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Software Agents
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In this paper, we discuss an effort to develop and evaluate a generic agent framework. A major goal of this work was to separate genetic agent characteristics from domainspecific characteristics. To test out our ideas, we implemented a demonstration prototype called KAoS (Knowledgeable Agent-oriented System) in SmaUtalk-80 on the Macintosh, extending the Smalltalk primitives in C. We developed the original system to support local and distributed interapplication facilities using Apple Events, Program-to-Program Communication (PPC), Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), and TCP/IP protocols. We are currently extending the architecture with: a more robust object interoperability foundation (Common Object Request Broker Architecture or CORBA), agent authoring and run-time interfaces, and learning and adaptive mechanisms.
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