From: The Intelligent Software
Agents/RETSINA Group, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: Lori Price, Writer/Editor:
nospam-lrprice at cs dot cmu dot edu
Written by: Michael D. Rectenwald,
December 6, 2000
Supports
the New World Wide Web of Services
Pittsburgh:
The Intelligent
Software Agents/RETSINA Group at The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon
is changing the World Wide Web from a web of information to a web of services.
The RETSINA Group’s
vision of the web is one in which intelligent software agents will read the
content of web pages, advertise their services, and find other agents who
will perform needed services for their human subscribers. Intelligent software
agents will find information, coordinate it with other domain-specific data,
perform scheduling, planning and other tasks, flexibly and dynamically responding
to changes in their environments. The World Wide Web will change from a static
web of information to a dynamic web populated by agents performing various
tasks for their human users.
To that end, the
ATLAS project (Agent Transaction Language for Advertising Services) is developing
the language to translate web-based content and structure into an agent-friendly
semantics. Developing DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language), ATLAS is part of
the second web revolution, which is to establish a markup language that allows
intelligent software agents to reason and draw inferences about web content.
Currently, we
are developing the language (ontologies) for describing agents, from which
agents will be able to deduce each other’s capabilities. The language will
help describe agent functionality and the services that agents and web resources
can provide.
We welcome you
or members of your writing staff to visit and interview our relevant researchers,
and to watch demonstrations of our agent technology in action.
The Intelligent Software Agents/RETSINA
Group, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
