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The term agent derives from the latin participle agens, coming from the verb agere that means to do and denotes the capability of an entity to do or to act. But in practice the term refers to multiple meanings in different contexts, like a human agent, a hardware agent, a chemical agent, etc. In this book we are interested in the concept of autonomous agents, and for that purpose one of the classical and simple definitions comes from Russell and Norvig (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2014, [21]) and states that: an agent is any entity that can perceive its environment through sensors and change it by means of actuators.
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Burguillo, J.C. (2018). Multi-agent Systems. In: Self-organizing Coalitions for Managing Complexity. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69898-4_5
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