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1. Agents for Information sharing
and Coordination
By: Aryan RathoreBy: Aryan Rathore
Software Developer in USASoftware Developer in USA
Head Of Aryan Dell CorporationHead Of Aryan Dell Corporation

2. A series of programs which were intended to
allow unsophisticated computer users to
create their own cooperative work
applications using a set of simple, but
powerful, building blocks.

3. Key design principles
• Semiformal systems
– Don’t build computational agents that try to solve
complex problems all by themselves.
– Instead, build systems where the boundary
between what the agents do and what the
humans do is a flexible one.

4. Key design principles
• Radical tailorability
– Don’t build agents that try to figure out for
themselves things that humans could easily tell
them.
– Instead, try to build systems that make it as easy
as possible for humans to see and modify the
same information and reasoning processes their
agents are using.

5. • Information Lens, the first program in the
series, was a system for intelligent sorting and
processing of electronic mail messages.
• Object Lens and Oval were successor
programs providing much more general and
tailorable environments that extended
beyond the domain of electronic mail filtering.

6. Oval
objects, views, agents, and links
• Objects
By defining and modifying templates for various
semi-structured objects, users can represent
information about people, tasks, products,
messages, and many other kinds of information in
a form that can be processed intelligently by both
people and their computers

7. Oval
objects, views, agents, and links
• Views
By collecting these objects in customizable folders,
users can create their own views which
summarize selected information from the objects.

8. Oval
objects, views, agents, and links
• Agents
By creating semi-autonomous agents, users can
specify rules for automatically processing this
information in different ways at different times.

9. Oval
objects, views, agents, and links
• Links
Finally, links, are used for connecting and relating
different objects”

10. • The authors Malone, Grant, and Lai (1997) describe several
different applications that demonstrate the surprising power
that semiformal information processing can provide to
people, and lend credence to the claim that people without
formal programming skills can be enabled to create agent-
based computing environments that suit their individual
needs.