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Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents

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Stan Franklin, Art Graesser
Jörg P. Müller, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings (eds.)
Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, pages 21–35
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1193
Springer
1997

The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program. We also offer the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents, and discuss possibilities for further classification. Finally, we discuss subagents and multiagent systems.

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Event_icon.svg ATAL-96 @ ECAI'96
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Publication_icon.svg Intelligent Agents III (edited volume, 1997) — Jörg P. Müller, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings

Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
— status
published
— sort
paper in proceedings
who
— authors
Stan Franklin  •  Art Graesser
— editors
Jörg P. Müller  •  Michael Wooldridge  •  Nicholas R. Jennings
where & when
— publication date
1997
— volume
Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
— series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
— volume no.
1193
— pages
21–35
— number of pages
15
— publisher
Springer
URL
URL
— DOI
10.1007/BFb0013570
ISBN & ISSN
— ISSN
0302-9743
— E-ISSN
1611-3349
— ISBN
978-3-540-62507-0
— ISBN-10
3-540-62507-0
APICe
— origin event
ATAL-96
— container publication
Intelligent Agents III
notes
— note
ECAI'96 Workshop (ATAL'96) Budapest, Hungary, 12-13 August 1996. Proceedings