03). Title of Thesis: Extending Reasoning Infrastructure for Rules on the Semantic Web:
A Data Intensive Reputation Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (2008)
Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Abstract — In vehicular ad hoc networks individual vehicles can help each other locate resources and establish trustworthiness under highly dynamic conditions, lacking any centralized trust...
Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere ABSTRACT (2008)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Tim Oates
Blogs have become a means by which new ideas and information spreads rapidly on the web. They often discuss the latest trends and echo with reactions to different events in the world. The collective...
Web (2.0) Mining: Analyzing Social Media (2008)
Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anubhav Kale, Pranam Kolari
Social media systems such as blogs, photo and link sharing sites, wikis and on-line forums are estimated to produce up to one third of new Web content. One thing that sets these ”Web 2.0 ” sites...
F-OWL: an Inference Engine for the Semantic Web 1 (2008)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Harry Chen
Abstract. Understanding and using the data and knowledge encoded in semantic web documents requires an inference engine. F-OWL is an inference engine for the semantic web language OWL language based...
Protecting the privacy of passive RFID tags (2008)
Nimish Vartak, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Paul Nagy
Abstract — Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging wireless technology with many potential applications, including supply chain management, personnel tracking and point of sale...
Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Tim Finin
e-mail: The date of receipt and acceptance will be inserted by the editor Abstract Locating and obtaining context sensitive information in a mobile environment has always been a challenge. This is...
Status: Operational Research Prototype (2008)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboro
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Second Space: a Generative Model for the Blogosphere (2008)
Amit Kar, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yaacov Yesha, Yelena Yesha
Analysing complex natural phenomena often requires synthesized data that matches observed characteristics. Graph models are widely used in analyzing the Web in general, but are less suitable for...
Report on the Models of Trust for the Web Workshop (MTW’06) (2008)
We live in a time when millions of people are adding information to the Web through a growing collection of tools and platforms. Ordinary citizens publish all kinds of content on Web pages, blogs,...
The Effect of Perceptual Structure on Multimodal Speech Recognition Interfaces (2008)
Michael A. Grasso, Ph. D, David Ebert, Ph. D, Tim Finin, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE SKILLS (2008)
Dr. Tim Finin, Dr. Yelena Yesha, Dr. Hillol Kargupta, Dr. Arya Gangopadhyay, Dr. Mukesh Singhal
� 4+ years of research experience � Industry experience at IBM, Aether Systems (1 year combined) � 1 patent � 2 journal publications and 12 refereed conference and workshop publications...
Scheduler Classifier Planner (2008)
Robert Neches, Richard Fikes, Tim Finin, Thomas Gruber, Ramesh Patil, Ted Senator, ...
Ever since the midseventies, researchers have recognized that capturing knowledge is the key to building large and powerful AI systems. In the years since, we have also found that representing...
TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (2008)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan
Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) system to work in Agentcities, an open multiagent systems environment of FIPA...
Abstract An Approach to Dynamic Service Management in Pervasive Computing Systems ∗ (2008)
Lalana Kagal, Vladimir Korolev, Tim Finin, Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi
In the near future, we will see dramatic changes in computing and networking hardware. A large number of devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, even small household appliances) will become computationally...
Abstract Agent Development with Jackal (2008)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboro
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Policy enabled applications are being increasingly employed to support responsive Information Technology services. In competitive business environments, such services increase adaptability of both...
Piero A. Bonatti, Li Ding, Tim Finin, Daniel Olmedilla, Ii Piero, A. Bonatti, ...
Policies are pervasive in web applications. They play crucial roles in enhancing security, privacy and usability of distributed services, and indeed may determine the success (or failure) of a web...
Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources (2008)
Cynthia Sims, Joel Sachs, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, ...
We demonstrate an end-to-end use case of the semantic web’s utility for synthesizing ecological and environmental data. ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information System) is a...
Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Policy enabled applications are being increasingly employed to support responsive Information Technology services. In competitive business environments, such services increase adaptability of both...
Sheetal Agarwal, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Tim Ganous
We describe a prototype Context Aware Perioperative Information System to capture and interpret data in an operating room of the future. The captured data is used to construct the context of the...
Data Persistence: A Design Principle for Hybrid Robot Control Architectures (2008)
Name Of C, Idate Mithun Sheshagiri, Mithun Sheshagiri, Marie Desjardins, Mithun Sheshagiri, ...
Professional publications:
Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities (2008)
Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular...
Both conversation specifications and policies are required to facilitate effective agent communication. Specifications provide the order in which speech acts can occur in a meaningful conversation,...
Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Zhongli Ding, Sasikanth Avancha, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, ...
The Semantic Web is well recognized as an effective infrastructure to enhance visibility of knowledge on the Web. The core of the Semantic Web is ontology, which is used to explicitly represent our...
Querying in Packs: Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks (2008)
Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
We describe a trust-based data management framework enabling mobile devices to access the distributed computation, storage, and sensory resources available in pervasive computing environments....
Agent Communication In DAML World 1 (2008)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Yun Peng, Anupam Joshi, Scott Cost
Abstract. Darpa Agent Markup Language (DAML) [7] is the newest effort for Semantic Web [5]. It can be used to create ontologies and markup information resource like web pages. The information...
Abstract Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi
Spam blogs, or splogs feature plagiarized or auto-generated content. They create link farms to promote affiliates, and are motivated by the profitability of hosting ads. Splogs infiltrate the...
