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Agent architecture as object oriented design

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Intelligent Agents IV Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL 1997)

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Improving the development of agent intelligence requires improving the mechanisms of that development. This paper explores the application of an established software methodology, object-oriented design, to agent development in two ways. We present a distributed agent architecture, Edmund, and describe first its own object-oriented structure. Then we relate the methodology for developing agent behaviors under Edmund. We explain how this methodology exploits key aspects of object-oriented design, particularly the development of the class hierarchy, as a prototype for agent design.

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  1. Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Intelligent Systems, Edinburgh University, EH8 9JZ, Edinburgh, UK

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Bryson, J., McGonigle, B. (1998). Agent architecture as object oriented design. In: Singh, M.P., Rao, A., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Intelligent Agents IV Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026747

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