Developers kit for creating intelligent agents that interface to the Web and USENET news services. |
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Platform(s): | AIX, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 |
Date Posted: | 13 September 1996 |
Updated: | 2 July 1997 |
A.B.E. is an agent development kit for building intelligent agents that can interface to the Web or to USENET news services. A.B.E. agents evaluate conditions based on developer-defined rules and then take action based on the results. For example, an agent could be programmed to check a stock price frequently and send a page when the stock price drops. Or, an agent could be used to check inventory and automatically send an e-mail order for a resupply when needed. The development kit comes with a number of pre-built parts which make it easy for you to add agent technology to applications. The RAISE reasoning engine from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Lab is provided as the "brain" for the agent. Several adapters, or interface components, are provided to connect the reasoning engine to the outside world, including an HTTP adapter for connecting ABE agents with the Web and an NNTP adapter for connecting to the Internet news service. A time adapter is also provided to allow agents to perform time-based tasks. In addition to the pre-built parts, programming interfaces and guidelines are provided to allow you to write your own adapters and agent applications using either C++ or Java. Source code for sample adapters and agent applications is also provided. |