Strategies and Heuristics Used by the UMBCTAC Agent in the third Trading Agent Competition ∗ (2008)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding, Rong Pan
The UMBCTAC agent was one of the top ranked agents in the third international Trading Agent Competition (TAC’02). This paper describes and evaluates the key heuristics used by UMBCTAC, including...
Conflict of Interest • Should Arpinar review Verma’s paper? (2008)
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
• Situation(s) that may bias a decision • Why it is important to detect COI? – for transparency in circumstances such as contract allocation, IPOs, corporate law, and peer-review of scientific...
Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Zhongli Ding, Sasikanth Avancha, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The Semantic Web is well recognized as an effective infrastructure to enhance visibility of knowledge on the Web. The core of the Semantic Web is ontology, which is used to explicitly represent our...
Intelligent Ad hoc Marketing within Hotspot Networks (2008)
Olga Ratsimor, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Olga Ratsimor, ...
In recent years, the growth of Mobile Computing, Electronic Commerce and Mobile Electronic Commerce has created a new concept of Mobile Electronic Marketing. New marketing models are being explored...
The Effect of Perceptual Structure on Multimodal Speech Recognition Interfaces (2008)
Michael A. Grasso, Ph. D, David Ebert, Ph. D, Tim Finin, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
Muhammad Rabi, Tim Finin, Alan Sherman, Yannis Labrou
Despite the security and privacy concerns that agents could encounter whenever they cross multiple administrative domains, the agent communication languages standards lack the necessary constructs...
ITTALKS: A Case Study in the SemanticWeb and DAML (2008)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
The Effect of Perceptual Structure on Multimodal Speech Recognition Interfaces (2008)
Michael A. Grasso, Ph. D, David Ebert, Ph. D, Tim Finin, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
Semantic Web Challenge Chairs (2008)
Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal, Daniel Olmedilla, Gold Sponsor, Silver Sponsor, Karl Aberer (epfl, ...
We would like to express our special thanks to all sponsors
Report on the Models of Trust for the Web Workshop (MTW’06) (2008)
We live in a time when millions of people are adding information to the Web through a growing collection of tools and platforms. Ordinary citizens publish all kinds of content on Web pages, blogs,...
TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities 1 (2008)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan
framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi-agent environment based on FIPA compliant systems. TAGA uses the semantic web...
Mobile Agents Can Benefit From Standards Efforts (2008)
On Interagent Communication, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
On the road for the future success of mobile agents, we believe that inter-agent communication is an issue that has not been adequately addressed by the mobile agents community. Supplementing mobile...
Phillip Lord, Nigam Shah, Philip E. Bourne, Matt Cockerill, Biomed Central, Mike Bada, ...
The Bio-Ontologies Meeting has existed as a Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB for more than a decade, making it one of the longest running SIG meetings. The Bio-Ontologies SIG meeting has...
Tim Finin, Don Mckay, Rich Fritzson
We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent...
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts
Towards a standard for an Agent Communication Language (2007)
We discuss the problems of providing semantics for an Agent Communication Language standard and we briefly introduce an approach we have used to describe the semantics of the Agent Communication...
A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages (2007)
. One of the essential features of a software agent is its ability to cooperate with other software agents. This cooperation requires, in general, that software agents be able to communicate in an...
Muhammad Rabi, Tim Finin, Alan Sherman, Yannis Labrou
Despite the security and privacy concerns that agents could encounter whenever they cross multiple administrative domains, the agent communication languages standards lack the necessary constructs...
Towards a standard for an Agent Communication Language (2007)
We discuss the problems of providing semantics for an Agent Communication Language standard and we briefly introduce an approach we have used to describe the semantics of the Agent Communication...
Numi: A Framework for Collaborative Data Management in a Network of InfoStations (2007)
Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Olga Ratsimor, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
A network of infostations offering high bandwidth islands of data connectivity has often been suggested as a viable alternative to cellular WAN for providing network connectivity for mobile devices....
ITtalks: A Case Study in the Semantic Web (2007)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
languages will improve the automated gathering and processing of information and help integrate multiagent systems with the existing information infrastructure. In this article, the authors describe...
A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Language (2007)
Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu
One of the essential features of a software agent is its ability to cooperate with other software agents. This cooperation requires, in general, that software agents be able to communicate in a...
TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities 1 (2007)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan
Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multiagent systems environment of FIPA...
ABSTRACT Sidekick: A Personal agent for the semantic web ∗ (2007)
Subhash Kumar, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Mithun Sheshagiri
The Semantic Web is a vision to simplify and improve knowledge reuse on the Web. It is all set to alter the way humans benefit from the web from active interaction to somewhat passive utilization...
1 The Effect of Perceptual Structure on Multimodal Speech Recognition Interfaces (2007)
Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
Strategies and Heuristics Used by the UMBCTAC Agent in the third Trading Agent Competition ∗ (2007)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding, Rong Pan
The UMBCTAC agent was one of the top ranked agents in the third international Trading Agent Competition (TAC’02). This paper describes and evaluates the key heuristics used by UMBCTAC, including...
Preventing False Inferences (2007)
Available From, Tim Finin, David Silverman, Kathleen F. Mccoy, Ralph Weischedel, Aravind Joshi, ...
Reports are The practical application of frame-based knowledge-based systems, such as in expert systems, requires the maintenance of potentially very large amounts of declarative knowledge stored in...
TAGA: Using Semantic Web Technologies in Multi-Agent Systems (2007)
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen
Abstract. Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi agent environment based...
The Role of the Semantic Web in Pervasive Context-Aware Systems ⋆ (2007)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
Abstract. This paper describes an ontology expressed in OWL for supporting agent based context-aware systems in a pervasive computing environment. Defining an explicit representation of the ontology...
