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Information Environments for Software Agents

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For biological agents, the perceived world does not consist of other agents only. Also software agents can have a shared world model they operate on. In this paper we discuss information systems as an important part of software agents’ environment and try to identify the corresponding demands, leading us to build an information system for software agents on top of a conventional database. Thus we were able to add “agentified” access to the advantages of current information systems like reliability and speed.

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  1. University of Dortmund, Artificial Intelligence Unit, Dortmund

    Stefan Haustein

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  1. Institut für Informatik III, Universität Bonn, Römerstraße 164, D-53117, Bonn, Germany

    Wolfram Burgard  & Armin B. Cremers  & 

  2. GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Schloß Birlinghoven, D-53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Thomas Cristaller

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Haustein, S. (1999). Information Environments for Software Agents. In: Burgard, W., Cremers, A.B., Cristaller, T. (eds) KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1701. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48238-5_26

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