Software Agents
Papers from the AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium
Oren Etzioni, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-94-03. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Long Papers
An Open Agent Architecture / 1
Philip R Cohen and Adam Cheyer
Building Softbots for UNIX (Preliminary Report) / 9
Oren Etzioni Neal Lesh and Richard Segal
The First Law of Robotics (A Call to Arms) / 17
Oren Etzioni and Daniel Weld
KAoS: A Knowledge Agent-Oriented System / 24
Nicholas J.George, Robert J. Jasper, Monica Rosman LaFever, Katrina M. Morrison, Daniel B. Rosenthal, Stephen R. Tockey, and John D. Wooley
Omnipotence Without Omniscience: Efficient Sensor Management for Software Agents / 31
Keith Golden, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel Weld
A Learning Apprentice for Browsing / 37
Robert C. Holte and Chris Drummond
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents / 43
Henry A. Kautz Bart Selman, Michael Coen, and Stephen Ketchpel
An Architecture for Information Retrieval Agents / 49
Craig A Knoblock and Yigal Arens
A Data Analysis Assistant / 57
Amy L. Lansky
Towards Efficient Information Gathering Agents / 64
Alon Y Levy, Yehoshua Sagiv, and Divesh Srivastava
Social Interface Agents: Acquiring Competence by Learning from Users and other Agents / 71
Pattie Maes
Designing Structure-based Information Agents / 79
Daniela Rus and Devika Subramanian
Coalition, Cryptography, and Stability: Mechanisms for Coaltion Formation in Task Oriented Domains / 87
Gilad Zlotkin and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Short Papers
Automating Business Processes with Software Agents / 95
David L. Bailey
Trainable Software Agents / 99
Yolanda Gil
A Visual Agent for Performance Graphics / 103
Fred Lakin
Demonstrational Techniques for Instructible User Interface Agents / 107
Henry Lieberman
Mediation in the Knowledgeable Community / 110
Toyoaki Nishida, Hideaki Takeda, and Kenji Lino
Re-Membering: A Theory of Agents (Postion Paper) / 114
Doug Riecken
A Software Agent for Note Taking / 118
Jeffrey C. Schlimmer and Leonard A. Hermens
Software Agents for Automating Multiple-Tool Tasks / 122
Chris Toomey and Ray Johnson
Software Agents for Information Retrieval / 126
Ellen M. Voorhees
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