Intelligent Software Agents: COMPSCI 767 Semester 1, City Campus

Intelligent software agents are software systems that are autonomous, cooperative, and adaptive. By autonomous, we mean that they only need to be told "what" to do rather than "how" to do it. By cooperative, we mean that they often pursue their goals through communication with other agents/humans at the Knowledge Level. By adaptive we mean, that they learn to improve their performance through experience and learning. There are beginning to be systems that integrate these three areas.

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