Information agents for mobile and embedded devices (2007)
Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen
Abstract. The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices....
1 Introduction Moving from Security to Distributed Trust in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2007)
Lalana Kagal, Anupam Joshi, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Filip Perich, Tim Finin
finin @ cs.umbc.edu Traditionally, stand-alone computers and small networks rely on user authentication and access control to provide security. These physical methods use system-based controls to...
Agents making sense of the Semantic Web (2007)
Lalana Kagal, Filip Perich, Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of available information and services on the Internet will require multi-agent systems to be tightly integrated with existing web infrastructure. This...
Abstract Modeling Agent Conversations with Colored Petri Nets (2007)
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversationbased approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses. Finite...
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboro
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Information agents for mobile and embedded devices (2007)
Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen
Abstract. The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices....
1.4 Modeling Conversation Protocols with Colored PetriNets... 6 (2007)
Vi Preface, R. Scott Cost, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Herecome the golden words.
An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment (2007)
Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost
A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...
An Agent System for Application Initialization in an (2007)
Integrated Manufacturing Environment, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, ...
A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...
Mobile Agents Can Benefit From Standards Efforts (2007)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
On the road for the future success of mobile agents, we believe that inter-agent communication is an issue that has not been adequately addressed by the mobile agents community. Supplementing mobile...
Modeling trust and influence in the blogosphere using link polarity (2007)
Anubhav Kale, Amit Kar, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
There is a growing interest in social network analysis to explore how communities and individuals spread influence. We describe techniques to find "like minded " blogs based on...
RDF123: a mechanism to transform spreadsheets to RDF (2007)
Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Cynthia Parr, Joel Sachs, Anupam Joshi
We describe RDF123, a highly flexible open-source tool for transforming spreadsheet data to RDF. Existing spreadsheet-to-rdf tools typically map only to star-shaped RDF graphs, i.e. each spreadsheet...
Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions (2007)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Tim Oates
As the Blogosphere continues to grow, finding good quality feeds is becoming increasingly difficult. In this paper we present an analysis of the feeds subscribed by a set of publicly listed Bloglines...
On the structure, properties and utility of internal corporate blogs (2007)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Kelly Lyons, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha, Stephen Perelgut, ...
Weblogs, or blogs are radically changing the face of communication within enterprises. While at the minimum blogs empower employees to publicly voice opinion and share expertise, collectively they...
Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web (2006)
Abstract. Semantic Web languages are being used to represent, encode and exchange semantic data in many contexts beyond the Web – in databases, multiagent systems, mobile computing, and ad hoc...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records (2006)
Sheetal Agarwal, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
We describe a prototype system to capture and interpret data in a perioperative environment in order to construct an Electronic Medical Encounter Record (EMR). The EMR records and correlates...
Detecting Spam blogs: A machine learning approach (2006)
Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, Anupam Joshi
Weblogs or blogs are an important new way to publish information, engage in discussions, and form communities on the Internet. The Blogosphere has unfortunately been infected by several varieties of...
BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff (2006)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau, James Mayfield
Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with...
Toward distributed service discovery in pervasive computing environments (2006)
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Senior Member, Yelena Yesha, Senior Member, Tim Finin
Abstract—The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and...
Text understanding agents and the Semantic Web (2006)
Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Sergei Nirenburg
Abstract — We discuss the challenges involved in adapting the OntoSem natural language processing system to the Web. One set of tasks involves processing Web documents, translating their computed...
BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff (2006)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau, James Mayfield
Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access (2006)
Dissertation Dr, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Li Ding
The Semantic Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1998 as a web of data for machine consumption. Its applicability in supporting real world applications on the World Wide Web, however, remains...
Toward distributed service discovery in pervasive computing environments (2006)
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Tim Finin
The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based...
A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future (2006)
Sheetal Agarwal, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
We describe a prototype Context Aware Perioperative Information System to capture and interpret data in an operating room of the future. The captured data is used to construct the context of the...
Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge (2006)
Web search engines like Google have made people “smarter ” by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever they need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate opinions....
Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification (2006)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau
Spam blogs or Splogs are blogs with either auto-generated or plagiarized content created for the sole purpose of hosting ads, promoting affiliate sites and getting new pages indexed. Splogs now rival...
Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2006)
Enrico Rukzio, Massimo Paolucci, Tim Finin, Paul Wisner, Terry Payne (eds, Enrico Rukzio, ...
We accepted 13 papers that will be presented within the workshop. We would like to thank the authors for their contributions and the organizers of MobileHCI 2006 for hosting MIRW 2006. Furthermore we...
Search on the semantic web (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, Pavan Reddivari
The Semantic Web provides a way to encode information and knowledge on web pages in a form that is easier for computers to understand and process. This article discusses the issues underlying the...
Enhancing web privacy protection through declarative policies (2005)
Pranam Kolari, Li Ding, Shashidhara G, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a W3C framework for web privacy management. It provides a standard vocabulary that websites can use to describe their privacy practices. The presence of...
Search on the semantic web (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, Pavan Reddivari, ...
The Semantic Web provides a way to encode information and knowledge on web pages in a form that is easier for computers to understand and process. This article discusses the issues underlying the...
On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: (2005)
Provenance And Trust, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
This paper focuses on one type of semantic association which is a simple path linking two RDF nodes in an given RDF graph, e.g. Mr. X Company A# Organization B, Osama Bin Laden
Tracking RDF Graph Provenance using RDF Molecules (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yun Peng, Deborah L
Abstract. The Semantic Web can be viewed as one large “universal” RDF graph distributed across many Web pages. This is an impractical for many reasons, so we usually work with a decomposition...
