Agent Working Group, which jointly reports to Electronic Commerce Domain Task Force and Internet Platform SIG, met on Monday and Tuesday afternoon as scheduled. Work items include contributions to a green paper on candidate agent RFPs, a plan to draft an RFI to develop a roadmap for agent related standards, and a mission statement for if we request to upgrade the Agent WG to a platform SIG at the Pennsylvania meeting. See separate Agent WG minutes. The application domain is global and solutions are federated. Most entities speak to a fixed number of other clusters so this does not turn into an N-squared problem.
Clusters are agents that model some supply center.
The ability to do good schedules is NP-complete from an optimization point of view but manageable through the use of naturally occurring hierarchies. Most DoD logistics shops are NT shops or Unix shops, or . The used Voyager to pass semantics and not just data. Clusters are being overlayed via a cost model. Clusters are composed of plugins.