"Software Agents: The Next Generation"

10/21/1997: [time not recorded]
[location not recorded]

Abstract: Software agents are entities that function continuously and autonomously in a particular environment that is often inhabited by other agents and processes. Ideally, such agents learn from their experiences, communicate and cooperate with people and with other agents, and, as required, move from place to place within private networks and on the public Internet. In this presentation, we will look at the history and future of agent technology, and illustrate some of those trends with reference to current work on the KAoS agent architecture and its applications in aerospace and medicine.

About Jeff Brashaw: Jeff received a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at the University of Washington. Named a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in 1993, he spent twelve months at the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France. He is currently a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition at the University of West Florida and a Senior Principal Scientist at the Research and Technology Division of Boeing Information and Support Services, leading the Intelligent Agent Technology program. He also co-leads a group at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that is developing technology to assist with long-term post-transplant care of bone marrow transplant patients. He has edited the books Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity (with Ken Ford, John Wiley, 1993), and Software Agents (AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997).

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