… are thus taking agent technology seriously: our aim in this paper is to survey what we perceive
to be the most important issues in the design and construction of intelligent agents, of the …

… The desire to create life in our own image and to construct intelligent agents that think like
people has held us in thrall since the beginnings of civilization. Progress in this area has been …

… Before providing some background of the research on intelligent agent design, we shall
briefly comment on the term agent. The term is used to characterize very different kinds of …

… consider an agent to be intelligent? The question, like the question what is intelligence?
itself, is not an easy one to answer. But for the purposes of this chapter, an intelligent agent is …

… agent research and development community as its three predecessors have proved to be.
We believe that ATAL and the Intelligent Agents … between the theory and practice of agents. …

… intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, presents a definition of agents
and intelligent agents. … discuss four major approaches to building agents. First, logic based …

… topics in intelligent agent systems, namely agent architectures, formal theories of rationality,
and cooperation and collaboration. Among the topics addressed are software agents, BDI …

… an overview of agents, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, … intelligent agents to do
things for us, goal-directed behavior is needed. In a changed environment, intelligent agents …

… theory and practice of intelligent agents. This article also includes a glossary of the most
important terms used in this new area, an annotated list of some key systems, and an extensive …

… This paper presents a case study in analyzing and understanding intelligent agent systems.
This case is PROforma, an agent language and technology which has developed out of …