Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-5336112, Fax: +43-1-5320652, Email: sec@ai.univie.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- VORTRAG ******* ao.Univ.-Prof.Dr.Andreas GEYER-SCHULZ Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY AND ITS EMBEDDED (INTELLIGENT) AGENTS In this talk the current state of usage of (intelligent) Internet agents in the virtual university of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration will be presented. Opportunities and challenges for the development of several classes of agents and their sensor systems will be discussed. More specifically, agents of the following classes embedded in the virtual university system will be presented: 1. VU-Library/component interface robots. 2. VU-Component support robots. 3. Adaptive (and personalized) VU-navigation services. 4. Communicating agents for tele-presentation, tele-consulting, recording, multi-media integration, and automated post-editing. For additional information, see: http://vu.wu-wien.ac.at Zeit: Montag, 22.Februar 1999, 18:30 Uhr pktl. Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof.Dr.Robert Trappl