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  • Communicating and Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus 1/23/00 Who points to it? 42 - Communicating and Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus, Robin Milner, 176 pages, March 1,

  • Multiagent Systems : A Modern Approach to Distributed AI 12/1/99 Who points to it? 49 - Gerhard Weiss , 619 pages (June 1999)

  • Foundations of Rational Agency 12/1/99 Who points to it? 41 - by Michael Wooldridge (Editor), Anand Rao (Editor) . (April 1999)

  • Readings in Agents 12/1/99 Who points to it? 45 - The world of agents comprises a broad range of intelligent programs that perform specific tasks on behalf of their users. Agents are distinguished from other types of software by their status as independent entities capable of completing complex assignments without intervention, rather than as tools that must be manipulated by a user. Largely the province of speculation before the early 1990s, agent research has flourished since the advent of the Internet, which has created an ideal operating environment. This important collection unifies the extensive recent literature on agent technology, presenting a wealth of the finest published papers on both theory and applications. Huhns and Singh have drawn on research communities in AI, databases, distributed computing, and programming languages to assemble the most comprehensive overview of the agent world available. The editors add a summary of the field and its terminology, history, and major issues, together with introductions to each of the thematic chapters and discussions of the significance and context of the individual papers. Focuses on: applications of agents classical techniques for agent construction theory for modeling and understanding agents intellectual frontiers in agent science.

  • Agent Technology : Foundations, Applications, and Markets 12/1/99 Who points to it? 37 - Presents a coherent introduction to the basic technical issues, discusses future challenges, & reports on successes in designing & building agent applications; written by leading authorities in the field, giving a unique account of potential & actual applications in such areas as telecommunications systems.

  • Software Agents 1/6/00 Who points to it? 40 - Jeffrey Bradshaw editor

  • Multi-Agent Systems : An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence 1/6/00 Who points to it? 47 - Multi-Agent Systems : An Introduction to Distributed Artificial

  • Robot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind 1/6/00 Who points to it? 32 - Robot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

  • When Things Start to Think 1/6/00 Who points to it? 33 - When Things Start to Thinkby Neil A. Gershenfeld, 224 pages 1 Ed edition (January 1999)Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805058745.

  • Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence 1/6/00 Who points to it? 33 - by George B. Dyson , 304 pages (October 1998)

  • The Society of Mind 1/6/00 Who points to it? 35 - by Marvin L. Minsky , (March 1988)

  • Cambrian Intelligence : The Early History of the New Ai 1/6/00 Who points to it? 31 - by Rodney Allen Brooks, 225 pages (August 1999) , MIT Press, ISBN: 0262522632.Cambrian Intelligence, composed of eightpapers written by Brooks between 1985 and 1991, explores the technical and philosophical aspects ofbehavior-based robotics

  • Mobility : Processes, Computers, and Agents 1/6/00 Who points to it? 36 - by Dejan S. Milojicic, Frederick Douglis (Editor), Richard G. Wheeler, 704 pages (April 1999)Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201379287. "This book grew out of a survey paper on process migration. Afterspending considerable time and effort collecting and sorting severalhundred references for that work, we realized that we had almost enoughmaterial for a book. Since then, the scope of the book expanded toencompass broader issues in mobility. ..."

  • Intelligent Software Agents 1/13/00 Who points to it? 41 - Intelligent Software Agents

  • Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems : Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications 1/22/00 Who points to it? 35 - Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems : Exploring Architecture,

  • The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences 1/22/00 Who points to it? 33 - by Robert A. Wilson (Editor), Frank C. Keil (Editor), Robert Anton Wilson ,

  • How the Mind Works 1/22/00 Who points to it? 32 - How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker, 660 pages (January 1, 1999)

  • Mobile Agents and Security 1/23/00 Who points to it? 36 - Mobile Agents and Security (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1419), Giovanni Vigna (Editor), 257 pages (August 1998)

  • Database Nation 2/14/00 Who points to it? 33 - Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, by Simson Garfinkel, 350 pages (January 2000)

  • Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems 3/21/00 Who points to it? 31 - This book, "Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems:A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer,"looks at multiagent systems thatconsist of teams of autonomous agentsacting in real-time, noisy, collaborative,and adversarial environments.

  • Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology 3/25/00 Who points to it? 35 - Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology(Advances in Consciousness Research, V19) , Kerstin Dautenhahn (Ed), Nov 1999,John Benjamins Pub Co; ISBN: 1556194358. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at theforefront of agent research include: Narrative intelligence andimplementations of story-telling systems, socially situated avatars and'conscious' software agents, cognitive architectures for sociallyintelligent agents, agents with emotions, design issues for interactivesystems, artificial life agents, contributions to agent design fromartistic practice, and a Cognitive Technology view on living with sociallyintelligent agents.

  • Foundations of Knowledge Systems - with Applications to Databases and Agents 3/29/00 Who points to it? 34 - "Foundations of Knowledge Systems withApplications to Databases and Agents" coversboth basic and advanced topics. It may be usedas the textbook of a course offering a broadintroduction to databases and knowledge bases,or it may be used as an additional textbook ina course on databases or Artificial Intelligence.

  • Cooperation - A Philosophical Study 4/8/00 Who points to it? 31 - Cooperation - A Philosophical Study (PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES Volume 82), Raimo Tuomela, Feb 2000, ISBN: 0792362012. This philosophical work offers the first comprehensive philosophical

  • Jini in a Nutshell 4/9/00 Who points to it? 34 - ini in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference, Scott Oaks and Henry Wong, O'Reilly, ISBN: 1565927591 is a quick reference guide to developing services and clients using Jini.

  • The Robot in the Garden 4/21/00 Who points to it? 34 - The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Ageof the Internet (Leonardo Books)by Ken Goldberg (Editor), MIT Press; ISBN: 0262072033, March 2000, is a a collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, andengineers.

  • Reasoning About Rational Agents 7/1/00 Who points to it? 35 - "Reasoning about Rational Agents" by Michael Wooldridge. Published in

  • Heterogeneous Agent Systems 9/29/00 Who points to it? 32 - Heterogeneous Agent Systems

  • From Animals to Animats 6 1/24/01 Who points to it? 30 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

  • Beyond Human : New World of Cyborgs and Androids 2/24/01 Who points to it? 32 - A new book by science fiction writer and physics professor Gregory Benford

  • Evolutionary Robotics 3/4/01 Who points to it? 30 - Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology,

  • Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves 3/10/01 Who points to it? 31 - Sonja I. Yoerg, "Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves", Bloomsbury, ISBN: 158234115X

  • Safe and Sound: AI in Hazardous Applications 3/15/01 Who points to it? 33 - Safe and Sound: Artificial Intelligence in Hazardous Applications, John Fox and Subrata Das, Jointly published by AAAI and MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-06211-9. Text describes, from both practical and theoretical perspectives, an AI technology for supporting sound clinical decision making and safe patient management. Although the focus in on medicine, many of the ideas can be applied to AI systems in other hazardous settings.

  • A Course in Game Theory 3/17/01 Who points to it? 40 - A Course in Game Theory by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel

  • The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science 3/17/01 Who points to it? 36 - In The Algebraic Mind:IntegratingConnectionism andCognitive Science(Learning,Development, andConceptual Change),author Gary F. Marcus, attempts to integrate twotheories about how the mind works, one that says that the mindis a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that saysthat the mind is a large network of neurons working together inparallel.

  • Abduction, Reason and Science - Processes of Discovery and Explanation 3/17/01 Who points to it? 32 - In Abduction, Reason and Science - Processes of Discovery and

  • The Mechanization of the Mind 4/14/01 Who points to it? 39 - The Mechanization of the Mind, Jean Pierre Dupuy, M. B. Debevoise, December 2000, Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691025746. "A profound and beautifully written book, The Mechanization of the Mind bringsback to life the intellectual brilliance and excitement that attended the birth ofcognitive science more than fifty years ago, and recasts our understanding of thehistory of the twentieth century thought. "

  • Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies 5/19/01 Who points to it? 33 - Trust and Deception in Virtual

  • Thinks : A Novel 5/19/01 Who points to it? 32 - A humourous novel set in ficticious University of Gloucester in England, revolves around its center for cognitive science and the various characters stance on the subject of whether or not machines can be conscious.

  • Understanding Agent Systems 6/4/01 Who points to it? 37 - Understanding Agent Systems (Springer Series on Agent Technology), Mark D'Inverno and Michael Luck (Eds), SPringer, June 2001, ISBN: 3540419756.

