This paper addresses the role and the advantages of mobile agents in the world of computing and describes the Multimedia Transportable Agent System, a prototype we are currently developing. The main goals of the system are to provide support for agent-based applications and to combine the multimedia and the agent technologies: mobile agents can travel and execute on different nodes along the ne...

HelpDesk is a collective of agents which interact to reduce the workload of expert system users by retaining critical information provided by the expert to naive users. Techniques found in the eld of natural language processing are utilized to perform information extraction from free form text, and information retrieval of retained knowledge.

Modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems comprise variety of industrial equipment such as physical control processes, logical control systems, communication networks, computers, and communication protocols. They are concerned with control and supervision of production control processes. Modern SCADA networks contain highly distributed information, control, and location. M...

sialography is the retrograde injection of an iodinated contrast agent into the ductal system of salivary glands and this technique is the only method capable of adequately demonstrating the status of the ductal system. one of the indications of sialography is classification of the salivary ductal system fistulae. this classification has important prognostic and therapeutic values. in the prese...