Next Monday's papers.

Gary Noel Boone (gboone@cc.gatech.edu)
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 17:59:48 -0500 (EST)

For next week's discussion of Agents, let's focus our discussion on three
articles from last December's IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems & Their
Applications Special Issue on Intelligent Agents. I chose these articles
for the following reasons: The first paper captures the hype and demand
for agents. The second is a reasonable critique of the approach. The third
offers a number of definitions and techniques. Do these papers all agree
about what an agent is? Is 'agent' well-defined technically, or just
another Holy Grail?

IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems & Their Applications Special Issue on
Intelligent Agents, Volume 1, Number 6. Published by the IEEE Computer
Society.

Sara Hedberg. Agents for Sale: First Wave of Intelligent Agents Go
Commercial, pp. 16--19.

Charles Petrie. Agent-based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence, pp.
24--29.

Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Mike Williamson, and Dajun
Zeng. Distributed Intelligent Agents, pp. 36--45.

These papers are stapled together in a box outside Gregory's door.
See you next Monday at 4:30 in CoC 102.

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Gary N. Boone gboone@cc.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech www.cc.gatech.edu/~gboone