The pervasiveness of the Internet and immense volume of information therein has inspired the image of intelligent software agents serving your information needs. This talk reports on research performed in the Intelligent Agent Laboratory at the University of Melbourne investigating knowledge-based methods for building Intelligent Agents. Work in several application domains will be presented, including legal judgements, classified ads, and sports scores. A prototype shell for rapidly developing agent applications will be discussed.
Future research is on methods for combining light weight ontologies.
Leon Sterling is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He founded the Intelligent Agent Laboratory in 1996 and is currently co-director. His interests include software engineering, logic programming, and artificial intelligence.