IMPACT: A System for Building Agent Applications

  • Authors:
  • T. J. Rogers;Robert Ross;V. S. Subrahmanian

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. rogers@cs.umd.edu;Department of Computer Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. robross@cs.umd.edu;Department of Computer Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. vs@cs.umd.edu

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on methodologies for intelligent information systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

IMPACT (Interactive Maryland Platform for AgentsCollaborating Together) provides a platform and environment for agentand software interoperability being developed as a joint,multinational effort with participants from the University ofMaryland, the Technische Universität Wien, Bar-IlanUniversity, the University of Koblenz, and the Universita di Torino.Here, we describe the overall architecture of the IMPACT system, andoutline how this architecture (i) allows agents to be developedeither from scratch, or by extending legacy code-bases, (ii) allowsagents to interact with one another, (iii) allows agents to have avariety of capabilities (reactive, autonomous, intelligent, mobile,replicating) and behaviors, and (iv) how IMPACT provides a variety ofinfrastructural services that may be used by agents to interact withone another.