Article ID: | iaor20062838 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 166 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 666 |
End Page Number: | 693 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Schleiffer Ralf |
Keywords: | agent technology |
This paper discusses fundamental issues of intelligent agents. Based on a portrayal of agent characteristics a general agent architecture linking aspects of perception, interpretation of natural language, learning and decision-making is provided. Agents built upon this architecture are equipped to handle unknown, open and distributed environments. The paper concludes with a discussion whether or not agents designed in accordance with this architecture exhibit some sort of intelligence.