The Distributed Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library

Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

We provide an overview of a distributed-agent architecture design for the large-scale digital library environment currently under development at the University of Michigan. This paper presents some of the design principles and techniques underlying our approach, az well as some preliminary observations from our first steps in developing the system.