Using Via, IS Managers and developers can begin taking advantage of intelligent agents immediately to improve business processes and create new processes. Via represents a comprehensive agent solution for addressing IS managers' deployment concerns including managing system-wide connectivity, minimizing initial investment, keeping maintenance and costs down, security and scaleability. Via's agents draw information from environments. Stimuli and Senses.
Stimuli are environmental events that are monitored by an agent's senses.
Senses can monitor several kinds of stimuli such as incoming information, changes in data, or the qualities of particular data. Reasoning is used by Via agents for evaluating and reacting to stimuli. The Via system abstracts the intelligence or reasoning of an agent from the tasks of the agent so that the most appropriate knowledge system for a specific task can be used. Certain agents might require a neural network or a knowledgebase of intelligence to accomplish their task, while other agents are better suited to simple stimulus-response logic. Any knowledge format that can be modeled in Java can be used in the Via System.