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Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information

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Many real-world problems are solved through the cooperative efforts of multiple problem-solving agents. These agents are often characterized by specific skills or domains of expertise, and are often best situated at distinct, geographically distributed locations. In cases where these skills are related to remotely accessing information, transparency is desirable, such that information consumers need not know either the location of the information or its internal structure. 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 briefly described.

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Laufmann, S.C. (1992). Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information. In: Papazoglou, M.P., Zeleznikow, J. (eds) The Next Generation of Information Systems: From Data to Knowledge. IJCAI 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55616-8_50

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