Intelligent Agents and Environment

Alfredo Garro, Alberto Falcone, Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Federico Bergenti, Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini, Giuseppe Vizzari

June 2025

This chapter aims to provide a panorama on the fundamentals related to Agents. Specifically, the most popular definitions behind the concept of Intelligent Agents and the main properties that characterize an agent are discussed along with different agent-based models. Furthermore, the concepts of Environment as well as its properties and the role that it plays in the context of the agent paradigm is presented. Actions and Interactions among agents and environment are also discussed before contextualizing the role of Intelligent Agents in the Computational Biology domain.

keywords Artificial systems, Autonomy cooperation, Biological systems, Environment, Intelligent agent, Natural systems

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