Search on the semantic web (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, Pavan Reddivari
The Semantic Web provides a way to encode information and knowledge on web pages in a form that is easier for computers to understand and process. This article discusses the issues underlying the...
Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations (2005)
Abstract. We describe our preliminary work in modeling conversation specifications and policies as positive/negative permissions and obligations. Our model is generic as it is independent of the...
Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations (2005)
Abstract. We describe our preliminary work in modeling conversation specifications and policies as positive/negative permissions and obligations. Our model is generic as it is independent of the...
Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Tim Finin, Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, ...
Most knowledge on the Web is encoded as natural language text, which is convenient for human users but very difficult for software agents to understand. Even with increased use of XML-encoded...
The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing (2005)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
Abstract. This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new...
A.: Analyzing Social Networks on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of social information published in RDF documents. Our investigations [1, 2] show that the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) ontology [3] is among the...
How the Semantic Web is Being Used: An Analysis of FOAF Documents (2005)
Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
Abstract — Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle helps software agents and knowledge engineers find Semantic Web knowledge encoded in RDF and OWL documents on the Web. Navigating such a Semantic Web on the Web is difficult due to...
Collaborative Joins in a Pervasive Computing Environment (2005)
Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Tim Finin
Locating and obtaining context sensitive information in a mobile environment has always been a challenge. This is especially true for pervasive computing environments where in addition to limited...
A.: Analyzing Social Networks on the Semantic Web (2005)
The Semantic Web promised to enable a new generation of intelligent applications by providing programs and software agents with rich and effective ways to share information and knowledge. The...
On homeland security and the semantic web: A provenance and trust aware inference framework (2005)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Yelena Yesha
Discovering and evaluating interesting patterns and semantic associations in vast amount of information provided by many different sources is an important and time-consuming work for homeland...
Tracking RDF Graph Provenance using RDF Molecules (2005)
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yun Peng, Deborah L
Abstract. The Semantic Web facilitates integrating partial knowledge and finding evidence for hypothesis from web knowledge sources. However, the appropriate level of granularity for tracking...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle is a system that helps knowledge engineers and software agents find knowledge on the web encoded in the semantic web languages RDF and OWL. Based on the search mechanisms provided...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle is a system that helps knowledge engineers and software agents find knowledge on the web encoded in the semantic web languages RDF and OWL. Based on the search mechanisms provided...
Semantic Web in the Context Broker Architecture (2004)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
This document describes a new architecture that exploits Semantic Web technologies for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. This architecture called Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) differs...
Authorization and privacy for semantic web services (2004)
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
for security and privacy is paramount to the success of
Modeling and evaluating trust network inference (2004)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The growth in knowledge sharing enabled by the (Semantic) Web has made trust an increasingly critical issue. Based on explicit inter-agent trust relations, a trust network emerges on the (Semantic)...
Swoogle: A search and metadata engine for the semantic web (2004)
Tim Finin, Yun Peng, R. Scott, Cost Joel, Sachs Anupam Joshi, Pavan Reddivari, ...
Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web documents – i.e., RDF or OWL documents. It analyzes the documents it discovered to compute useful metadata properties...
Authorization and privacy for semantic web services (2004)
Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin, Katia Sycara
In this paper we address security of semantic Web services that are declaratively described in OWL-S. We propose ontologies to annotate OWL-S input and output parameters with respect to their...
Knowledge query and manipulation language (kqml (2004)
This paper describes the design of and experimentation with
SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications (2004)
Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
We describe a shared ontology called SOUPA -- Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications. SOUPA is designed to model and support pervasive computing applications. This ontology is...
Intelligent agents meet semantic web in a smart meeting room (2004)
Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
We describe a new smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting that explores the use of FIPA agent technologies, Semantic Web ontologies, logic reasoning, and security and privacy policies. Building...
Enhancing P3P Framework through Policies and Trust (2004)
Pranam Kolari, Li Ding, Lalana Kagal, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
Abstract. The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a W3C standard that websites can use to describe their privacy practices. The presence of P3P policies enable users to configure web browsers...
A Pervasive Computing Ontology for User Privacy Protection in the Context Broker Architecture (2004)
Harry Chen, Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Anupam Joshi
Abstract. Privacy protection is a key requirement for the future pervasive computing systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of a privacy protection framework that exploits the...
Topic: A Tool for Calculating the Result of Quantum Circuits (2004)
Advisor Dr, Tim Finin, Advisor Dr, Samuel Lomonaco
Technology. My primary research focus is in behavior and knowledge management through policy application in open distributed environments such as those enabled by semantic web and pervasive computing...
Using Peer-to-Peer Data Routing for Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks (2003)
Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Olga Ratsimor, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile routers that are self-organizing and completely decentralized with no requirements for dedicated infrastructure support. Wireless...
A policy language for a pervasive computing environment (2003)
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
In this paper we describe a policy language designed for pervasive computing applications that is based on deontic concepts and grounded in a semantic language. The pervasive computing environments...
An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
Ontologies are a key component for building open and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems in which agents and devices share contextual information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology...
Using Peer-to-Peer Data Routing for Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks (2003)
Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Olga Ratsimor, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile routers that are self-organizing and completely decentralized with no requirements for dedicated infrastructure support. Wireless...
