Martin L. Griss -  Agent and Personal Assistant Activities, Publications and References

Expertise and interests

• Technology: evaluation and exploitation of several different agent technologies to build multi-agent prototypes for e-commerce, games and personal assistants, and several Agentcities sites. These include extensive use and contribution to the Java-based JADE and Zeus toolkits, development of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) tools, specifically using UML Statechart models to generate agent-behaviors.
• Standards: a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) for Java Agent Services (JAS).
• Education: tutorials and papers on concepts, use and extensions to agents technology.

Agent Publications by Martin Griss and Colleagues

• agent-pubs.htm 

Useful Web sites

1. UMBC agent reference site: http://agents.umbc.edu/ 
      The BEST single place to go for a vast array of information on agents
2. JADE - Java opensource agent toolkit, basis for HP Labs/Utah/UCSC CoolAgent extensions: http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/ 
      See tutorials, downloads; integration with LEAP
3. Utah agent reserach group: http://control.cs.utah.edu/ 
4. Agentcities: http://www.agentcities.net
     A worldwide consortium for FIPA compliant agent interoperability and services
5. FIPA (Foundation for Physical Agents)
     Defines agent communication language, platforms, protocols, abstract architecture
6. HP Labs Palo Alto agents group: http://www.hpl.hp.com/org/stl/maas/ 
     Original home of CoolAgent
7. HP Labs worldwide agents activities: http://www.hpl.hp.com/agents