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(Andrew Barto, Rod Grupen, Victor Lesser, Sridhar Mahadevan, Lee Osterweil, Shlomo Zilberstein) Agents are autonomous, heterogeneous, persistent, computing entities that interact with the environment through sensing and effecting, and communicate and...
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(Andrew Barto, Rod Grupen, Victor Lesser, Sridhar Mahadevan, Lee Osterweil, Shlomo Zilberstein) Agents are autonomous, heterogeneous, persistent, computing entities that interact with the environment through sensing and effecting, and communicate and coordinate their operation with other agents. Agents must cope with limited computational resources, uncertainty and limited knowledge of the environment. Agents can perform tasks locally if they have sufficient knowledge and resources, and they can interact with other agents to help in the completion of tasks. We study how to design agents and societies of agents, and how to monitor and control their operation. We approach the problem from a variety of perspectives that include cognitive science, decision-theory, game-theory, heuristic search, machine learning and software-engineering. Target applications include factory optimization, perception, robotics, situation assessment, e-commerce, and information retrieval and gathering. See less 
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