Sofitel Melbourne, Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin, Valentina Tamma, Steven Willmott (editors
There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies in agent systems as a means to facilitate interoperability among diverse software components, in particular, where interoperability is achieved...
An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
This document describes COBRA-ONT an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of ontologies for describing...
Using Peer-to-Peer Data Routing for Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks (2003)
Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Olga Ratsimor, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Computer Science, ...
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan
Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is the framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi agent environment based on FIPA...
eNcentive: A Framework for Intelligent Marketing in Mobile Peer-To-Peer Environments (2003)
Olga Ratsimor, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha
In recent years, the growth of Mobile Computing, Electronic Commerce and Mobile Electronic Commerce has created a new concept of Mobile Electronic Marketing. New marketing models are being developed...
An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
This document describes COBRA-ONT an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of ontologies for describing...
eNcentive: A Framework for Intelligent Marketing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Environments (2003)
Olga Ratsimor, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha
In recent years, the growth of Mobile Computing, Electronic Commerce and Mobile Electronic Commerce has created a new concept of Mobile Electronic Marketing. New marketing models are being developed...
A personal agent application for the semantic web (2002)
Subhash Kumar, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
The Semantic Web is a vision to simplify and improve knowledge reuse on the Web. It is all set to alter the way humans benefit from the web from active interaction to somewhat passive utilization...
A personal agent application for the semantic web (2002)
Subhash Kumar, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
The Semantic Web is a vision to simplify and improve knowledge reuse on the Web. It is all set to alter the way humans benefit from the web from active interaction to somewhat passive utilization...
A Tool For Mapping Concepts Between Two Ontologies (2002)
Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng, Tim Finin
We describe ongoing work which combines the recently emerging semantic markup language DAML+OIL (for ontology specification), the text-based classification technology (for similarity information...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Harry Chen, ...
Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “semantic web” markup languages such as the DARPA Agents Markup Language (DAML). Such languages...
A personal agent application for the semantic web (2002)
Subhash Kumar, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
The Semantic Web is a vision to simplify and improve knowledge reuse on the Web. It is all set to alter the way humans benefit from the web from active interaction to somewhat passive utilization...
Olga Ratsimor, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile routers that are self-organizing and completely decentralized with no requirements for dedicated infrastructure support. However, such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web (2002)
We describe an approach for information retrieval over documents that consist of both free text and semantically enriched markup. In particular, we present the design and implementation prototype of...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
A Tool For Mapping Concepts Between Two Ontologies (2002)
Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng, Tim Finin
We describe ongoing work which combines the recently emerging semantic markup language DAML+OIL (for ontology specification), the text-based classification technology (for similarity information...
GSD: A novel group-based service discovery protocol for MANETS (2002)
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Tim Finin
Abstract — This paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. The protocol is based on the concept of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of "Semantic Web " markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language...
Agents, trust, and information access on the semantic web (2002)
Information systems are becoming increasingly important and ubiquitous in our lives-- for organizations, professionals, individuals and families. The process began with large centralized computers...
Agents, trust, and information access on the semantic web (2002)
Information systems are becoming increasingly important and ubiquitous in our lives-- for organizations, professionals, individuals and families. The process began with large centralized computers...
Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web (2002)
We describe an approach for information retrieval over documents that consist of both free text and semantically enriched markup. In particular, we present the design and implementation prototype of...
GSD: A novel group-based service discovery protocol for MANETS (2002)
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, Tim Finin
Abstract — This paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. The protocol is based on the concept of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and...
A personal agent application for the semantic web (2002)
Subhash Kumar, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
The Semantic Web is a vision to simplify and improve knowledge reuse on the Web. It is all set to alter the way humans benefit from the web from active interaction to somewhat passive utilization...
Vigil : Providing trust for enhanced security in pervasive systems (2001)
Lalana Kagal, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Computing today is moving away from the desktop, becoming diffused into our surroundings and onto our personal digital devices. Moreover, ad-hoc networks such as Bluetooth provide for spontaneous...
ITTALKS: An application of agents in the semantic web (2001)
Filip Perich, Lalana Kagal, Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Service discovery in the future electronic market (2000)
Harry Chen, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Liang Xu, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
The trend the electronic market is taking, aided by the concommitant development of mobile devices suggest a major change from the way electronic commerce is done today. The increased use of PDAs,...
Service discovery in the future electronic market (2000)
Harry Chen, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Liang Xu, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
The trend the electronic market is taking, aided by the concommitant development of mobile devices suggest a major change from the way electronic commerce is done today. The increased use of PDAs,...
Yahoo! as an ontology: using Yahoo! categories to describe documents (1999)
We suggest that one (or a collection) of names of Yahoo! (or any other WWW indexer’s) categories can be used to describe the content of a document. Such categories offer a standardized and...
Modeling agent conversations with colored petri nets (1999)
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses. Finite...
Experiments on using Yahoo! categories to describe documents (1999)
We suggest that one (or a collection) of names of Yahoo! (or any other WWW indexer’s) categories can be used to describe the content of a document. Such categories offer a standardized and...
Experiments on using Yahoo! categories to describe documents (1999)
We suggest that one (or a collection) of names of Yahoo! (or any other WWW indexer's) categories can be used to describe the content of a document. Such categories offer a standardized and...
Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape (1999)
Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
this article--- suggest a paradigm for software development that emphasizes autonomy both at design time and runtime, adaptivity, and cooperation. This approach seems appealing in a world of...
Negotiating Agents for Supply Chain Management (1999)
Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Scott Cost
Introduction A supply chain is a network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers, through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, produced and delivered to the...
