- What's an agent?
Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents,
by Stan Franklin and Art Graesser
- Another quite good intro (with lots of good links) on the web is:
Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence,
by Charles J. Petrie
- Also see the pages:
- A gentle introduction to agents and their applications, by Michael Weiss.
- Towards a Standardization of Multi-Agent System Frameworks, by Roberto A. Flores-Mendez.
- A nice survey paper is:
Wooldridge, Michael and Nicholas R. Jennings (1995), "Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: a Survey," in Wooldridge and Jennings Eds., Intelligent Agents, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1-22
http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/dai/pubs/KER95/ or
http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/dai/people/mikew/pubs/ker95/ker95-html.html or
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/ker95/ker95-html.html
or, in postscript:
http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/dai/people/mikew/pubs/ker95.ps or
http://agents.umbc.edu/introduction/ker.ps
- Another good overview paper is:
Jennings, N. R., Sycara, K., and Wooldridge, M., A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development Int Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 1 (1) 7-38, 1998.
ftp://ftp.elec.qmw.ac.uk/pub/isag/distributed-ai/publications/aa-mas.ps.gz
- More specialized, but still a tutorial, is:
- The best web collection of Agent resources is by Tim Finin. It includes an `intro to agents' list similar to this one.