A softbot-based interface to the Internet
Communications of the ACM
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
KAoS: toward an industrial-strength open agent architecture
Software agents
PACT: an experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems
Readings in agents
Mediators in the architecture of future information systems
Readings in agents
Readings in agents
Itinerant agents for mobile computing
Readings in agents
Using Java Applets and Corba for Multi-User Distributed Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
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Networked computing has drastically changed the way in which people work and exchange information. Although the standard client-server architecture enables sharing of common resources among multiple users, it is non-trivial to share computational resources over the network. In this paper, we present a client-agent-server framework for integrating intranet services in satisfying complex informational tasks. Agents play the key role in linking individual commands into useful plans, and in transforming heterogeneous data into valuable knowledge. The agent-based approach reduces the burden of using distributed services for the end users, and fills the gap between information service providers and clients. In particular, a community of printer agents are presented to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed multi-agent framework.