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Software agents: an overview

1996 · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 1,591 citations · 2 from inside this corpus

Hyacinth S. Nwana low

Abstract Agent software is a rapidly developing area of research. However, the overuse of the word “agent” has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of research being carried out under this banner. This overview paper presents a typology of agents. Next, it places agents in context, defines them and then goes on, inter alia , to overview critically the rationales, hypotheses, goals, challenges and state-of-the-art demonstrators of the various agent types in our typology. Hence, it attempts to make explicit much of what is usually implicit in the agents literature. It also proceeds to overview some other general issues which pertain to all the types of agents in the typology. This paper largely reviews software agents, and it also contains some strong opinions that are not necessarily widely accepted by the agent community.

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PaperYearCited
Intelligent agents: theory and practice19956,724
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence20055,782
Strips: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving19714,090
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem …19803,711
BDI Agents: From Theory to Practice19952,356
Agents that reduce work and information overload19942,332
Intention is choice with commitment19901,868
Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication19901,681
STRIPS: a new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving19711,487

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Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology20041,745
An Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems20101,383

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Multi-Agent Systems and NegotiationComputer Science
Logic, Reasoning, and KnowledgeComputer Science
Mobile Agent-Based Network ManagementComputer Science

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