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The architecture of a single node of the distributed IRS.

The architecture of a single node of the distributed IRS.

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Software agents have been recognized as one of the main building blocks of the emerging infrastructurefor the Semantic Web, but their relationship with more standard components, such as Web servers andclients, is still not clear. At the server side, a possible role for agents is to enhance the capabilities of serversusing their intelligence to prov...

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... we claim that an adequate mechanism should be designed for integrating agents, as cgi and more recently servlets have been developed to access standard application. The architecture we propose is presented in Figure 5; it extends a Web server with three com- ponents: ...

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