With the advent of modern communication systems, users often face a dramatic change of their working behavior. Today the question isn't anymore if some kind of information is available somewhere or if a communication partner can be reached online but rather where the information is stored or where the partner is located. A lot of time is spent with browsing, searching, sorting and filtering of information. It is commonly believed that intelligent and personalized software agents are a way for solving the resulting problems and making daily work more efficient. Agents are proactive, personalized, adaptive and autonomous software entities that work at request of their user, take the initiative and submit intelligent proposals for problem solving. Especially in environments with a lot of cooperation between participants their agents need to cooperate themselves. In order to facilitate the cooperation and ease the design and implementation of single agents, a common environment for collaboration and coordination as proposed within our project would obviously be helpful. Solutions to common tasks should be delivered by the infrastructure instead of being reinvented within each agent.
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