agents
RSS agentsAgents Standards
White Paper The paper briefly reviews the needs, objectives and difficulties of standardization for intelligent agents, then discusses one particular current activity: the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). [10 Apr 2008]
Agents and the Semantic Web
White Paper The pieces are coming together, and thus, the semantic web of agents is no longer a science fiction future. Many of the challenges inherent in bringing communicating multi-agent systems to the web require ontologies of the type being developed in... [24 Jan 2005]
Agents Improve Curb Appeal, Reputations and Service With Lexmark Color Technology
White Paper With real estate competition on the rise in almost every community in the country, agents must put their best foot forward, differentiate themselves and optimize their services to appeal to more buyers and sellers. [30 Nov 2005]
Integrated Description for Web Service-Oriented Agents in e-Marketplaces
White Paper In this view, an e-Marketplace is proposed to be modeled as a collaborative integration environment with service-oriented agents (SOAs). SOAs involve integration between service-oriented computing and software agents. [26 Jul 2005]
Optimized Wireless Web Browsing Using Mobile Agents
White Paper This paper proposes a framework that uses mobile agents to dynamically deploy application-specific, bandwidth optimization code. If a given base station does not support mobile agents, it can still be used but in an unoptimized fashion. [01 Aug 2007]
Massive Deployment of Management Agents in Virtual Data Centers
White Paper Management agents perform tasks such as monitoring, processing and dissemination of management and control data, decision-making and actuation. In this paper, three main areas are discussed: a deployment infrastructure with its components, the... [24 Feb 2004]
Protocols for Communication Between QoS Agents: COPS and SDP
White Paper This paper considers two protocols that can be used for the communication between the QoS agents and a QoS management tool in an architecture developed. One solution to ensure QoS needed by multimedia applications is to start the requests directly... [17 Jul 2008]
A Method of Tracing Intruders by Use of Mobile Agents
White Paper A network intrusion detection system (IDA) retrieves information related to intrusions from target systems across the network by using mobile agents. Simultaneously, the agents trace the intruders. IDA detects intrusions based on information... [24 Feb 2004]
Privacy Preserving Trust Agents
White Paper This paper describes two scenarios (one domestic, the other commercial) where Trust Agents can be deployed. A Trust Agent is an assembly of software components arranged to provide trusted remote entities access and control over certain aspects of a... [06 Jan 2007]
Federal Reserve Banks as Fiscal Agents and Depositories of the United States in a Changing Financial Environment
White Paper Fiscal agent services have changed considerably since the Treasury first designated the Banks as depositories and fiscal agents in 1915 and 1916. As the financial services industry has grown, the needs of the government have also changed. [22 Jun 2005]
ACUITY Leads Insurance Industry in Helping Agents Work Efficiently
White Paper ACUITY, an Insurance company foresaw opportunity to increase premiums and agent productivity by making it faster and easier for agents to access information. By responding to agents with real-time business processes, ACUITY could help agents gain... [01 Mar 2004]
A Shipment Tracking System Using Wireless Technology and Mobile Agents
White Paper To demonstrate the applicability of the mobile agent technology in supply chain management, the authors developed a prototype system which makes use of a wireless network link, the global positioning system, and mobile agents. [30 Aug 2007]
Minimal-Intelligence Agents for Bargaining Behaviors in Market-Based Environments
White Paper This report describes simple mechanisms that allow autonomous software agents to engage in bargaining behavoirs in market-based environments. Groups of agents with such mechanisms could be used in applications including market-based control... [24 Feb 2004]
Property and Casualty Insurer Delivers Outstanding Support to Agents With an Industry-Focused, Composite Business Services Platform From IBM
White Paper IBM wanted to deliver outstanding service and support to independent agents and brokers by providing a range of services across core business functions including new business acquisition and policy management while reducing manual touch points and... [14 Mar 2007]
Integrating Agents in Software Applications
White Paper Once the decision is made of using agents in the software application a developer should decide how these agents are going to be implemented and integrated in the application. There are basically two options to implement agents. [23 Jun 2007]
