Intelligent Software Agents: Definitions and Applications David Wallace Croft Senior Intelligent Systems Engineer Special Projects Division, Information TechnologyAnalytic Services, Inc. (ANSER)croftd@nexos.anser.org Definition: Agent Agent: One that is authorized to act for another. Delegacy: Discretionary authority to autonomously act on behalf of the client. Competency: The capability to effectively manipulate the problem domain environment to accomplish the prerequisite tasks. Amenability: The ability to adapt behavior to optimize performance in an often non-stationary environment in responsive pursuit of the goals of the client. Examples of human agents include booking agents, sales agents, and politicians. Definition: Software Agent Software Agent: An artificial agent which operates in a software environment. Software environments include operating systems, computer applications, databases, networks, and virtual domains. Delegacy for software agents centers on persistence. Definition: Intelligent Software Agent Agent Variants Applications Back
Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer and public speaker. He has written and lectured about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory.[1] In 1998 he founded the Integral Institute.[2] Biography[edit] Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City. In 1973 Wilber completed his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness,[5] in which he sought to integrate knowledge from disparate fields. In 1982 New Science Library published his anthology The Holographic Paradigm and other Paradoxes[6] a collection of essays and interviews, including one by David Bohm. In 1983 Wilber married Terry "Treya" Killam who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with breast cancer. Subsequently, Wilber wrote Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (SES), (1995), the first volume of his Kosmos Trilogy. Theory[edit] Holons[edit] Quadrants[edit] AQAL: "All Quadrants All Levels"[edit] Levels or stages[edit]
ReVerb - Open Information Extraction Software Open Mind Common Sense Software agent In computer science, a software agent is a computer program that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency, which derives from the Latin agere (to do): an agreement to act on one's behalf. Such "action on behalf of" implies the authority to decide which, if any, action is appropriate.[1][2] Related and derived concepts include intelligent agents (in particular exhibiting some aspect of artificial intelligence, such as learning and reasoning), autonomous agents (capable of modifying the way in which they achieve their objectives), distributed agents (being executed on physically distinct computers), multi-agent systems (distributed agents that do not have the capabilities to achieve an objective alone and thus must communicate), and mobile agents (agents that can relocate their execution onto different processors). Concepts[edit] The basic attributes of a software agent are that agents Nwana's Category of Software Agent Distinguishing agents from programs[edit]
Causality Experts tdwg-rdf - TDWG RDF/OWL Task Group Background The RDF/OWL Best Practices Task Group is part of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG; ). Its purpose is to adapt TDWG vocabularies for use as RDF classes and properties and to integrate those resources with other well-known vocabularies and ontologies outside TDWG for use in describing biodiversity resources. Group discussions are conducted via an email list hosted and archived at . Please visit that site to request an invitation to be added to the list. The issues tracker is set up to handle specific best-practices recommendations, missing terms, etc. Our charter was approved by the TDWG executive at the 2011 meeting in New Orleans. RDF Sandboxes/Development platforms The sandboxes are places to experiment with RDF. Two triple stores available here, one based on 4store, one based on AllegroGraph . Beginner's Guide to RDF Click here to go to the Introduction of the Guide
MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence Editor’s note: This is Part I of a three-part guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part II, he will describe how software and mobile technologies can augment and even replace doctors. In Part III, he will talk about how technology will sweep through education. Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease. Fifty years ago this spring, President Kennedy declared a space race, promising to land a man safely on the moon before the end of the decade. Though we made it to the moon the efforts in cancer and artificial intelligence have failed in their larger ambitions but have made progress. Rather than the brute force logic-based development that was envisioned with Commander Data, successful systems have been built from examples rather than logical rules. Where will these advances in computing lead us in the next decade?
Judea Pearl Judea Pearl (born 1936) is an Israeli-born American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). He is the 2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".[1][2][3][4] Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by militants in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his American and Jewish heritage.[5][6] Biography[edit] Pearl is currently a professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. Books[edit]