November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 14m
English
An intelligent agent is an autonomous software process, or one that is able to make decisions and take action without the involvement of a human being. This is something of a loose definition, but developers mostly use the term to specifically refer to agents that run within an agent framework. An intelligent agent is most useful when it is part of a cooperative multi-agent system. With these types of systems, you can break down a problem into much simpler parts and assign agents to each part of the task. Agents sometimes can move from one machine to another within a framework and ...
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