A Technology and Business Application Analysis . Technical report, University of Nancy, 1996. 2.3 Agent Classification There are essentially six types of agents being developed. 2.3.1 Collaborative Agents Goals of collaborative agents are similar to goals of distributed artificial intelligence. The aim is to exploit distributed resources and thus make an agent more useful.
Collaborative agents cooperate with other agents autonomously to carry out tasks for the user.
Later , we discuss the requirements and architecture of an example system. 3.1 Attributes As mentioned in Section 2, certain attributes are characteristic of an agent. The agent should operate without the direct intervention of humans and should have some kind of control over its actions. The user should be able to delegate certain tasks to the agent and it should carry them out without the user s cooperation. K. Heilmann, D. Kihanya, A. Light, and P. Musembwa.