Yenta is still under active development, but this particular page is not. If you're interested in current research papers about Yenta, or obtaining a copy of Yenta, please start here instead. This page is one of many that were written in late 1994 and early 1995, and are being preserved here for historical purposes. If you're viewing this page, you probably found it via an old link or are interested in the history of how Yenta came to be. These pages have not been actively maintained since 1995, so you'll find all sorts of older descriptions which may not match the current system, citations to old papers and old results, and so forth.
Some agents serve entertaining purposes, rather than strictly utilitiarian ones.
An excellent example of such an agent is Julia , who was written by Michael Mauldin at Carnegie-Mellon University . Later, Michael Mauldin wrote a paper about Julia for AAAI '94.