Impact: a platform for collaborating agents

The paper discusses the Impact platform (Interactive Maryland Platform) for collaborative agents. Impact agents consist of software code with an associated wrapper that agentizes the code. A set of specialized servers facilitate agent interoperability in an application-independent manner.

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