Agent frameworks
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ILOG announces the world's first dynamically adaptable engine for
C++ intelligent agents. Paris -- October 30, 1996. ILOG, the world's leading provider of C++
class libraries for strategic business applications, today announced
version 4.0 of ILOG Rules, its system for creating intelligent agents
using high-performance telecoms, financial and help-desk
applications. The new version comprises a unique feature that allows
users to alter agent behaviour as their needs change, without having
to write C++ code. They can simply change existing rules or add new
rules while the application is running. The Rules 4.0 interpreter
allows an intelligent agent to load new rules directly from text,
making it easier to implement real-time filters and batch checking
systems. Complex systems involving multiple ILOG Rules intelligent
agents, databases and feedback loops are now practical to implement.
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12/9/96
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The Caltech Infospheres
Infrastructure (II) is a distributed system framework that is
implemented in Java. It provides a generic object model and a variety
of messaging models: asynchronous, synchronous, and remote procedure
calls. This system is freely available so that researchers and
developers can develop lightweight distributed systems that can
leverage open standards and the world wide web. Caltech is developing
methodologies that take advantage of the system's design so that
reasoning on entire distributed systems is feasible. With these
methodologies, one can say something about the reliability,
completeness, and robustness of a distributed system as a whole. The
II is being extended to support interoperability with other
distributed system models and to utilize emerging standards in the
Java domain. Because the system is designed and implemented in a
generic manner, the ideas, algorithms, and theories developed within
the II framework are directly applicable to existing distributed
systems and frameworks. 9/4/96
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MAGENTA (Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications) is a
project at TU Berlin whose goal is to design a comprehensive framework
(MAGENTA agent framework) for the development of agent-based
telecommunication applications. Additional framework constituents
which will be realized in the course of the MAGENTA project, are a
CORBA and Java based reference platform for agent systems (MAGENTA
Agent Platform), a design and development methodology, corresponding
tools and generic application components which can be used as building
blocks for new, agent-based telecommunication applications. Analysis
and design methods, tools and generic components will form the basis
for the long-term development of an integrated agent development
environment (MAGENTA Agent Development Environment). 8/11/96
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General Magic announced and is shipping two Telescript-based products
in a new line of Tabriz
software for the web which "transform passive networks and
applications into active, secure processes for competitive advantage."
Tabriz AgentWare is general-purpose software that enables the
creation and interaction of "processes" that can occur and interact
with one another, even while users requesting the processes aren't
actively connected to a network. Processes can be requests for
information, authorization and verification and other tasks that are
part of a larger goal. The technologies used to build AgentWare
result in processes that are active, secure and persistent across the
Internet, the World Wide Web and corporate intranets-processes that
can be used to build a new, superior class of applications. Tabriz
Agent Tools is an integrated, graphical set of tools for creating,
debugging and maintaining Tabriz applications. Tabriz Agent Tools is
available now as a UNIX System application; a beta release of a
version for Windows NT is expected to ship this Autumn. Tabriz Agent
Tools provides a source-code editor, a class browser, a source-level
debugger and features for managing the components used to build Tabriz
applications.8/10/96
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Mole is a Java-based mobile agent system developed at the
University of Stuttgart. Mole is available as Java source code under
a free internal use license for non-commercial purposes and is based
on JDK 1.0.2. It requires the JavaSoft RMI
package, so probably only runs on Solaris and Windows NT/95. Some of
the features are: migration of Java Agents (code and data but no
threads) to other systems running Mole; communication between agents
via messages and a Java RPC locally; secure agent execution via
provision of a SecurityManager; controlled access to system resources
via system agents; agents are addressed by their name and the DNS name
of the "location" they reside on ; and local yellow pages service for
services provided and requested by agents. 6/21/96
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