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This paper describes an architecture for digital libraries that introduces the notion ofagent services. Agents are a powerful abstraction through which users may interact with a complex data universe by delegating tasks involving objects or events of interest. In the proposed architecture, termedAGS, providers of information define agent services to which patrons may subscribe. On the server side,...