Developing InfoSleuth Agents Using Rosette: An Actor Based Language

The MCC InfoSleuth project [1] [2] is developing an architecture for and prototypes of an agent infrastructure for a variety of applications. The InfoSleuth research is building on the base technology developed in the recently completed MCC Carnot research project. The Carnot project [3] [4] was initiated in 1990 with the goal of addressing the problem of logically unifying physically-distributed, enterprise-wide, heterogeneous information. A prototype has been implemented that provides services for enterprise modeling and model integration to create an enterprise-wide view, semantic expansion of queries on the view to queries on individual resources, and interresource consistency management. The Carnot prototype software has been used by the sponsors of the Carnot project to develop a number of applications. These applications have included workflow management, heterogeneous database access, knowledge discovery in large databases, and integrated access to both text databases and structured databases from a single initial query.