Yahoo! as an Ontology - Using Yahoo! Categories to Describe Documents (1999)
We suggest that one (or a collection) of names of Yahoo! (or any other WWW indexer's) categories can be used to describe the content of a document. Such categories offer a standardized and...
A negotiation-based Multi-agent System for Supply Chain Management (1999)
Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Bill Chu, Jian Yao, ...
This paper describes an ongoing effort in developing a Multiagent System (MAS) for supply chain management. In our framework, functional agents can join in, stay, or leave the system. The Supply...
An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment (1999)
Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, Scott Cost, ...
A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...
Modeling Agent Conversations with Colored Petri Nets (1999)
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicativeinteractions among agents. The value of a conversationbased approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses. Finite...
An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration (1999)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages (1999)
Yannis Labrou Tim, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
Despite the substantial number of multi-agent systems that use an Agent Communication Language (ACL) the dust has not settled yet over the landscape of ACLs. The semantic specification issues have...
The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages (1999)
Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
Despite the substantial number of multi-agent systems that use an Agent Communication Language (ACL) the dust has not settled yet over the landscape of ACLs. The semantic specification issues have...
Experiments on using Yahoo categories to describe documents (1999)
We suggest that one (or a collection) of names of Yahoo! (or any other WWW indexer's) categories can be used to describe the content of a document. Such categories offer a standardized and...
An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration (1999)
Scott Cost Tim, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
Interoperability is a central issue for both the mobile agents community and the wider agents community. Unfortunately, the interoperability concerns are different between the two communities. As a...
An Agent-Based Approach for Manufacturing Integration - The CIIMPLEX Experience (1999)
Yun Peng, Y. Peng, Tim Finin, Bill Chu, Y. Labrou, R. S. Cost, ...
The production management system used by most manufacturers today is comprised of disconnected planning and execution processes, and lacks the support for interoperability and collaboration needed...
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling (1999)
Scott Cost Ye, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicativeinteractions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational model it uses.
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) is a language of typed messages, usually understood as speech-acts, encoded as ASCII strings (in a LISP-like syntax), that are transported over TCP/IP...
The integrality of speech in multimodal interfaces (1998)
Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
The integrality of speech in multimodal interfaces (1998)
Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, Ph. D
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface...
Jackal: A JAVA-based tool for agent development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboro
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Supporting human interactions within integrated manufacturing systems (1998)
William J. Tolone, Bei-tseng Chu, Junsheng Long, Robert Wilhelm, Tim Finin, Yun Peng
Application integration is a focus of many major research initiatives. A driving force behind application integration is a desire for enterprise-wide integration of organizational business processes....
Jackal: A JAVA-based tool for agent development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Mobile Agents Can Benefit From Standards Efforts on Interagent Communication (1998)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
On the road for the future success of mobile agents, we believe that inter-agent communication is an issue that has not been adequately addressed by the mobile agents community. Supplementing mobile...
Towards Intelligent Integrated Manufacturing Planning-Execution (1998)
Bill Chu, B. Chu, J. Long, W. Tolone, W. J. Tolone, R. Willhelm, ...
In today's competitive global market place, agility has become a survival factor for many manufacturers. A key measurement of manufacturing agility is the time it takes an organization to...
Personal Security Agent: KQML-Based PKI (1998)
Qi He, Katia Sycara, Tim Finin
Certificate management infrastructure, a.k.a. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which issues and provides access to public key certificates to preserve the integrity of a public key, is fundamental...
Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Project: A Tool for Calculating the Result of Quantum Circuits (1998)
Advisor Dr, Tim Finin, Advisor Dr, Samuel Lomonaco
Programming Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, and Prolog.
Semantics and conversations for an agent communication language (1997)
We address the issues of semantics and conversations for agent communication languages and the Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) in particular. Based on ideas from speech act theory, we...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller
Abstract. Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboro, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Abstract. Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboro, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
In the past few years, the explosive growth of the Internet has allowed the construction of "virtual" systems containing hundreds or thousands of individual, relatively inexpensive...
Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language (1997)
We address the issues of semantics and conversations for agent communication languages and the Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) in particular. Based on ideas from speech act theory, we...
Task integration in multimodal speech recognition environments (1997)
The benefits of speech-driven user interfaces have been advocated for several years. Speech is a natural form of communication that is pervasive, efficient, and can be used at a distance. However,...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Jeegar Lakhani, ...
In the past few years, the explosive growth of the Internet has allowed the construction of "virtual" systems containing hundreds or thousands of individual, relatively inexpensive...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboro, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
lications into a distributed framework, using KQML as a communication language. Tcl's embeddable nature allows one to easily add agent communication facilities to existing code. As such, TKQML...
TKQML: A KQML Extension to Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboro, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
. Tcl#Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to...
A Proposal for a new KQML Specification (1997)
Yannis Labrou, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Tim Finin
We propose a new specification for the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language #KQML#. KQML is a language for the communication between software agents. KQML offers a variety of message types...
Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection (1997)
Michael Grasso Ph, Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, ...
this paper is to review the application of speech in biomedical interfaces, discuss acceptance issues, and summarize a study of perceptual structure on a multimodal speech interface.
A Proposal for a new KQML Specification (1997)
Yannis Labrou, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Tim Finin
We propose a new specification for the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML). KQML is a language for the communication between software agents. KQML offers a variety of message types...
Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection (1997)
Michael Grasso Ph, Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, ...
this paper is to review the application of speech in biomedical interfaces, discuss acceptance issues, and summarize a study of perceptual structure on a multimodal speech interface.
