Intelligent agents is a powerful Artificial Intelligence technology which shows considerable promise as a new paradigm for mainstream software development. However, despite their promise, intelligent agents are still scarce in the market place. A key reason for this is that developing intelligent agent software requires significant training and skill: a typical developer or undergraduate strugg...

In our paper, we consider the application of Intelligent Agents in supporting the operations in an Internet-based store (estore). We consider and discuss different opportunities for employing Intelligent Agents to improve the performance of an estore's operations, including sales, forecasting demand and supporting order fulfillment. We provide a framework for the application of such agents, sho...

Information gathering on the Internet is a time consuming and somewhat tedious experience. The main method for gathering information on the Internet at present is the search engine. Literature reviewed indicates that Intelligent Information Agents can improve the process of gathering information on the Internet. However, such agents are not widely used at present. This research reviews several ...

Pedagogical agents have made significant strides over the past few years as a new species of learning technologies. This paper is a review on the current state of the art in pedagogical agents, believability and human-likeness, and instructional affordance of the autonomous agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. It reviews the challenges that concern pedagogical agents, and proposes research a...

The Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive Agents, part of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), presented state-of-the-art approaches, ideas, and methodologies for research and development of intelligent adaptive agents. The workshop consisted of two invited talks, presented by Brian Gaines and Barbara Hayes-Roth; four discussion sessions, organized and chaired by ...

Explanation is an important capability for usable intelligent systems, including intelligent agents and cognitive models embedded within simulations and other decision support systems. Explanation facilities help users understand how and why an intelligent system possesses a given structure and set of behaviors. Prior research has resulted in a number of approaches to providing explanation capa...

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Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs) are software agents which have educational purposes. They are able to communicate, cooperate, discuss, and guide other students or agents. Some studies conclude that if agents look like and interact as humans, they will enhance the learning process and the motivation of the students. This paper presents a proposal to add Semantic Web Knowledge to Intelligen...

Human beings have the real intelligence. The intelligence triggers new thoughts in mind. Human thoughts so many things but he may take long times to solve a complex problem. If he builds such a system which work as like human intelligence, then the time taken to solve the complex problem may be very less. In this case he provides the Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the system. Artificial intell...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Modeling and simulation, intelligent software agents, and other technologies can support network-centric distributed tracking. These technologies came together in the Knowledge Management for Distributed Tracking (KMDT) research and development program to improve naval command, control, and decision support. The program's approach is based...