Software Secret Weapons: Resources For Building Software Bots

Intro • Employ Helper Bots • Avoid Evil Bots • Defeat Evil Bots • Build Your Own Bot

On this page I list some of the resources useful for someone building Bots. I took it from the old version of http://www.botspot.com, since it's not on the new site. Please let me know about others good resources.

Trading Agent Competition	The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum designed to promote and encourage high quality research into the trading agent problem.
Amzi!	This site contains articles, samples, source code, free/ shareware and applications stories about embedding intelligent components, agents and logic-bases in Web Pages, C/C++, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic and other tools. These components can diagnose problems, recommend configurations, give advice, schedule events, monitor processes, apply business rules and more.
eBot	EBot sits on your PC's desktop and scans the Web for the latest technology, fixes, add-ons, upgrades and "cool stuff." EBot also helps you download, install and manage the items that you download. The more you use it, the more it learns about your likes and dislikes so it can work more accurately in your behalf.
Hal: The Next Generation Intelligent Room	Hal is an offshoot of the MIT AI Lab's Intelligent Room and is designed to be a highly interactive computational environment. We are looking forward towards creating environments analogous to those so familiar to Star Trek viewers - i.e. rooms that listen to you and watch what you do; rooms you can speak with, gesture to, and interact with in other complex ways.
IBM Web Intermediaries	Now you can browse the web for business or pleasure and be more productive than ever before. IBM's Web intermediaries give your web browser the intelligence to remember wherever you've been on the web, what you found there, and can help you recall any word on any page that you've visited.
Intelligent Software	Intelligent Software - Programs that can act independently will ease the burdens that computers put on people. This is an article by Pattie Maes, a founder of Agents, Inc..
Intelligent Software Agents	Intelligent Software Agents from Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science featuring Project Overview, People, Internal Homepage and Publications.
Intelligent Software Agents	A extremely comprehensive site including Information integration agents, coordinated agents, mobile agents, assistant agents, believable agents, recommended reading and other resources.
Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet	Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: An Inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near) future developments by Bjorn Hermans.
Java Agent Template	This web page serves as a repository for information relating to the Java Agent Template (JAT) developed by Rob Frost at both the Center for Design Research and Enterprise Integration Technologies, Inc.
LARS	Living Agents Runtime System (LARS) is an agent API for developing intelligent, mobile agents. The API is written in Java and is free.
Lumiere Project	Lumiere Project: Bayesian Reasoning for Automated Assistance. The Lumiere Project at Microsoft Research was initiated in 1993 with the goal of developing methods and an architecture for reasoning about the goals and needs of software users as they work with software.
NetBots	NetBots is a Macintosh Internet utility that lets you send little "agents" out on the Net to accomplish tasks or notify you of events. Complete documentation, sample bots, feedback and download information is available at this site.
Personal WebWatcher Project	The Personal WebWatcher Project is a "personal" agent that accompanies you from page to page as you browse the web, highlighting hyperlinks that it believes will be of interest. Its strategy for giving advice is learned from feedback from earlier tours.
Pleiades Project	The Pleiades Project objective is to create and demonstrate machine learning methods that allow personal software agents to automatically customize to the needs of their users and methods for automated negotiation among these agents, in order to improve their effectiveness, robustness, scalability and maintainability.
Project Mole — Mobile Agents	Project Mole - Mobile Agents describes a new programming model in the area of distributed systems. A complete Overview, Subprojects, The Mole Team, Papers and Software is available at this site.
SodaBot/SodaBotL Home Page	SodaBot is a research project of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aimed at simplifying the construction of Software Agents. It is part of the lab's Intelligent Room project.
Software Agents Group	Software Agents Group of the MIT Media Laboratory and includes People, Research, Publications, Resources on Agents, Research Opportunities, Internal Documents and Map.
Software Agents: A Review	Software Agents: A Review - is a review of Software Agents prepared by Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd.
Software-Based Agent Technology	A number of related projects within the Multimedia Research Group are committed to developing agent-based solutions to multimedia, hypermedia and image processing problems. To provide high-level support for these agent activities a common framework for agent-based support for distributed information management is being investigated.
Teleport Pro	TelePort Pro is part Swiss army knife, part chainsaw, for Internet access. Sporting ten independent but coordinated retrieval threads, it boasts the fastest total throughput and search speed of any commercially available webspider. Teleport Pro can perform automated site sweeps, updates, and file retrievals; it can download and relink entire websites for offline browsing on any platform — Windows 98/NT, Windows 3.1, and UNIX systems. It can filter its file retrievals by keywords, size, filename patterns, and Internet address patterns.
The Software Agents Mailing List	The Software Agents Mailing List gives information on the mailing list as well as the ability to access its archives by thread, date, subject and author.
webMethods	webMethods is a provider of XML-based Web automation software, providing rapid integration with and direct access to Web data from within business applications.
WebWatcher Project	WebWatcher is a "tour guide" agent for the World Wide Web. Once you tell it what kind of information you seek, it accompanies you from page to page as you browse the web, highlighting hyperlinks that it believes will be of interest. Its strategy for giving advice is learned from feedback from earlier tours.

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