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An Adaptive, Maintainable, Extensible Process Agent

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1999)

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Intelligent agents should be autonomous, cooperative and adaptive. An intelligent multi-agent architecture for business process applications also supports maintenance and extensibility. Agent adaptivity is based on observations of the agent’s environment, of the results of previous agent decisions, and of estimated reasons for those results being what they were. Maintainability enables agents to do things that are both correct and politically astute. Extensibility enables the agents to develop ways for doing new things. Agent autonomy and cooperation are achieved by building the architecture on a three-layer BDI, hybrid, multi-agent architecture.

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  1. School of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, NSW, 2007, Australia

    John Debenham

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L49 3BX, UK

    Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon

  2. Department of Systems and Computers, University of Florence, Via S. Marta, 3, I-50139, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Soda

  3. IFS, Technical University of Vienna, Resselgasse 3, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

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Debenham, J. (1999). An Adaptive, Maintainable, Extensible Process Agent. In: Bench-Capon, T.J., Soda, G., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1677. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48309-8_59

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