If Agentware is the solution, how does it work?

Owner's intent is represented as instructions within the agent's characteristics ...

• mobile
• programmable
• autonomous

Notify me when X=Y (push model)

Find the following information and deliver to me (pull model)

Forward all messages about X or from Y to me (for example my fax, PC, or workstation address).

Characteristics:
Inter-process communications model in Telescript is different to RPCs (and Object stubs) which are rigidly codified in a way that is less flexible than Telescripts are.

Agentware is middleware that replaces a "distributed software" paradigm with a "mobile software" paradigm;

Agentware, a presentation by Dana Moore of AT&T.
dana.moore@worldnet.att.net