Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information

Laufmann, S.C.

doi:10.1007/3-540-55616-8_50

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“…Mapping a user's request into the IQL is relatively simple because they use the same user-level concepts. More details regarding the design of Ihe IQL are given in [19],…”

Section: Intermediate Query Languagementioning

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Direct end-user access to remote information

Laufmann

Blumenthal

Thompson

et al. 1991

Conference Proceedings on Organizational Computing Systems - COCS '91

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Many large, widely distributed organizations struggle with the enormous task of providing the right information to the right people at the right time. Organizations facing this task often develop groups of analysts who specialize in supplying information transport and access capabilities to end-users. However, this approach has several drawbacks. Our aim is to address these problems at their source -not by replacing analysts in the information access problem, but by automating the roles assumed by analysts. Toward this end, this paper describes a strategy that combines four techniques to solve such problems: (1) an architecture for coarse-grained agents (CGAS}, (2) a communication protocol that enables CGAS to interact, (3,) an intermediate query language (IQL), designed around user-level concepts, and (4) a query translation mechanism that transforms IQL requests into database-specific queries. A prototype implementation, known as oMIE, is described.

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“…Mapping a user's request into the IQL is relatively simple because they use the same user-level concepts. More details regarding the design of Ihe IQL are given in [19],…”

Section: Intermediate Query Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The CGA level N+ 1 protocol.For a more detailed example of communication among agents using this protocol, see[ 19].…”

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Direct end-user access to remote information

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Conference Proceedings on Organizational Computing Systems - COCS '91

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“…The inte22ect which is the faculty for knowledge, reasoning and decision making[12]. Besides the particular actor called L-transceiver to follow it and send the result back, and changes into a new state which is free of that query and is waiting for another message.…”

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TrActorS: a transactional actor system for distributed query processing

Haghjoo

Papazoglou

[1992] Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

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Transaction management in distributed information systems is a very important issue still under research scrutiny. Most of the research and development activities use conventional database technology to address this important issue. It is our view that distributed transaction management can be dealt with more effectively by using a cross-fertilization of AI and DB concepts. Under this assumption transaction management assumes a new identity.In this paper we argue in favor of a novel transactional model which uses actor-like objects in conjunction with distributed blackboarding techniques for addressing the process of reasoning about the need for cooperation and negotiation between the disparate information sources in a distributed information network.

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The information marketplace: Achieving success in commercial applications

Laufmann¹

1996

Electronic Commerce

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Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Direct end-user access to remote information

Direct end-user access to remote information

TrActorS: a transactional actor system for distributed query processing

The information marketplace: Achieving success in commercial applications

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