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Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems
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Author(s): Uros Krcadinac (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Milan Stankovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Vitomir Kovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) and Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 6
Source title:
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy) and Marco Palma (University of Cassino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch061
ISBN13: 9781599048451
ISBN10: 1599048450
EISBN13: 9781599048468
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Abstract
Since the AAAI (http://www.aaai.org) Spring Symposium in 1994, intelligent software agents and agentbased systems became one of the most significant and exciting areas of research and development (R&D) that inspired many scientific and commercial projects. In a nutshell, an agent is a computer program that is capable of performing a flexible, autonomous action in typically dynamic and unpredictable domains (Luck, McBurney, Shehory, & Willmott, 2005). Agents emerged as a response of the IT research community to the new data-processing requirements that traditional computing models and paradigms were increasingly incapable to deal with (e.g., the huge and ever-increasing quantities of available data). Agent-oriented R&D has its roots in different disciplines. Undoubtedly, the main contribution to the field of autonomous agents came from artificial intelligence (AI) which is focused on building intelligent artifacts; and if these artifacts sense and act in some environment, then they can be considered agents (Russell & Norvig, 1995). Also, object-oriented programming (Booch, 2004), concurrent object-based systems (Agha, Wegner, & Yonezawa, 1993), and human-computer interaction (Maes, 1994) are fields that have constantly driven forward the agent R&D in the last few decades.
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