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
pplications into a distributed framework, using KQML as a communication language. Tcl's embeddable nature allows one to easily add agent communication facilities to existing code. As such, TKQML...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboeroff
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection (1997)
Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, Ph. D
Speech interfaces have the potential to address the data entry bottleneck of many applications in the field of medical informatics. An experimental study evaluated the effect of perceptual structure...
Task integration in multimodal speech recognition environments (1997)
The benefits of speech-driven user interfaces have been advocated for several years. Speech is a natural form of communication that is pervasive, efficient, and can be used at a distance. However,...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas, ...
In the past few years, the explosive growth of the Internet has allowed the construction of "virtual" systems containing hundreds or thousands of individual, relatively inexpensive...
Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection (1997)
Michael A. Grasso, David Ebert, Tim Finin, Ph. D, Ph. D, Ph. D
Speech interfaces have the potential to address the data entry bottleneck of many applications in the field of medical informatics. An experimental study evaluated the effect of perceptual structure...
Task integration in multimodal speech recognition environments (1997)
The benefits of speech-driven user interfaces have been advocated for several years. Speech is a natural form of communication that is pervasive, efficient, and can be used at a distance. However,...
Evaluating KQML as an Agent Communication Language (1996)
James May, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
Abstract. This chapterdiscussesthedesirable featuresoflanguagesandprotocolsfor communicationamongintelligentinformationagents.These desiderata...
Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language (1996)
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
. This chapter discusses the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata...
An Architecture for Information Agents (1996)
Donald Mckay, Jon Pastor, Robin Mcentire, Tim Finin
Information agents include a significant class of applications which mediate information structures of domain objects to instance representations in a storage manager. Over the past several years, we...
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language (1996)
. We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) is investigated. KQML is a language and protocol...
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language (1996)
Yannis Labrou And, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language.
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language (1996)
Yannis Labrou (contact, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Tim Finin
We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language #KQML# is investigated. KQML is a language and protocol to...
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language (1996)
Yannis Labrou (contact, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Tim Finin
. We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) is investigated. KQML is a language and protocol...
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language (1996)
. We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) is investigated. KQML is a language and protocol...
On agent domains, agent names and proxy agents (1995)
Tim Finin, Anupama Potluri, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Don Mckay, Robin Mcentire
We consider the problem of how agents should be named and what kind of software infrastructure is necessary in order to locate an agent given only its name. We assume an agent environment which (1)...
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages (1995)
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
This paper offers some opinions on the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata are divided into seven categories: form,...
The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together (1995)
James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Rajkumar Narayanswamy, Chetan Shah, William MacCarthy, Keith Goolsbey
We describe the initial results of a project aimed at adapting the Cyc system for use in an agent architecture. Two Cyc systems that share a large common core of knowledge but differ in additional...
Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems (1995)
James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Marty Hall
Memo functions and memoization are well known concepts in AI programming. They have been around since the sixties and are often used as examples in introductory programming texts. However, the...
Secret Agents -- A Security Architecture for KQML (1995)
Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu Enterprise, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin, James Mayfield
KQML is a message protocol and format for software agents to communicate with each other. In this paper we discuss the security features that a KQML user would expect and an architecture to satisfy...
Secret Agents -- A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language (1995)
Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu Enterprise, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin, James Mayfield
KQML is a message protocol and format for software agents to communicate with each other. In this paper we discuss the security features that a KQML user would expect and an architecture to satisfy...
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages (1995)
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
This paper o#ers some opinions on the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents.
KQML as an agent communication language (1995)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, James Mayfield
One of the defining characteristics of an information agent is its ability for flexible interaction and interoperation with other, similar software agents. This focus on interoperability has been the...
Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for KQML (1995)
Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin, James Mayfield
KQML is a message protocol and format for software agents to communicate with each other. In this paper we discuss the security features that a KQML user would expect and an architecture to satisfy...
Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language (1995)
Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin, James Mayfield
KQML is a message protocol and format for software agents to communicate with each other. In this paper we discuss the security features that a KQML user would expect and an architecture to satisfy...
KQML as an agent communication language (1995)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, James Mayfield
One of the defining characteristics of an information agent is its ability for flexible interaction and interoperation with other, similar software agents. This focus on interoperability has been the...
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages (1995)
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin
This paper offers some opinions on the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication between intelligent information agents. These desiderata are divided into seven categories:...
The Cycic Friends Network: Getting Cyc agents to reason together (1995)
James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Rajkumar Narayanaswamy, Chetan Shah, William Maccartney, Keith Goolsbey
We describe the initial results of a project aimed at adapting the Cyc system for use in an agent architecture. Two Cyc systems that share a large common core of knowledge but differ in additional...
On agent domains, agent names and proxy agents (1995)
Tim Finin, Anupama Potluri, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Don Mckay, Robin Mcentire
We consider the problem of how agents should be named and what kind of software infrastructure is necessary in order to locate an agent given only its name. We assume an agent environment which (1)...
KQML as an agent communication language (1994)
Abstract. We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) is investigated. KQML is a language and...
KQML as an agent communication language (1994)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, James May Eld
One of the de ning characteristics of an information agent is its ability for exible interaction and interoperation with other, similar software agents. This focus on interoperability has been the...
Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems (1994)
James Mayfield, Marty Hall, Tim Finin
Memo functions and memoization are well known concepts in AI programming. They have been discussed since the Sixties and are often used as examples in introductory programming texts. However, the...
