Ontologies and Agents in Digital Libraries

Key topics about Ontology adapted from AI Magazine, Fall 1997, 18(3), include:

• Defn
• Comparison criteria
• Top level categories, taxonomy. categories, realtions, axioms
• Comparison chart

URLs related include:

• Ontologies
• Indented list diagrams of important ontologies
• CYC Home Page and ontology and table of contents
• WordNet Home Page and online demo
• Generalized Upper Model: model, overall organization, concept hierarchy, relational hierarchy
• UMLS Home Page and fact sheets, MeSH, Grateful Med and demo
• TOVE - Toronto Virtual Enterprise
• KIF - Knowledge Interchange Format and brief intro
• Stanford Knowledge Modeling Group and Layout Editor
• Ontolingua
• EUROKNOWLEDGE Glossary etc.
• Stanford DLI and agents, especially for Web browsing
  • InterPay : Shopping Models, Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe
• ILU and Stanford testbed use
• Agents '97 Conf.
• CHI '97 Software Agents Tutorial by Pattie Maes and her Software Agents Group
• My Yahoo (successor to Webdoggie from MIT)
• IBM Agents, and the Agent Building Environment (ABE): A toolkit for building intelligent agent applications
• Machine Learning software and datasets - naive Bayes classifier - see AI Magazine Fall 1997 p. 18
• IBM DL: QBIC, watermarking (go here and then search for "watermarking")
• Hal Berghel: CACM Nov. 1997 40(11): Watermarking Cyberspace, and IEEE Computer 29:7 article (only if you subscribe)
• eCash (Ch. 11)

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• Agents: people and places
  • iimam@site.gmu.edu adaptatation, intelligence
  • yves.Kodratoff@Iri.Iri.fr
  • Brian Gaines, U. Calgary: society of agents
  • Haynes, Sen : U. Tulsa: cases
  • Rus, Dartmouth: gather info
  • Decker, Sycara, Williamson: CMU: multiagent society, planning, matchmaker info agent

Questions:

• Try WordNet on "library" and look for coordinate terms on senses 1,2,3
• Try Grateful Med and find MeSH / Meta Terms for "diabetes"