Table of Contents
Intelligent Software Agents
Overview
What is an agent? A brief tour of agent-space
What is a software agent?
So, what’s a software agent?
an emerging system-building paradigm
Software Agent Characteristics
Agent Characteristic: Mobility?
Agent Characteristic: Intelligence?
Some key ideas
Agent-related research at UMBC
Agent Communication
Some ACLs
Knowledge Sharing Effort
Knowledge Interchange Format
KIF Syntax and Semantics
Common Semantics Shared Ontologies and Ontolingua
Conceptual Schemas
Ontology Library and Editing Tools
KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
A KQML Message
Some KQML Performatives
Simple Query Performatives
KQML protocols
Semantics for tell(A,B,X)
KQML APIs and System Interfaces
Lockheed/UMBC KQML Software Architecture
KQML Utility Agents
KQML Utility Agents
Example -- TKQML
A Sample TKQML Agent
PPT Slide
Manufacturing enterprise integration
CIIMPLEX Agent System
Jackal
Jackal Architecture
Conversation Templates
Distributor
Simple Broker Agent
Adding Semantic Information
Course Ontology
Example
PPT Slide
CARROT: Cooperating Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text
Key Ideas in Basic Architecture
PPT Slide
CARROT Back-end Agent
Telltale
Documents as term vectors
n-grams vs. words
VR based visualization of retrieval
VR Approach
Visualizing a document space
Linneaus
Conclusions
Some key ideas
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