Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers

University “Politehnica” of Bucharest

Department of Computer Science

 

AI-MAS Links

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence

 

Associations

 

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).

                     A repository of relevant and useful information, including:

 

          - Description of AI topics (http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/HomePage), such as:

                     Intelligent agents

                     Multi Agent Systems

 

          - List of important AI conferences

          - Universities with AI programmes

and much more.

 

The ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)

                     The ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award

 

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Mimicking nature for problem solving

 

The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence

 

Web Intelligence Consortium - a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence, including intelligent agents, and advanced Information Technology

 

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

 

Associations and research networks

 

IFAAMAS. The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote science and technology in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

 

Agreement Technologies - EU COST Action IC0801. Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. 2008-2012

 

Multi-Agent Systems. Where game theory, artificial intelligence, and the semantic web meet

The site contains news, pointers to information about multiagent systems, including both research and industrial references.

 

AgentLink III is the premier Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing, funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Program

 

Self-Organisation in MAS - TFG AgentLink III. Site with essential information on self-organizing multi-agent systems and related events

 

Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium. A site aiming to foster and improve the development, communication, and dissemination of agent based models for research, practice, and education. A lot of useful information, including news and events.

 

 

MAS standards organisations

 

FIPA - Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

 

Agent UML – UML standard for agents and MAS

 

AI and MAS well known companies

 

Cycorp, Inc. - Cycorp was founded in 1994 to research, develop, and commercialize Artificial Intelligence. Cycorp's vision is to create the world's first true artificial intelligence, having both common sense and the ability to reason with it.

 

Soar Technology, Inc. - Design of "highly human" intelligent agents

 

Autonomous Decision Making Software

 

Franz Inc.

          Enterprise Development Tools (Allegro CL)

          Semantic Web Technologies (AllegroGraph, RacerPro)

 

 

Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems

 

Essential BOOKS

 

M. Wooldridge. An Introduction to Multiagent Systems. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2002.

 

M. d'Inverno, M. Luck. Understanding Agent Systems. Springer Verlag, 2001.

 

M. Wooldrige. Reasoning about Rational Agents. The MIT Press, 2000

 

Gerhard Weiss (Ed.). Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press, 1999

 

J. Ferber. Multi-Agent Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

 

M. Huhns & M. Singh (Eds.). Readings in Agents. Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

 

S. Russell, P. Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second Edition). Prentice Hall, 2002 (third edition for November 2009)

 

Plus a wonderful book, that everyone should read

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

 

 

AI and MAS Journals

 

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer Netherlands

 

Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier B.V.

 

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

 

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

 

http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Journals/sponsored-journals.php

 

 

AI and MAS resources

 

The AI Depot is a community website focusing on artificial intelligence.

 

AI Space - Tools for learning and exploring concepts in artificial intelligence

 

Agents group at RMIT

 

Prometheus Design Tool (PDT)

 

KurzweilAI.Net focuses on the exponential growth of intelligence, both biological and machine, and their merger, as humans transcend biology.

 

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

 

The Singularity Summit 2009

 

Stanford AI Laboratory

 

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

 

Artificial Intelligence at Rutgers

 

Peter Norvig home page – includes many resources on AI

 

Chatbots Directory - List of all chatbots (chatterbots, chat bot, conversational agents, virtual agents) in the World (still populating).

 

Soar Architecture - The Soar home page, Soar – Project hosting on Google code

 

Open Cyc - OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc(r) technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and reasoning engine.

                               OpenCyc for the Semantic Web

 

 

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, by David S. Touretzky

 

Franz Inc. Lisp Community Resources

 

Automated Theorem Proving: Prover9

 

 

Semantic Web

 

Semantic Web wiki

 

W3C Semantic Web Activity

 

Semantic Web Science Association

 

Semantic Web on Wikipedia

 

Tim Berners Lee on the Semantic Web (2007)

 

Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web (2009)

 

OWL

 

Protégé - A free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework

 

 

Resources for the young scientist

 

Academic publishing

 

Writing a Scientific Paper

 

ISI Web of Knowledge

 

Master Journal List

 

Conference Proceedings Citation Index

 

TED – Ideas worth spreading