Is it an Agent, or just a Program?:A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents Export

@inproceedings{franklin96, abstract = {The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program. We also offer the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents, and discuss possibilities for further classification. Finally, we discuss subagents and multiagent systems.}, author = {Franklin, Stan and Graesser, Art}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages,}, citeulike-article-id = {3878804}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/AgentProg.html}, keywords = {agent, ai, classic, definition}, posted-at = {2009-01-12 18:37:04}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, title = {Is it an Agent, or just a Program?:A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents}, url = {http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/AgentProg.html}, year = {1996} }

TY - CONF ID - franklin96 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3878804 N2 - The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program. We also offer the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents, and discuss possibilities for further classification. Finally, we discuss subagents and multiagent systems. TI - Is it an Agent, or just a Program?:A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents PB - Springer-Verlag T2 - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, KW - agent KW - ai KW - classic KW - definition AU - Franklin, Stan AU - Graesser, Art PY - 1996/// UR - http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/AgentProg.html ER -