University of Utah School of Computing/ARG Personal Assistants

Agent Research Group - Personal Assistants

A personal assistant as an agent which provides the following capabilities:

Acts as an intermediary between information appliances and e-services
Provides an integrated collection of trusted, personalized services that represents the user’s interests
Provides a single point of presence for the user shared by appliances
Acts to simplify and personalize the Internet-based world of information and web services
Can track the user’s context and provide a customized view of local services
Is FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) compliant, the standard that is most widely adopted by commercial and research organizations (see www.fipa.org for more information on FIPA
Is available 24/7

Also, see the .net and agents page for information on our project to integrate .net-based Web services with agents.

Papers

SmartAgent: Extending the JADE Agent Behavior Model, Proceedings of SEMAS, Orlando, Florida, July 2002, (pdf). M. Griss, R. Kessler, S. Fonseca, and D. Cowan [also available as HPL Technical Report HPL-2002-18, January 2002.]
Managing Agent Platforms with the Simple Network Management Protocol, Master's Thesis, University of Utah, 2002. B. Remick (pdf)
Managing Agent Platforms with AgentSNMP, The First International Workshop on “Challenges in Open Agent Systems,” held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. (pdf) B. Remick and R. Kessler
A Robust Environment for Agent Deployment, The First International Workshop on “Challenges in Open Agent Systems,” held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. (pdf) B. Burg, D. Cowan, M. Griss, R. Kessler and B. Remick
Using UML Statemachine Models for More Precise and Flexible JADE Agent Behaviors, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2002), held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. (pdf) M. Griss, S. Fonseca, D. Cowan, and R. Kessler

Support

This work was supported by HP Labs.