CHAPTER 2:INTELLIGENT AGENTS
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is an Agent?
agents is they are autonomous :https://www.doczj.com/doc/2a5186186.html,puter system capable of in some environment,in delegated goals .
as being in a close-coupled,with its environment:
–act –sense –decide ···
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and Environment
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(Uninteresting)Agents
maintain room temperature on/off
monitor for incoming email and actions.
the decision making they do is 3
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Intelligent Agents
intelligent agent as exhibiting 34
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Reactivity
environment is guaranteed to be ?xed,execute blindly.
like that:most environments are build for dynamic domains:into account possibility of failure —worth executing!
one that maintains an ongoing environment,and responds to it (in time for the response to be 5
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Proactiveness
environment is easy (e.g.,stimulus →agents to do things for us .
behaviour .
generating and attempting to driven solely by events;taking the opportunities.
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Social Ability
multi-agent environment:we attempting to achieve goals without account.
be achieved by interacting with computer environments:witness 7
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Ability:Cooperation
working together as a team to achieve by the fact that no one agent alone,or that cooperation will (e.g.,get result faster).
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Ability:Coordination
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Ability:Negotiation
ability to reach agreements on interest .
have one TV in your house;you movie,your housemate wants to watch football tonight,and a movie and counter-offer,with by participants.
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Other Properties...
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and Objects objects by another name?state;message passing;corresponding to operations that may this state.
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between Agents &Objects autonomous :stronger notion of autonomy than particular,they decide for themselves perform an action on request from (reactive,pro-active,social)model has nothing to say about behavior;providers.
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do it for free...
they want to;.
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Expert Systems
expert systems by another name?
typically disembodied ‘expertise’domain of discourse.
knows about blood diseases in knowledge about blood diseases,in expert advice about blood MYCIN facts,answering questions,16
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Agents &Expert Systems
an environment :the world —only information the user questions.
operate on patients.
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Agents and AI
AI project?what AI is all about?
systems that can (ultimately)language,recognise and use common sense,think which are very hard.solve all of AI
to build an
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agent,we simply want a system right action to perform,typically in solve all the problems of AI
to build
intelligence goes a long way!
speaking about the commercial ,Inc:
agents dumber and dumber and ?nally they made money.
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