Intelligent Software Agents Intelligent Software Agents Overview Agents are autonomous software components that perform tasks on behalf of a user or other agent.
Intelligent agents are agents that incorporate some reasoning or planning.
Agents can be viewed as a model for distributed intelligence or a new model for developing software to interact over a network. This subject will give an overview of current research into agents and will look at agent theories, architectures, languages, and applications. Relevant DAI topics. An Overview Knowledge Engineering Review Journal, 1996. This influential paper is one of the most often referenced papers in the area.