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An Agents’ Definition Framework and a Methodology for Deriving Agents’ Taxonomies

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This paper presents a proposal for defining software agents and for deriving taxonomies of agents. It also extends [5]. First a theoretical framework is established as foundation giving a new abstract and set-based definition of agents. Based on this definition, a methodology is presented which takes a new approach to derive taxonomies treating software agents.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics and Computing, Cork Institute of Technology, Rossa Avenue, Cork, Ireland

    Silke Höppner

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  1. HITeC e. V. Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg,  

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  3. Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Department Informatik, Universität Hamburg, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Bernd Neumann

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Höppner, S. (2003). An Agents’ Definition Framework and a Methodology for Deriving Agents’ Taxonomies. In: Günter, A., Kruse, R., Neumann, B. (eds) KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39451-8_45

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