  • Distributed Constraint Satisfaction : Foundations of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems 6/16/01 Who points to it? 31 - Yokoo, Etzioni, Ishida , and

  • Swarm Intelligence 7/8/01 Who points to it? 32 - Swarm Intelligence, James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, with Yuhui

  • Introduction to AI Robotics 7/8/01 Who points to it? 30 - An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous

  • Creative Evolutionary Systems 7/25/01 Who points to it? 33 - Creative Evolutionary Systems

  • The Computational Beauty of Nature 8/20/01 Who points to it? 32 - The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals,

  • Emergence : The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software 9/10/01 Who points to it? 31 - Emergence : The Connected Lives of

  • Ontologies : A Silver Bullet for KM and EC 9/12/01 Who points to it? 31 - Dieter Fensel, "Ontologies : A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce", Springer Verlag, ISBN: 3540416021, June 2001. "The author systematically introduces the notion of

  • Oxford Guide to the Mind 10/13/01 Who points to it? 54 - Oxford Guide to the Mind, Geoffrey Underwood (editor) (Oxford

  • Out of Control : The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World 10/14/01 Who points to it? 0 - "Out of Control : The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World" by Kevin Kelly (1995) is "an accessible and entertaining explanationof why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology-- particularly evolution and ethology -- and what this willmean to most every aspect of our society. "

  • Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments 11/1/01 Who points to it? 37 - Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments, Sarit Kraus, 280 pages, September 1, 2001),

  • Rumelhart Prize nominations sought 11/1/01 Who points to it? 28 - Nominations are sought for the third annual David E. Rumelhart Prizefor Contributions to the Formal Analysis Of Human Cognition.Nominations should be received by Friday, January 11, 2002.

  • Social dynamics 12/16/01 Who points to it? 32 - Social Dynamics (Economic Learning

  • Creation : Life and How to Make It 12/16/01 Who points to it? 34 - Creation : Life and How to Make It, Steve Grand, October 2001, Harvard Univ Press; ISBN: 0674006542. Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674006542. "Blending aspects of philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, biology andcomputer gaming, Grand attempts to define life, discuss the nature of the human souland demonstrate how it is possible to create entities that demand to be called both livingand intelligent. A tall order indeed, and to wonderful effect, Grand draws heavily on his experience writing computer code (he developed the popular computer game Creatures, e in which cyberbeings "live," learn and reproduce).

  • Dave Barry on slugbot 12/18/01 Who points to it? 0 - Dave Barry offers his own ideas inspired by the University of West England's slugbot.

  • Varieties of Practical Reasoning 1/7/02 Who points to it? 33 - Varieties of Practical Reasoning,

  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution 1/27/02 Who points to it? 33 - Mark D. Pagel (Editor), Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195122003 . From the

  • Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us 2/23/02 Who points to it? 31 - In Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us(Feb 02,

  • Introduction to MultiAgent Systems 2/24/02 Who points to it? 37 - Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, Michael Woolridge, (256 pages,

  • Designing Sociable Robots 3/9/02 Who points to it? 32 - Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature

  • Altruistically Inclined? 3/17/02 Who points to it? 32 - In Altruistically Inclined?: The

  • Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution 3/17/02 Who points to it? 30 - In Foundations of Language : Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution(Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0198270127, March 2002), Brandeis linguist Ray Jackendoff proposes

  • The Mind Doesn't Work That Way 3/23/02 Who points to it? 33 - Fodor explores the relationship among computational and modular

  • Co-Ordination in Artificial Agent Societies : Social Structures and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents 3/23/02 Who points to it? 31 - Agents are equipped with expertise about their environment in order to detect and

  • The Intelligent Wireless Web 3/23/02 Who points to it? 30 - The Intelligent Wireless Web ( Peter Alesso, and Craig Smith, Addison Wesley, Dec. 2001, ISBN:0201730634) presents a vision of the Web's near future and overviews the technologies that will make it

  • Mind and Mechanism 4/11/02 Who points to it? 37 - Drew V. McDermott, Mind and Mechanism, MIT Press, October 2001, ISBN: 026213392X. McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences).

  • Our Molecular Future 5/1/02 Who points to it? 30 - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How nanotechnology, robotics,

  • Linked: The New Science of Networks 6/21/02 Who points to it? 30 - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked: The New Science of Networks, Perseus Publishing, ISBN: 0738206679, May 2002. Information, disease, knowledge and just about everything else is disseminated

  • Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks 8/5/02 Who points to it? 34 - Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393041530, May 2002.

