February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
The concept of an agent comes from the artificial intelligence field and is used to designate anything that makes decisions. Well, that is, it is what a typical computer program does with the conditional instructions of the if ... then ... else ... type. Put simply, an agent is a program that can take more elaborated decisions rather than using pure conditionals. For example, consider a video game: when you play against a machine, your opponent observes your actions and decides what to do next to win the game. What powers the opponent's decisions is an agent. Generalizing this idea, an agent can be used to solve many kinds of problems; for example, when to stop and start a heater to keep ...
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