CIA - a collaboration and coordination infrastructure for personal agents (short paper)

Software agents are one of the means to relieve users from searching, sorting and filtering information in their daily work. For fast and efficient implementation of agents there needs to be a powerful infrastructure supporting collaboration and coordination between agents and their users. In this document we propose such an infrastructure where the main focus is on modularity, efficiency, realtime-communication and resilience. Typical scenarios that can efficiently be realized with our system are diary-systems with integrated room-reservation service, team-assembly and workflow systems or even videoconferencing with advanced conference establishment. We introduce the concept of a so called Agent Cluster which contains all personal agents of one user and can be segmented into subclusters. This cluster is build around a software bus and contains many supportive agents for standard tasks. The current status and the on-going development of our project are discussed at the end of the paper.