nferencing
process.</p>     
      <p>Cycorp has cooperated with the Computer Science Department of the
University of Maryland in  Baltimore County (<a
 href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/" target="external">UMBC</a>) to develop a demo of such a  distributed
architecture.  In the demo, three Cyc agents communicate with each other
using KQML.   While all three agents possess the same core knowledge base,
each possesses additional knowledge  about an additional domain in which
it is considered to be an expert: the 