[topicmapmail] Agents and Topic Maps

[Johannes Koppenwallner]

René Schmitt wrote:

>...
>But few thing are not clear.
>How does your agent verbalise itīs objectives?
>It has to communicate with other agents, does it use KIF or other languages?
>
No, it does not use KIF or anything similar. Communication  is done by 
sending simple messages and handle them according to the agents type and 
tasks.

>
>For example:
>Itīs starts to search for DVDīs with Tom Hanks as leading actor in a certain
>environment. In this environment exists a global Topic Map with all
>information
>and resources provided.
>Now the agent has a starting (base) TM in itīs data package.
>How does it tell the server what it searchs for?
>Is the base TM empty and will the agent adds topics and occurrences if some
>fitting sources are found?
>Or is the base TM equal to the global topic map and the agent is restricting
>it
>by using scopes, facets, inference or whatever to determine what data
>is irrelevant and to be deleted?
>
>  
>
In my app, the agents do not access TMs to search for something (on 
behalf of a person), but they are "filling" TMs with occurrences,  if 
you want to search for something (as user), you can access the global TM 
directly.

Johannes