Another will be populated by software agents racing about gathering information and negotiating contracts.
"These systems are going to consist of collections of interactive, semi-autonomous programs...something like software agents that collaborate with each other, " says Kephart.
Cars will book themselves in for servicing, hospitals will consult online diaries before scheduling an appointment, and fishing boats will sell their catch at market before reaching port, all thanks to these software agents.
The founder of the company, Mounir Shita, envisions a network of connected devices that use so-called smart software agents to track your friends, suggest food at a restaurant and even find someone to paint your house.
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Grady's company, Rearden Commerce, aims to strip out the waste and inconvenience of corporate spending using software agents capable of traversing the Internet to negotiate deals that take into account both an employee's personal tastes and the company's purchasing rules.
He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.
Then we'll turn that into software-based agents, and then we'll run our battle plans against these software-based agents.
Eventually the Feds issued him with a laptop with monitoring software that allowed agents to watch his collaborations with other hackers, 24 hours a day.
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Nor are there enough computers and software tripwires and human agents to deal with this level of complexity.
General Magic's latest offer for creating agents is a software package called Tabriz.
Word-spotting software allows managers to monitor agents much more closely.
The software is a framework for online "agents" that goes by the name e-speak.
The company wants to have "trusted agents"--bits of software that communicate with Cisco wares--inside other firms' products.
This attempt to monopolise both hardware and software has stymied the growth of firms that might have developed commercial agents.
Agents that speak its language derive their power collaboratively, using software that resides across a range of computers, creating a giant conversation that could span the globe.
That is what happens at call centres, where agents handle everything from late credit-card payments to complaints about software.
Dowling said Pure Networks is sharing its APIs with partners like AOL and D-Link so they can write both agents and applications that leverage the Network Magic platform to the enhance the value of their hardware and software offerings.
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