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Agent-based engineering, the Web, and intelligence

C.I. Petrie
- 01 Dec 1996 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 6, pp 24-29
TLDR
The author surveys the types and definitions of agents, eventually focusing on those useful for engineering, and on how they can be integrated with the World Wide Web.
Abstract: 
Web based agents show great potential for design and engineering applications. To integrate engineering agents into the Web, researchers must resolve the conflict between HTTP's client server protocol and the peer to peer protocol required by agents. The author surveys the types and definitions of agents, eventually focusing on those useful for engineering, and on how they can be integrated with the World Wide Web. Because it is simply silly to discuss software agents without distinguishing them from other types of software, the author ventures to offer a definition. It will be iconoclastic and perhaps applicable only to a certain type of engineering agent. But it will be useful in identifying some technical implementation issues.

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Toward a more robust theory and measure of social presence: review and suggested criteria

Frank Biocca, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2003 - 
TL;DR: A set of criteria and scope conditions are proposed to help remedy limitations in past theories and measures and to provide a contribution to a more robust theory and measure of social presence.
Book

An introduction to software agents

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
TL;DR: The concept of software agents has been studied for centuries as mentioned in this paper, but it is only with the development of computers and control theory since World War II that anything resembling autonomous agents has begun to appear.
Patent

Cooperative system for measuring electronic media

John S. Houston
TL;DR: In this article, a cooperative electronic media measurement system is disclosed which uses media handlers to obtain information from, or otherwise obtain information about, presented media objects, including identification tags, if present, for collection by research data collection agents and subsequent dispatch to a centralized media research controller.
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Semantics for an agent communication language

Yannis Labrou, +1 more
TL;DR: The research presented here finalizes the specification of KQML and provides semantics for the language, and offers the research community a completely defined communication language that can be used for knowledge exchange between software agents.

Criteria And Scope Conditions For A Theory And Measure Of Social Presence

Frank Biocca, +3 more
TL;DR: A set of criteria and scope conditions is proposed to address weaknesses in past theories and measures and to provide clear criteria for a measurement theory of social presence.
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Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice

Michael Wooldridge, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1995 - 
TL;DR: Agent theory is concerned with the question of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for representing and reasoning about the properties of agents as discussed by the authors ; agent architectures can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; and agent languages are software systems for programming and experimenting with agents.
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Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents

Stan Franklin, +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program, and offers the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents.
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Software agents

Michael R. Genesereth, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1994 - 
TL;DR: In this approach to software development, application programs are written as software agents, i.e. software “components” that communicate with their peers by exchanging messages in an expressive agent communication language.
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PACT: an experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems

Mark R. Cutkosky, +7 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
TL;DR: The Palo Alto Collaborative Testbed (PACT) as mentioned in this paper is a concurrent engineering infrastructure that encompasses multiple sites, subsystems, and disciplines, including NVisage, a distributed knowledge-based integration environment for design tools; DME (Device Modeling Environment), a model formulation and simulation environment; Next-Cut, a mechanical design and process planning system; and Designworld, a digital electronics design, simulation, assembly, and testing system.
Proceedings Article

Knowledge interchange format

Michael R. Genesereth
TL;DR: This document contains a guide to writing knowledge in SUO-KIF as well as a more formal reference, which is a good compromise between the computational demands of reasoning and richness of representation.