Agent software is a rapidly develo** area of research. However, the overuse of the word
“agent” has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of …

The conventional approach to preserving the confidentiality of health records aggregates all
records within a geographical area that has a population large enough to ensure prevention …

The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is,
and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

The authors propose the markup of Web services in the DAML family of Semantic Web
markup languages. This markup enables a wide variety of agent technologies for automated …

The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

It is not unusual in the information technology (IT) literature to see different perspectives
expressed on the same technology, particularly when it is of critical concern as an …

Letizia is a user interface agent that assists a user browsing the World Wide Web. As the
user operates a conventional Web browser such as Netscape, the agent tracks user …

The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information--telephone directories,
product catalogs, stock quotes, weather forecasts, etc. Recently, many systems have been …

The Definitive Volume on Cutting-Edge Exploratory Analysis of Massive Spatial and
Spatiotemporal DatabasesSince the publication of the first edition of Geographic Data …