describing the
project which was presented at the 1995 CIKM conference.  Also see <a
 href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/" target="external">The UMBC KQML Web</a>,
a page at UMBC describing the concept in greater detail.</i></p>
             
      <p>It should also be pointed out that, while the description above
assumes that all the agents participating in the distributed architecture
are Cyc agents, this is not a requirement.  Cycorp has defined a very simple
protocol for implementing cooperative inferenc