J. Mayfield, Y. Labrou, and T. Finin. Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language . Berlin, Germany, 1996. We call our mediated architecture CAFE for Cooperating Agents Find Everything. In CAFE there are application agents and brokers.
Brokers are similar to application agents.
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, and Tim Finin. Evaluating KQML as an Agent Communication Language . Middle agents are advantageous since they allow a system to operate robustly in the face of agent appearance and disappearance, and intermittent communications. Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language . Berlin, Germany, 1996.