The SodaBot System
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The Philosophy:
Software agents should be written using a vocabulary not provided by
traditional programming languages --- it should be possible to create
agents solely by specifying their abstract behavior.

The Application:
We introduce SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent
user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the
basic software agent --- a computational framework for building agents
which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new
language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are
designed around human-level descriptions of agent activity. Via this
programming language, users can easily implement a wide-range of
typical software agent applications, e.g.  personal on-line assistants
and meeting scheduling agents.