Location Dependent Service Delivery to Resource Limited Mobile Devices

This position paper describes a novel architecture that will imbue agent software with dynamically configured capabilities. These capabilities, described with DAML-S, can represent atomic or orchestrated services. The DAML-S specification will be transformed into an executable program written in a composition language named Piccola. When executed, the composite service will be available as a semantically described behavior within the FIPA compliant agent. The proposed architecture is designed for scalability, from mobile PDA devices with wireless connectivity to resource-rich server class systems

The evolution of computational agency

Agent-based models have emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing ever increasing complexity of information systems. In its initial days in the 1990s when object-oriented modeling was at its peak, an agent was treated as a special kind of "object" that had a persistent state and its own independent thread of execution. Since then, agent-based models have diversified enormously to even open new conceptual insights about the nature of systems in general. This paper presents a perspective on the disparate ways in which our understanding of agency, as well as computational models of agency have evolved. Advances in hardware like GPUs, that brought neural networks back to life, may also similarly infuse new life into agent-based models, as well as pave the way for advancements in research on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)