An object-oriented framework for building collaborative network agents

We are primarily interested in the design of software agents supporting interoperability in a heterogeneous computing system. We view an agent as a composite object consisting of several other objects including a finite state machine, a model of the world, strategies associated with every state and an agenda. We introduced an object- oriented framework for building collaborative network agents. Moreover, we introduce an agent definition language and describe a mechanism to create agents dynamically.

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