Selecting information for ad hoc exchange
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDouglas W. McDavid, Hovey R. Strong
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Abstract
A method for organizing an exchange of information between software agents includes for each of the software agents: establishing a semantic information network; receiving a trigger signal; performing a search of the semantic information network; and performing actions related to the trigger signal. A system and a computer program product for implementing the method are provided.
Claims16
A method for organizing an exchange of information between software agents, the method for each software agent comprising:
- establishing a semantic information network;
- receiving a trigger signal;
- performing a search of the semantic information network;
- and
- performing actions related to the trigger signal.
A system for organizing the exchange of information between software agents, the system comprising:
- an ad hoc communications network for communicating between a plurality of communication devices;
- and
- the plurality of communication devices, the plurality of communication devices comprising the software agents for establishing an information database in each of the software agents, receiving a trigger signal, searching the information database in each of the software agents, and performing actions related to the trigger signal.
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