Table of contents
Building and Using Practical Agent Applications
Contents
Slide PPT
What Is an Agent?
Approaches to Building Applications
Approaches to Distributed Computing
Mobile Objects (Agents)
Blackboard Architectures
Publish & Subscribe Brokers
Agent Communication Languages
Comparison of Distributed Approaches
Overview of the OAA
OAA Architecture
Automated Office Application
OAA Characteristics
OAA-based Applications
Slide PPT
Interoperation
Interoperation
Coordination & Control
Alternative Agent Control Strategies
Applicability of Strategies
Information Management and Sharing
Intelligent User Interfaces
Slide PPT
OAA Architecture
Interagent Communication Language
Providing Services
Requesting Services
Compound Queries
Facilitation
OAA Data Management
OAA Triggers
System-Building Infrastructure
A Sample Text-to-Speech Agent in C
A Sample Text-to-Speech Agent in Prolog
OAA and Scalability
Slide PPT
Agent & Interagent Programming Tips
Tips: Choosing an Agent Interface
Tips: 3 Information Sharing Strategies
Tips: Information Sharing Strategies - Post
Tips: Information Sharing Strategies - Inform
Tips: Domain-Specific vs. Domain Independent Agents
Tips: Adding Speech & NL
Unified Messaging: Problem
Unified Messaging: Components
Unified Messaging: Implementation 1/2
Unified Messaging: Implementation 2/2
Multimodal Maps Application
Multimodal Interfaces using Parallel Distributed Agents
Multimodal Reference Resolution
Information Broker: Requirements
Information Broker: Functionality
Mediation
Retrieval Strategies
User and Task Modeling
Sample Queries
Information Broker: Architecture
The Broker
Surrogates
Persistent Queries
Useful Features of the Framework
Collaboration-ready Data Management
Incremental System Development & Evaluation
Subject Screen vs. Wizard Screen
Subject Video
Hybrid Wizard Of Oz Experiment
Hybrid WOZ: Implementation
Looking for Killer Apps
OAA-based Applications
MVIEWS Application
MVIEWS Architecture
InfoWiz Kiosk
InfoWiz Kiosk Architecture
Multi-Robot Control
Agent Development Tools
Concluding Remarks
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