Niek Wijngaards
Frances Brazier
580 California St., Suite 400
San Francisco, CA, 94104
Automated (Re-)Design of Software Agents
2002, Artificial Intelligence in Design ’02
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0795-4_24
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Abstract
Autonomous software agents are dynamic entitities: they are capable of discovering a need for change -for additional knowledge and/or functionality on the basis of their analysis of specific situations. Agent factories are capable of redesigning and reactivating agents on the basis of the information provided by agents and/or knowledge available within the agent factories. As a result agents may evolve in ways their designers could never have pre-conceived. The artefacts themselves are dynamic in a way that can not be compared to any other type of design in current design practice. A number of prototype agents and agent factories have been built to evaluate the feasibility of this concept and its consequences.
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