CoolAgent: Intelligent Digital Assistants for Mobile Professionals - Phase 1 Retrospective

This report summarizes the key goals, vision, and accomplishments of research in HP Laboratories on Assistant and Agent technology for me-centric computing. The primary focus of our work is in the architecture and implementation of intelligent assistants for mobile professionals and me-centric, peer-to-peer computing. We are investigating the possibilities and consequences of agent-mediated interaction between users, appliances, services and information. During 2001, we completed a major release of our JADE and Bluestone based meeting arranger multi-agent prototype, which we call CoolAgent Phase 1. The report summarizes the accomplishments and learnings of our completed CoolAgent partnership release and experiments and demo in the mobile professional, distributed meeting arranger domain.