Calling all agents, where are you?
K. L. Ong, Chee Hau Chew, Wee Keong Ng, Ee‐Peng Lim · 1999
We believe the next step in the application of agent technology to the Internet is the massive population of the Internet with software agents functioning in a wide range of capacities: information filtering, information brokering, commerce, negotiation, and so on. In such an environment, a means to effectively locate relevant agents for relevant tasks is indispensable. We examine issues in the design and implementation of a 'directory agent' that stores meta-information of other agents. In particular, we present results from our work on building a scalable directory agent for a large scale, distributed agent based e-commerce system (the ABECOS project).