KQML as an Agent Communication Language (1994)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, James Mayfield
This document and other information on the KRSS group is available as http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kse/krss/.
A semantics approach for KQML - a general purpose communication language for software agents (1994)
We investigate the semantics for Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) and we propose a semantic framework for the language. KQML is a language and a protocol to support communication between...
KQML as an Agent Communication Language (1994)
Tim Finin, Richard Fritzson, Don Mckay, Robin Mcentire
This paper describes the design of and experimentation with the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML), a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. This work is...
KQML as an agent communication language (1994)
Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, James Mayfield
One of the defining characteristics of an information agent is its ability for flexible interaction and interoperation with other, similar software agents. This focus on interoperability has been the...
Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language (1994)
Tim Finin, Jay Weber, Gio Wiederhold, Mike Genesereth, Rich Fritzson, Don McKay, ...
this document send a message to kqml-users@isi.edu) Tim Finin (co-chair) University of Maryland Jay Weber (co-chair) Enterprise Integration Technologies Gio Wiederhold (former co-chair) Stanford...
DRAFT Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language (1993)
Tim Finin, Jay Weber, Gio Wiederhold, Michael Genesereth, Richard Fritzson, Donald Mckay, ...
This document is a draft of an initial specification for the KQML agent communication language being developed by the external interfaces working group of the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort. KQML is...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report (1993)
Ramesh S. Patil, Richard E. Fikes, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, Thomas Gruber, ...
hat will enable researchers to develop new systems by selecting components from library of reusable modules and assembling them together. Their effort will be focused on creating specialized...
The KERNEL text understanding system (1993)
Martha Palmer, Martha Palmer, Carl Weir, Carl Weir, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Rebecca J. Passonneau, ...
This article describes KERNEL, a text understanding system developed at the Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology. KERNEL's design is motivated by the need to make complex...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing E ort: Progress report (1992)
Ramesh S. Patil, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, Richard E. Fikes, Thomas Gruber
Building knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing a new knowledge base from scratch. Even if several groups of researchers are working in the same general area, such as medicine or...
The KERNEL Text Understanding System (1992)
Martha Palmer, Martha Palmer, Carl Weir, Carl Weir, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Rebecca J. Passonneau, ...
This article describes KERNEL, a text understanding system developed at the Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology. KERNEL's design is motivated by the need to make complex...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report (1992)
Ramesh Patil Usc, Ramesh S. Patil, Richard E. Fikes, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, ...
hat will enable researchers to develop new systems by selecting components from library of reusable modules and assembling them together. Their effort will be focused on creating specialized...
An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (1992)
Hans Chalupsky, Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson, Don Mckay, Stu Shapiro, Gio Wiederhold
We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report (1992)
Ramesh Patil, Richard E. Fikes, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, Thomas Gruber, ...
nable researchers to develop new systems by selecting components from library of reusable modules and assembling them together. Their effort will be focused on creating specialized knowledge and...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report (1992)
Ramesh Patil, Richard E. Fikes, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, Thomas Gruber, ...
nable researchers to develop new systems by selecting components from library of reusable modules and assembling them together. Their effort will be focused on creating specialized knowledge and...
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing E ort: Progress report (1992)
Ramesh S. Patil, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, Richard E. Fikes, Thomas Gruber
Building knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing a new knowledge base from scratch. Even if several groups of researchers are working in the same general area, such as medicine or...
Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems (1990)
In the past few years, the computational linguistics research community has begun to wrestle with the problem of how toevaluate its progress in developing natural language processing systems. With...
Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems (1990)
In the past few years, the computational linguistics research community has begun to wrestle with the problem of how to evaluate its progress in developing natural language processing systems. With...
Shimon Schocken, Leonard N. Stern, Tim Finin, Unisys Corporation, The Thank The
One of the key challenges in designing expert systems is a credible represen-tation of uncertainty and partial belief. During the past deca.de, a number of rule-based belief languages were proposed...
Modeling the user in natural language systems (1988)
For intelligent interactive systems to communicate with humans in a natural manner, they must have knowledge about the system users. This paper explores the role of user modeling in such systems. It...
GUMS1: A General User Modeling System (1986)
This paper describes a general architecture of a domain independent system for building and maintaining ling term models of individual users..The user modeling system is intended Io provide a well...
GUMS1: A General User Modeling System (1986)
This paper describes a general architecture of a domain independent system for building and maintaining ling term models of individual users..The user modeling system is intended Io provide a well...
Lessons from shade and pact. In C. Petrie, editor, Enterprise (1980)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Jon Pastor, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, R. Patil, ...
communication and control in a distributed problem solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-29(12):1104--1113,
Lessons from shade and pact. In C. Petrie, editor, Enterprise (1980)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Jon Pastor, Don Mckay, Tim Finin, R. Patil, ...
communication and control in a distributed problem solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-29(12):1104--1113,
An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
Kqml Advisory Group, Hans Chalupsky, Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson, Don Mckay, Gio Wiederhold Y
We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent...
Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems
James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Marty Hall
Memo functions and memoization are well--known concepts in AI programming. They have been discussed since the Sixties and are often used as examples in introductory programming texts. However, the...
An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
Kqml Advisory Group, Tim Finin, Don Mckay, Rich Fritzson
We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent...
An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
Kqml Advisory, Tim Finin, Don Mckay, Rich Fritzson
We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent...
Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems
James Mayfield, Marty Hall, Tim Finin
Memo functions and memoization are well known concepts in AI programming. They have been discussed since the Sixties and are often used as examples in introductory programming texts. However, the...