  • The electric meme 8/5/02 Who points to it? 34 - The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think, Robert Aunger, Free Press; ISBN: 0743201507, July 2002.

  • emerging semantic web 8/30/02 Who points to it? 25 - The emerging semantic web, edited by Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker,Jérôme Euzenat, and Deborah McGuinness, contains selected papers fromthe first Semantic web working symposium (Volume 75, Frontiers inartificial intelligence and applications series, IOS press,Amsterdam).

  • Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life 9/8/02 Who points to it? 32 - Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical

  • Spinning the Semantic Web 9/9/02 Who points to it? 23 - Spinning the Semantic Web : Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full

  • Machine nature 9/30/02 Who points to it? 28 - Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing, MosheSipper, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071387048, July, 2002. "An enthralling lookat how computer scientists have crossed the line between machines andliving organisms. Sipper takes readers on a thrilling journey to theterra nova of computing, to provide a compelling look at cutting-edgecomputers, robots, and machines now and in the decades ahead."

  • Blondie24: when machines beat their creators 9/30/02 Who points to it? 26 - Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI by David B. Fogel, MorganKaufmann, ISBN: 1558607838,, September, 2001. 2001. Fogel, who isthe editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, considersthe implications for evolutionary computation and AI of Blondie24, whotaught itself to play chexkers.

  • Reputation in Artificial Societies 10/12/02 Who points to it? 23 - Reputation in Artificial Societies: Social Beliefs for Social Order

  • Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution 11/11/02 Who points to it? 30 - Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold, Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0738206083, October 15, 2002. Author Rheingold explores scanrios in which mobile, wireless, net-connected devices are ubiquitous and can share information.

  • Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web 11/11/02 Who points to it? 28 - Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, David Weinberger, Perseus Publishing;,ISBN: 0738205435, March, 2002.

  • Intelligent Wireless Web 11/11/02 Who points to it? 24 - The Intelligent Wireless Web, H. Peter Alesso and Craig F. Smith, Addison Wesley Professional; ISBN: 0201730634, December 2001). This work presents a vision of the Web's near future and overviews the technologies that will make it

  • Prey: A Novel: when agents go bad 12/8/02 Who points to it? 32 - Michael Chrichton's new novel has a protagonis who is a MAS researcher who's decided to be a stay-at-home dad. Unfortuantely, his wife, also a MAS researcher, is deeply involved in a secret project to develop self-replicating nanotechnology and the prototypes are all too successful.

  • Practical AI Programming in Java (free book) 12/12/02 Who points to it? 35 - "Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java" is a free web book written by

  • AIMA 2 12/20/02 Who points to it? 32 - The long awaited second edition of Russell and Norvig's popular text book, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, is rumored to be shiping this month.

  • Dennet on free will, nature and nurture 2/1/03 Who points to it? 31 - Daniel Dennett, Freedom Evolves, Viking Press, February 2003, ISBN:

  • Origins of Right and Wrong in humans, animals (and machines?) 2/1/03 Who points to it? 30 - Frans De Waal, Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans

  • Sync: Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order 4/28/03 Who points to it? 57 - Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Hyperion, March 2003. Strogatz is a Cornell mathematician and pioneer of the science of synchrony, which brings mathematics, physics and biology to bear on the

  • Practical RDF 4/28/03 Who points to it? 575 - Shelley Powers, Practical RDF, O'Reilly, July 2003. Covers RDF, RDFS and OWL.

  • Designing Sociable Robots 5/4/03 Who points to it? 30 - Cynthia L. Breazeal, Designing Sociable Robots, MIT Press, May 2002,

  • Big book of concepts 5/4/03 Who points to it? 33 - The Big Book of Concepts, Gregory L. Murphy, MIT Press, August, 2002,

  • Evolution of Reason 5/26/03 Who points to it? 601 - William S. Cooper, The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology,

  • Description Logic Handbook 5/30/03 Who points to it? 703 - The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and

  • Nature Via Nurture 6/22/03 Who points to it? 720 - Matt Ridley, Nature Via Nurture, HarperCollins, April 2003, ISBN 0060006781. In the follow-up to his bestseller, Genome, Matt Ridley takes on a centuries-old question: is it nature or

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