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An introduction to agent technology

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Software Agents and Soft Computing Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 1198))

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Intelligent agent technology is a rapidly developing area of research. However, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of work being carried out under the ‘agent’ banner. In this paper, software agent technology is introduced by briefly overviewing the various agent types currently under investigation by researchers.

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Nwana, H.S., Ndumu, D.T. (1997). An introduction to agent technology. In: Nwana, H.S., Azarmi, N. (eds) Software Agents and Soft Computing Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62560-7_35

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