"Weak" vs "Strong" Agents
"Intelligent
Agents: Theory and Practice"
Wooldridge and Jennings
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/ker95.ps
- Weak agents make no commitments except to interactions
- Can use wrappers with legacy code
- Interaction model facilitates system analysis
- Much knowledge implicit in wrapper
- Coordination model is fixed
- Strong agents commit to internal structure; e.g., BDI agents
What's a (Software) Agent?
Agent-Based Engineering,
the Web, and Intelligence
December 1996, IEEE Expert
http://cdr.stanford.edu/NextLink/Expert.html
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