September 2008: Perspectives: Software agents make their
way out of the laboratory
What have stem cell research and business data processing
in common? At present very little, apart from the fact
that “agent based software development”, a
novel way of writing software, could be a key to progress
in both fields. ...more
Source: Financial Times, 16 September
2008
October 2006: Best-kept secret agent revealed
No longer just the province of specialist sectors,
agent-based computing is changing the way systems
interact and how they are managed. Agent-based computing
has already transformed processes such as automated
financial markets trading, logistics, and industrial
robotics. Now it is moving into the mainstream commercial
sector ...more
Source: Computer Weekly, 12 October 2006
September 2006: New models to improve the reliability of
virtual organisations
Press release: 29 September 2006
Models of virtual organisations that operate within
reliable and trustworthy parameters are being developed
in ECS. As the market for virtual organisations grows
there is a need to ensure that computerised agents can be
trusted ...more
June 2006: Not to secret agents
While we have something of a phobia when it comes to
information technology, partly on the grounds that too
many people automatically think IT at any mention of the
T word, some computing tricks will have a genuine impact
on how business operates, and much more so than many of
the overhyped toys you read about. ...more
Source: Science|Business, 10 June
2006
May 2006: Agent-Based Computing
Can a computer be clever? We take you on a journey inside
the mind of computers that resaon and interact, answering
spatial information questions of the day - how do you
schedule oil tankers anyhow? ...more
Source: Geoconnexion Magazine, May 2006.
May 2006: ECS double success at AAMAS 06
Press release: 21 May 2006
Teams from ECS carried off two major awards at AAMAS 06,
the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems, held this month in
Hakodate, Japan ...more
April 2006: Watchpoint: Agent Computing Set to Be An
Agent of Change
Agent-based computing has been around for years, but now
its proponents are making big claims for its suitability
for a range of advanced applications. James Hayes reports
... more
Source: IET Information Professional, April
2006.
March 2006: Little book addresses some of our biggest
systems
Press release: 13 March 2006
An unusual booklet published this month by one of the
UK's leading computer scientists aims to highlight the
development of agent-based computing and to illustrate
the wide reach of this exciting technology in our
everyday lives ...more
October 2005: Roadmap on agent-based computing to be
launched
Press release: 14 October 2005
A roadmap which suggests how agent-based computing could
develop over the next decade will be launched this month
... more
September 2005: Future of Computing: Agent-based
computing for next generation apps
Michael Luck of the University of Southampton and Peter
McBurney of the University of Liverpool look at
agent-based computing ... more
Source: IT Now, September 2005.
October 2003: Cyber-astronomer scours the skies
A software agent that can automatically assume control of
some of the world's most powerful telescopes and quickly
train them on the most violent events in the universe has
passed its first test. ...more
Source: New Scientist, 25 October 2003
August 2003: Software agents could tackle human genome
data explosion
THE laborious process of deciphering the human genome
could be accelerated by decades thanks to software that
vastly improves researchers' ability to collect and
analyse data. A prototype system is now being developed
at universities in the UK. ...more
Source: New Scientist, 9 August 2003