Software Agents

For a discussion of what constitutes a software agent see

Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents (with Art Graesser) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, published as Intelligent Agents III, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 21-35.

To read about a working software agent see

SUMPY: A Fuzzy Software Agent (with Hongjun Song and Aregahegn Negatu), ed. F. C. Harris, Jr., Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the ISCA 5th International Conference, (Reno Nevada, June 1996) Raleigh NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications - ISCA, 124-129.

To read about an ongoing project to build a more sophisticated software agent see

Virtual Mattie: an Intelligent Clerical Agent (with Art Graesser, Brent Olde, Hongjun Song, and Aregahegn Negatu)

For mor details on VMattie's perceptual appratus see

Natural Language Sensing for Autonomous Agents (with Zhaohua Zhang, Brent Olde, Art Graesser, and Yun Wan), INTERNATIONAL IEEE JOINT SYMPOSIA on INTELLIGENCE and SYSTEMS, to appear.

For a description of VMattie's action selection mechanism see

Action Selection Using Behavior Instantiation (with Hongjun Song)

For an entertaining idea piece concerning design of multi-agent systems, among other things, see

Coordination without Communication

For a proposal of a synergistic research strategy using autonomous agents, see

Autonomous Agents as Embodied AI, Appeard in Cybernetics and Systems, 28:6(1997) 499-520, special issue on Epistomological Issues in Embedded AI

Author: Stan Franklin

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Last Updated: Monday, May 5, 1998