School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA. 15213
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents
The rapidly evolving nature of current information environments and
applications gives rise to the necessity for rapid and flexible interactions
among information systems that foster component interoperability and cooperation.
In this talk we will present our vision of how such systems can be developed.
We will introduce the notion of Middle Agents and present a middle agent
typology and corresponding communication protocols. In addition, we present
LARKS, a language that enables heterogeneous information systems to interoperate.