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Foil 15 Unifying Role of Agents

From Televirtual Environments -- Technologies and Application SC95 Tutorial on Web Technologies -- December 4,95. by NPAC Team * See also color IMAGE

VRML/VAG/VRML+ current concepts share many aspects with agents technology.
  • We could call VRML 2.0 Behavior node an Agent
  • and we could implement scalable multiservers in terms of a mesh of multithreded servers/interpreters of an agent language such as in the Telescript model.
Eventually, intelligent agents will populate/inhabit Cyberspace and will hopefully be useful and friendly to their human ancestors
In the near term, dumb agents will be crucial for testing TVR environments (as we can't commit and coordinate N>>1 humans to patiently test flaky software).
Variable grain size agents also offer a useful interpolating paradigm that integrates collaboration, information and high performance computing.



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