Intelligent (mostly) Agents
Agency Intermediary between two parties Entity interacting with the world (or environment) Degree of independence
Parts Sensors Effectors Control The environment
Common Examples Web spiders Robots Game AI
Examples from the text Interface agents Virtual character agents Entertainment Game Chat bots Mobile User assistance Hybrid
Agent properties Rational Autonomous Persistent Communicative Cooperative Mobile Adaptive
Environment Properties Observable Deterministic/stochastic Static/dynamic Episodic Multi-agent Continuous/discrete
Agent Architectures Reactive – simple stimulus-response Deliberative Blackboard Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Swarm Ant
Well known architectures Subsumption Behavior network Atlantis (deliberative)
Platforms JADE WADE Mason