Infomaster: A Virtual Information System

Infomaster is a virtual information system that allows users to access a variety of heterogeneous, distributed information from multiple perspectives. Infomaster accesses information stored in databases or knowledge bases using Agent Communication Language (ACL), a combination of KQML, KIF, and Ontologies. Facilitators are used decompose, route, and translate requests and assemble, route, and translate responses. Information may be queried and presented in a variety of formats. Infomaster is an operational system that currently presents information on rental housing and on people at Stanford.