1. Intelligent (mostly) Agents

2. Agency Intermediary between two parties
Entity interacting with the world (or environment)
Degree of independence

3. Parts
Sensors
Effectors
Control
The environment

4. Common Examples
Web spiders
Robots
Game AI

5. Examples from the text Interface agents Virtual character agents
Entertainment
Game
Chat bots
Mobile
User assistance
Hybrid

6. Agent properties Rational Autonomous Persistent Communicative
Cooperative
Mobile
Adaptive

7. Environment Properties
Observable
Deterministic/stochastic
Static/dynamic
Episodic
Multi-agent
Continuous/discrete

8. Agent Architectures Reactive – simple stimulus-response Deliberative
Blackboard
Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI)
Swarm
Ant

9. Well known architectures
Subsumption
Behavior network
Atlantis (deliberative)

18. Platforms
JADE
WADE
Mason