Building an Agent Technology for Users of the LOCATE Workspace Layout Tool

Abstract

Work developed a tight integration between LOCATE's ability to track user activity and a new LOCATE Agent Network whose ultimate goal is to help ease the data entry burden for LOCATE users. A society of agents was created using the JATLite development environment and KQML communication protocols. An extension to this contract generalised the LOCATE work to the area of manning reduction on naval vessels. Agents conduct periodic searches of the Internet using the same search and filtering techniques. Future work on LOCATE will use retrieved information to extend LOCATE's internal, intelligent-aiding support for data entry. Future work on the Manning Agent Network will extend the functionality of its filtering agents and refine its search strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA636760

Entities

People

  • Jack L. Edwards

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Internet
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Networks
  • Ontologies
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Agents
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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