Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence

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Example Applications of DAI

PROVIDING INTELLIGENT ASSISTANCE

IN DISTRIBUTED OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS

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Sergei Nirenburg

Colgate University

Victor

Lesser

University of Massachusetts

Abstract We argue that a task-centered, an

agent-centered and a cognition-oriented perspec-

tive are all needed for providing intelligent assis-

tance in distributed office environments. We

present the architecture for a system called

OFFICE that combines these three perspectives.

We illustrate this architecture through an exam-

ple.

1.

Introduction.

In this paper we describe OFFICE, a system that provides

intelligent assistance in the office environment. A

schemati