•UMBC, JHU, and MIT are
working together on a set of issues under
funding from DARPA
–UMBC (Finin, et. al.) is focused on integrating communicating
agents, DAML and the Web
–JHU APL (Mayfield, et. al.) is building
information indexing and retrieval systems that work with documents and
queries that contain a mixture of free text, XML and DAML
–MIT Sloan School (Grosof et. al.) is
developing techniques for integrating rule based technology and distributed
belief into DAML
•To be integrated in
agent-based applications involving search and using rule-based reasoning.