An Exploratory Study of A Virtual Team in Designing A Multimedia System by Seung Ik Baek, Jay Liebowitz, Srinvas Y. Prasad and Mary J. Granger. Preliminary evaluation results and two working prototypes are presented. An Introduction to Agents by Todd Sundsted discusses how to find what agents are and what they can do for you. Learn how to take the first steps toward building your own simple agent architecture in Java. Lifelike Autonomous Agents by Pattie Maes discusses this relatively new field of Artificial Life and its attempts to study and understand biological life by synthesizing artificial life forms.
Entertainment is niched out as one potential application area.
Astrolog Astrolog - A distributed and dynamic environment for distributed system management by Stephane Billiart, Christine Morin and Akhil Sahai discusses the Astrolab platform that connects heterogeneous workstations and is used for experimenting distributed systems and applications in the context of a research lab. An intelligent agent is software that can take independent actions in the interface on behalf of a user's goals, without explicit intervention by the user. Technology, Ltd discusses the study of autonomous agents and adaptive agents being applied to games such as Creatures, Steel Legions, and Galapagos. This paper describes how autonomous agents are designed and built and communicates the successful application of agents to gaming scenarios. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated.