The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to
point the reader at what we perceive to be the most important theoretical
and practical issues associated with the design and construction
of intelligent agents. For convenience, we divide these issues into
three areas (though as the reader will see, the divisions are at
times somewhat arbitrary). Agent theory is concerned with the question
of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for representing
and reasoning about the properties of agents. Agent architectures
can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers
in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing
software or hardware systems that will satisfy the properties specified
by agent theorists. Finally, agent languages are software systems
for programming and experimenting with agents; these languages may
embody principles proposed by theorists. The paper is not intended
to serve as a tutorial introduction to all the issues mentioned;
we hope instead simply to identify the most important issues, and
point to work that elaborates on them. The article includes a short
review of current and potential applications of agent technology.
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%1 Wooldridge:1995:ker
%A Wooldridge, Michael
%A Jennings, Nicholas R.
%D 1995
%J Knowledge Engineering Review
%K imported thesis
%N 2
%P 115--152
%R 10.1017/S0269888900008122
%T Intelligent agents: Theory and practice
%V 10
%X The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to
point the reader at what we perceive to be the most important theoretical
and practical issues associated with the design and construction
of intelligent agents. For convenience, we divide these issues into
three areas (though as the reader will see, the divisions are at
times somewhat arbitrary). Agent theory is concerned with the question
of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for representing
and reasoning about the properties of agents. Agent architectures
can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers
in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing
software or hardware systems that will satisfy the properties specified
by agent theorists. Finally, agent languages are software systems
for programming and experimenting with agents; these languages may
embody principles proposed by theorists. The paper is not intended
to serve as a tutorial introduction to all the issues mentioned;
we hope instead simply to identify the most important issues, and
point to work that elaborates on them. The article includes a short
review of current and potential applications of agent technology.
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abstract = {The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to
point the reader at what we perceive to be the most important theoretical
and practical issues associated with the design and construction
of intelligent agents. For convenience, we divide these issues into
three areas (though as the reader will see, the divisions are at
times somewhat arbitrary). Agent theory is concerned with the question
of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for representing
and reasoning about the properties of agents. Agent architectures
can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers
in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing
software or hardware systems that will satisfy the properties specified
by agent theorists. Finally, agent languages are software systems
for programming and experimenting with agents; these languages may
embody principles proposed by theorists. The paper is not intended
to serve as a tutorial introduction to all the issues mentioned;
we hope instead simply to identify the most important issues, and
point to work that elaborates on them. The article includes a short
review of current and potential applications of agent technology.},
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title = {Intelligent agents: Theory and practice},
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