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The notion of agent is one of the most relevant concepts in computer science, within its sub-disciplines of artificial intelligence and information systems. In this chapter, we introduce the main definitions of the concept in the computer science literature. We mention the idea of individual-based modeling. To better understand the topic, we propose an exploration of a database of academic research articles, with a survey of recent trending topics. Adopting “agent” and “business” as keywords, we consider abstracts of scientific articles from the last 20 years. We also report on a semantic graph analysis performed by us to explore the most frequent co-occurring concepts by using network metrics and clustering.

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Sulis, E., Taveter, K. (2022). Agents and Organization Studies. In: Agent-Based Business Process Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98816-6_3

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