Note: This page is historical.

Current pages about Yenta are here. Please look at those pages first.

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.

First steps towards a matchmaker

First steps toward implementation of the Yenta system attempt to simplify out several aspects of the problem.

For starters, we simulated the entire network, by running the agent on a single machine. This means that many pieces do not yet need to exist, such as the network transport, the distribution system, mail scanner, and so forth. Along these lines, the user interface may be nonexistent.

These simulation results were reported in:

A Multi-Agent Referral System for Matchmaking (Postscript or PDF), presented at The First International Conference on the Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, London, UK, April '96.
Clustering and Information Sharing in an Ecology of Cooperating Agents (Postscript PDF), presented at The AAAI Spring Symposium '95 on Information Gathering in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments, Palo Alto, CA.

Additional results are available here.

P.S. Yes, the picture is an imitation Picasso.

Lenny Foner

Last modified: Fri Jan 22 02:53:34 EST 1999