Intelligent agents can exchange information with their environment and with other intelligent agents. By means of the possibility of communication an intelligent agent must obtain information about its environment which enables it to build up its own world model. Moreover the possibility of communication with other intelligent agents is the precondition of common action in pursuit of a goal. As the term Intelligent Agent indicates, behavioural possibilities such as the capacity to learn, logical deduction or construction of an environmental model in order to find one s bearings in an unknown environment and suchlike are required. Spatial mobility Intelligent agents are sometimes required to display spatial mobility.
Spatial mobility is in fact a characteristic of numerous intelligent agents.
On the other hand there are elements in the real world that are not spatially mobile but which one would nonetheless wish to assign to intelligent agents. For this reason spatial mobility in this study will not be considered as one of the necessary attributes of intelligent agents. The Modelling and Simulation of real systems consisting of intelligent agents that cooperate with each other has recently emerged as an important field of research. Systems of this kind can be found in the empirical sciences, in technology and in mathematical theories. The object is to develop inidividual strategies that individual agents pursue and that ensure that a common goal can be achieved even without central regulation.