Agility: Agent - Ility Architecture

Abstract

Today's agent systems are monolithic, centralized, and do not provide a clear migration path for integration with mainstream technologies (e.g., object and web technologies). The objective of the Agility project is to develop an open agent grid architecture populated with scalable, deployable, industrial strength agent grid components, targeting the theme 'agents for the masses.' The overall technical approach has been to deconstruct agent systems into components, then populate an open agent grid architecture with scalable light-weight agent grid components that are engineered to piggyback on existing and emerging standards (e.g., distributed objects, email, web, search engines, XML, Java, Jini). Three agent system components resulted from this work: a light-weight agent system that uses email for message transport (eGents), a constrained natural language interface system that can wrap agents and other Internet resources and operate over the web (AgentGram), a yellow pages service that uses Internet search engines to locate XML ads for agents and other Internet resources (WebTrader).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408751

Entities

People

  • Craig P Thompson
  • Paul Pazandak
  • Steve Ford
  • Tom Bannon
  • Venu Vasudevan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Electronic Mail
  • Grammars
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Lessons Learned
  • Natural Languages
  • Networks
  • Standards
  • Web Browsers
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Software Engineering.