The Virtual Secretary 2 project (ViSe2) focuses on the construction of a multi-agent cooperation system. As a research vehicle, we have chosen to build intelligent agents that perform secretarial tasks for their users either by themselves or via cooperation. An individual ViSe2 agent has limited knowledge and problem-solving capabilities. To act better for its user, the agent interacts with oth...

A cooperative intelligent agent is a user's personal consultant that takes care of problems the user got, and solve them either by itself or through cooperation. To construct a suitable organization structure which allows individual agents to easily reason about the others' activities, and thus nd the peers, is a key issue for e cient cooperation. In this paper, we suggest an activity-oriented ...

The Virtual Secretary 2 project (ViSe2) focuses on the construction of a multi-agent cooperation model. As a research vehicle, we have chosen to build intelligent agents that perform secretarial tasks for their users either by themselves or via cooperation. An individual ViSe2 agent has limited knowledge and problem solving capabilities. To act better on its user, the agent could interact with ...

The Virtual Secretary (ViSe) is a kind of intelligent agent that could assist its user in major secretarial work. Users give the orders of what to do, while agents figure out how to do and carry out the tasks. This paper presents the ViSe agents in two aspects: (1) construct individual agent on three intelligence levels: knowledge-base level, learning level and cooperation level; and (2) to mod...

The Virtual Secretary (ViSe) is a kind of intelligent agent that could assist its user in major secretarial work. Users give the orders of what to do, while agents gure out how to do and carry out the tasks. This paper presents the ViSe agents in two aspects: (1) to construct individual agent on three intelligence levels: knowledge-base level, learning level and cooperation level; and (2) to mo...

ViSe2 agents are intelligent software agents that can solve users' problems either by themselves or through cooperation. In a cooperative multi-agent paradigm, how smart an agent is depends on both its local reasoning capability, and its social ability to e ciently seek assistance. This paper focuses on applying a twin-base agent modeling technique for agents to capture and reason the activitie...

We are investigating the cooperative behavior of intelligent agents in a large group. A cooperative intelligent agent is a user's personal consultant that can take care of problems the user got, and solve them either by itself or via cooperation. We have proposed a twin-base (cooperator-base U task-base) agent modeling technique for individual agents to monitor activities of the others in order...

The Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market is a well known agent based model. A new revision of the code (ASM 2.2) is now available. This essay describes some of the changes that were made in the code base and also presents some important lessons for agent based modelers that can be illustrated with the code. Since the code is available on the internet, it is hoped that this discussion and the code b...

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