The world wide web as a place for agents

  • Authors:
  • P. Ciancarini;Robert Tolksdorf;F. Vitali

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Technische Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Informatik, Berlin, Germany;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Artificial intelligence today
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The Word Wide Web was born as an Internet service supporting a simple distributed hypertext management system. Since its start a number of technologies have been proposed to enhance its capabilities. In this paper we describe our concept of an active Web, namely how we design the software architecture of interactive cooperative applications based on the Word Wide web. An active Web includes agents able to use the services offered by Word Wide web clients and servers. In an active Web both users and agents can interoperate using a set of basic mechanisms for communication and synchronization. The active Web we describe here is based on coordination technology: we explore two alternative implementations, both based on Java enriched with alternative coordination kernels.