WebVector: agents with URLs

Author

Goddard, T. ; Sunderam, V.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

18-20 Jun 1997

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

105

Abstract

Emerging web applications demand considerable network resources and, especially in science and engineering, considerable computational resources. The use of agents can eliminate bottlenecks in both areas, provided that their methods of computation and communication are not overly restricted. WebVector is an agent system that combines a flexible communication model with URL-based agent identification. Within this framework, resources can be centralized to support the current web-browser security model or distributed for efficiency. Interfacing with existing software can be as simple as adding a hyperlink to a file. We concentrate on cooperative applications: uploadable active resources, flexible multicast for maintaining shared-space state, and a variety of applications from distributed computation

Keywords

Internet; cooperative systems; software agents; URLs; WebVector; agent identification; agents; cooperative applications; distributed; distributed computation; flexible communication; flexible multicast; security model; shared-space state; uploadable active resources; web-browser; Application software; Collaboration; Communication system security; Computer science; Data security; File servers; Proteins; Solvents; Uniform resource locators; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1997. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE Workshops on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7967-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1997.630798

Filename

630798