Intelligent Agents and Their Applications

Intelligent Agents and Their Applications

Alexa Heucke, Georg Peters, Roger Tagg
ISBN13: 9781605660264|ISBN10: 1605660264|EISBN13: 9781605660271
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch335
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Heucke, Alexa, et al. "Intelligent Agents and Their Applications." Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 2132-2136. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch335

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Heucke, A., Peters, G., & Tagg, R. (2009). Intelligent Agents and Their Applications. In M. Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition (pp. 2132-2136). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch335

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Heucke, Alexa, Georg Peters, and Roger Tagg. "Intelligent Agents and Their Applications." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., 2132-2136. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch335

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Abstract

An agent, in the traditional use of the word, is a person that acts on behalf of another person or group of persons. In information technology, the term agent is broadly used to describe software that carries out a special range of tasks on behalf of either a human user or other pieces of software. Such a concept is not new in computing. Similar things have been said about subroutines, reusable objects, components, and Web services. So what makes agents more than just another computer technology buzzword and research fashion?

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