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The paper presents an approach to building multi-agent systems. We are interested in complex agents able to reason about their tasks, and to display a proactive behavior, when installed on a network of heterogeneous computers. We developed the concept of a generic agent (GAg), equipped with the basic communication and ”mental” structure, but ignorant, i.e., not containing any application expertise, nor having any knowledge about the external world. When building an application, actual agents are cloned from the generic agent. In addition, a specific environment, OSACA (Open System for Asynchronous Cognitive Agents), simplifies the process of creating agents on a network of heterogeneous machines. The paper discusses mainly the basic structure of the generic agent. Our approach is also illustrated with a small example of an agent which helps writing a technical paper in a research laboratory...
Supported by CAPES/Brazil, grant number 1307/94.
On leave from CEFET-PR, Brazil and supported by CITS/CNPq, grant number 260139/92.
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Scalabrin, E.E., Vandenberghe, L., de Azevedo, H., Barthès, J.P.A. (1996). A generic model of cognitive agent to develop open systems. In: Borges, D.L., Kaestner, C.A.A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SBIA 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61859-7_7
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