| N. Singh, M. Genesereth, and M. A. Syed, A distributed and anonymous knowledge sharing approach to software interoperation, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 4(4):339--367, 1995. |
....an example KRAFT system in a telecommunications design application domain; Section 7 concludes the paper. 3 Facilitator Agents As introduced above, facilitators provide various routing services within a KRAFT network. As there are many different definitions of facilitators in the literature [1, 3, 4, 10, 14, 16], and the range of services provided by these facilitators varies considerably, this section looks in more detail at exactly how facilitators are used in KRAFT. In the KRAFT project, the facilitator provides routing functionalities to agents queries. These basic functions are: Advertisement ....
N. Singh, M. Genesereth, and M. A. Syed, A distributed and anonymous knowledge sharing approach to software interoperation, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 4(4):339--367, 1995.
....providers available. The selection criteria will include their respective reliability and their cost . Other routing support services include subscription services and service provider browsing. Note that facilitation has been used to describe a number of different roles in various projects [3, 15, 18]. In KSE, for example, facilitators perform the functions of problem decomposition, message routing and vocabulary translation, not just message routings as we do in KRAFT. However, we believe that having a specific facility within the KRAFT domain is advantageous. This is because it enhances ....
N. Singh, M. Genesereth, and M.A. Syed. A distributed and anonymous knowledge sharing approach to software interoperation. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 4(4):339--367, 1995.
....This is beyond the scope of this paper, though. These properties are not mutually exclusive, and there is a wealth of philosophical aspects of agents, which I will not cover here. See [FG96] for a full discussion of the topic. As mentioned above an exact definition is rarely given, but in [MM94] the authors simply state that an entity is an agent if and only if it communicates correctly in ACL . This is a wide ranging definition, but its simplicity has advantages, and I will stick to it when referring to agents later on. However, the exact meaning of correct communication is somewhat ....
Narinder P. Singh, Michael R. Genesereth and Mustafa A.Syed. A distributed and anonymous knowledge sharing approach to software interoperation. In Proc IntSymp. on Fifth Generation Comp Systems ICOT, Vol W3, pages 125--139, Tokyo, Japan, 1994.
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