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Floyd, A Global Network of Communicating Agents

Nelson Minar
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Thu Dec 14 16:41:36 MST 1995

Abstract:

Floyd is a software agent that lives in the virtual environment of ccr. He is designed to work in cooperation with other Floyds living on other worlds: the entire distributed network of agents is a communication layer upon which queries can be broadcast and replies collected. Floyd's major functions are finding out about the existence of other Floyds, discovering which Floyds are currently running, and discovering where particular people have been seen. The code for Floyd is written in Perl and is based on a set of reusable libraries for writing ccr XProcs. Floyd's distribution home is http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/cs591-2archive/floyd/; full install instructions and source code can be found there.





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