Digital Digital Transportable Information Agents Transportable Information Agents

Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can movethrough a heterogeneous network of computers migrating from host tohost under their own control. They can sense the state of thenetwork, monitor software conditions, and interact with other agentsor resources. The network-sensing tools allow our agents to adapt tothe network configuration and to navigate under the control ofreactive plans. In this paper we describe the design andimplementation of a transportable-agent system and focus on navigationtools that give our agents autonomy. We also discuss the intelligentand adaptive behavior of autonomous agents in distributed information-access tasks.

[1]  James Allan,et al.  Automatic Hypertext Construction , 1995 .

[2]  Rodney A. Brooks,et al.  A Robust Layered Control Syste For A Mobile Robot , 2022 .

[3]  Tom M. Mitchell,et al.  Experience with a learning personal assistant , 1994, CACM.

[4]  G Salton,et al.  Automatic Analysis, Theme Generation, and Summarization of Machine-Readable Texts , 1994, Science.

[5]  Gerard Salton,et al.  The smart document retrieval project , 1991, SIGIR '91.

[6]  John K. Ousterhout,et al.  Tcl and the Tk Toolkit , 1994 .

[7]  Gerard Salton,et al.  Automatic Text Theme Generation and the Analysis of Text Structure , 1994 .

[8]  Oren Etzioni,et al.  A softbot-based interface to the Internet , 1994, CACM.

[9]  Joel H. Saltz,et al.  Network-aware mobile programs , 1997 .

[10]  Jonathan Rees,et al.  A tractable Scheme implementation , 1994, LISP Symb. Comput..

[11]  Bruce Randall Donald,et al.  Analyzing teams of cooperating mobile robots , 1994, Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[12]  Brent B Welch,et al.  Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk , 1999 .

[13]  David Kotz,et al.  An RPC Mechanism for Transportable Agents , 1996 .

[14]  James Allan,et al.  Selective text utilization and text traversal , 1993, Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud..

[15]  Christian Plaunt,et al.  Subtopic structuring for full-length document access , 1993, SIGIR.

[16]  Devika Subramanian,et al.  Customizing multimedia information access , 1995, CSUR.

[17]  Bart Selman,et al.  Bottom-up design of software agents , 1994, CACM.

[18]  Andrew Birrell,et al.  Implementing remote procedure calls , 1984, TOCS.

[19]  Pattie Maes,et al.  Agents that reduce work and information overload , 1994, CACM.

[20]  Michael McGill,et al.  Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval , 1983 .

[21]  John K. Ousterhout,et al.  A Safe Tcl Toolkit for Electronic Meeting Places , 1995, USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce.

[22]  Keith D. Kotay,et al.  Transportable Agents , 1994 .

[23]  Robert S. Gray,et al.  Agent Tcl: A transportable agent system , 1995, CIKM Information Agents Workshop.

[24]  George Cybenko,et al.  Mobile agents for mobile computing , 1996 .

[25]  Joseph R. Falcone.  A programmable interface language for heterogeneous distributed systems , 1987, TOCS.

[26]  Michael R. Genesereth,et al.  Software agents , 1994, CACM.

[27]  Robbert van Renesse,et al.  Operating system support for mobile agents , 1995, Proceedings 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V).

[28]  James A. Gosling,et al.  The java language environment: a white paper , 1995 .

[29]  Gerard Salton,et al.  Automatic Text Processing: The Transformation, Analysis, and Retrieval of Information by Computer , 1989 .

[30]  Philip G. Johnson.  Cornell University , 1897, The Journal of comparative medicine and veterinary archives.

[31]  Devika Subramanian,et al.  Multi-media RISC informatics: retrieving information with simple structural components , 1993, CIKM '93.

[32]  Daniela Rus,et al.  Transportable agents support worldwide applications , 1996, EW 7.

[33]  Daniela Rus,et al.  Generating, Visualizing, and Evaluating High-Quality Clusters for Information Organization , 1998, PODDP.

[34]  George Cybenko,et al.  AGENT TCL: Targeting the Needs of Mobile Computers , 1997, IEEE Internet Comput..

[35]  Robert S. Gray,et al.  Agent Tcl: a Exible and Secure Mobile-agent System , 1996 .

[36]  Pattie Maes,et al.  Agents that reduce work and information overload , 1994, CACM.

[37]  Rodney A. Brooks,et al.  Elephants don't play chess , 1990, Robotics Auton. Syst..

[38]  José L. Balcázar,et al.  Structural Complexity I , 1995, Texts in Theoretical Computer Science An EATCS Series.