Assistant Agents that Distribute Knowledge

Ralf Kühnel  (kuehnel@informatik.hu-berlin.de)

The paper describes an assistant program for everyday computer tasks like printing, converting, extracting etc. The assistant looks for services matching the users query, possibly delegates queries to other agents, loads new services over the net and offers its own services to other agents. We use Java as implementing language. From this and other agent applications, implemented in our group we derived implications to a general agent structure.

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