Title :
An architecture for intelligent resource agents
Author :
Pastor, Jon A. ; Taylor, Suzanne Liebowitz ; McKay, Donald P. ; McEntire, Robin
Author_Institution :
Adv. Software Res., Lockheed Martin C2 Integration Syst., Frazer, PA, USA
Abstract :
The paper describes an intelligent resource agent architecture comprising several classes of mediating agents, which interact cooperatively in a distributed environment to enable appropriate, timely, customized access to Internet resources. These agents communicate with each other in terms of a shared set of object definitions, encoded in a common message syntax. Messages are transmitted via the Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML), an emerging standard agent communication language. This architecture has been demonstrated in the domain of K-12 education, to support remote resource utilization and collaboration in the classroom within a WWW infrastructure
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; cooperative systems; information retrieval; query languages; software agents; K-12 education; Knowledge Query Manipulation Language; WWW infrastructure; classroom; collaboration; common message syntax; cooperative interaction; customized Internet resource access; distributed environment; intelligent resource agent architecture; mediating agents; message transmission; remote resource utilization; shared object definitions; standard agent communication language; timely Internet resource access; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Computer science education; Databases; Educational programs; HTML; Intelligent agent; Internet; Large-scale systems; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Cooperative Information Systems, 1997. COOPIS '97., Proceedings of the Second IFCIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kiawah Island, SC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7946-8
DOI :
10.1109/COOPIS.1997.613812
