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The agent architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library
Abstract
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) architecture encapsulates the many functionalities required in a digital library as a population of modular, goal-oriented, specialised ‘agents’. These agents participate in markets for exchanging goods and services, and team their abilities to compose complex services. Realising the UMDL agent architecture requires us to provide sound mechanisms to encapsulate functions as agents, protocols to support the evolution of teams and agent interactions through markets, and protocols to enable interoperability among library agents that are teamed. The software-engineering aspects of our effort (the tools, techniques and experiences gained) are the focus of this paper.
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- Authors
- Durfee, E. H., Kiskis, D. L., & Birmingham, W. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- ORCID
- Durfee, E.H.
- Venue
- IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering
- Published
- 1997
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 61
- ISSN
- 1364-5080 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2111921726
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2016: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 8.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Keywords
- digital libraries, agent architecture, multi-agent systems, goal-oriented agents, service composition, team evolution, interoperability, software engineering tools
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