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James Odell
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1. Modeling Agents and their Environment: Part II
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| As discussed in Part I of this paper, agents need to operate and exist within an environment. For example, a Stock agent can receive an event indicating that quantities of a particular part are low. The agent then decides whether more parts need to be ordered and, if so, put out a general call-for-proposal so that interested vendors can reply. When proposals arrive, the Stock agent will choose and notify the winning vendor. |
2. Modeling Agents and their Environment: Part III
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| An agent's environment - physical (Part I) or social (Part II - must occupy both space and time. Agent populations abide and interact, their processes occur, and their environmental principles are defined over that same temporal space. Agent space and time involves the notion of agent place, along with two of its primary attributes: extent, and locality. |
3. A Proposed Metamodel for Agents, Roles, and Groups
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| Societies need to employ patterned behaviour to exist. The behaviour of each individual is determined to a great extent by the requirements of these patterns [Katz, 1978]. However, the current practice of Multi-Agent System (MAS) design tends to be limited to individual agents and small face-to-face groups of agents that operate as closed systems. |
4. What are Agents?
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| Many companies are now building agent-based systems. These systems employ agents that can distribute functionality across a vast computing network. Furthermore, agents can not only adapt to their environment but can also evolve by learning from the environment. In short, they are the ultimate in distributed computing. Such an approach prepares enterprises for an increasingly complex marketplace and enables them to respond rapidly to change. |
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