Toward inquiry-based education through interacting software agents
Atkins, D.E.; Birmingham, W.P.; Durfee, E.H.; Glover, E.J.; Mullen, T.; Rundensteiner, E.A.; Soloway, E.; Vidal, J.M.; Wallace, R.; Wellman, M.P.
Computer
Volume 29, Issue 5, May 1996 Page(s):69 - 76
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/2.494084
Summary:The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) project is
creating an infrastructure for rendering library services over a digital
network. When fully developed, the UMDL will provide a wealth of
information sources and library services to students, researchers, and
educators. Tasks are distributed among numerous specialized modules
called agents. The three classes of agents are user interface agents,
mediator agents, and collection interface agents. Complex tasks are
accomplished by teams of specialized agents working together-for
example, by interleaving various types of search. The UMDL is being
deployed in three arenas: secondary-school science classrooms, the
University of Michigan library, and space-science laboratories. The
development team expects the scale and diversity of the project to test
their technical ideas about distributed agents, interoperability,
mediation, and economical resource allocation
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