An architecture for intelligent resource agents
Jon A. Pastor, Stephen Taylor, Donald P. McKay, Robin McEntire · 2002
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.