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Information Personae

An Information Persona (IP) is best described as a set of tools and interfaces for the dynamic construction, distribution, querying, and rendering of an "embodied" collection of information. The IP can be broken down into several components, which collectively provide the sets of tools and interfaces for community members. These components will handle three tasks: 1) content management; 2) mobile agent brokering; and 3) dynamic view generation. The IP bypasses traditional notions of client and servers, by containing the capabilities of both, allowing for decentralization of computing resources via mobile or transportable agents, a convenient paradigm for distributed computing since they hide the communication channels but not the computational location (Gray, 1995; Harker, 1995). Through this architecture, powerful content-centered communities can form, providing a dynamic infrastructure which facilitates collaboration and communication.

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