Thus the described components integrate very nicely and
in a very natural manner into the underlying agent paradigm.
The WASP framework will account for a variety of necessities explained in the next sections.
In contrast to existing major endeavors in this area (Finin, Labrou, & Mayfield, 1997;
Object Management Group, n.d.; O??™Brien & Nicol, 1998), we plan to provide an architecture
that focuses on:
??? proactive information agents that collect information and provide results by using
inference mechanism to reason about the existing information;
??? high-level technical support for the application developer (e.g., communication, distribution,
data storage);
??? tight integration of Web technologies (RDF, Web Services, DAML, SOAP, etc.);
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??? independence from specific kinds of implementations (e.g., no specific communication
language will be enforced); and
??? focus on agents relying on the Semantic Web as the dominant information source.
Thus the following central paradigms will be of greatest importance:
Open Interfaces
Since it is impossible to enforce one true operating system, one true programming language,
or one true CPU architecture for the network underlying the World Wide Web, it is of paramount
importance to provide a powerful means of communication between the interacting
agencies.
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