The HIVE Agent Server may modify perceived
data based on personalization and security rules.
??? The HIVE Agent Server must allow for communication using a variety of agent communication
languages (ACLs) to be able to integrate a variety of agent systems. This
probably will include the necessity to provide translation services between different
agent communication languages in order to allow communication between agents of
different breeds.
??? The HIVE Agent Server must provide a management facility so that external users can
examine the state of the server and the agents running on it. The management facility
must include all kinds of standard management functionality to allocate resources,
control permission, direct agents and so on.
??? The WASP Agent Interface must be structured so that existing agent frameworks can
be easily integrated into the system while there also must be enough room to develop
new concepts and architectures. Additionally, the interface must be extensible, so that
incremental extensions may be made both forward and backward compatibly, allowing
upgrades to clients or servers in either order.
Interestingly, the requirements concerning the actual agents are very small; when examining,
for example, the proposed scope of software agents in Gilbert, Aparicio, Atkinson, Brady,
Ciccarino, Grosof, et al.
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