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A Personal Assistant (PA) agent is a software agent capable of helping people to handle tasks in their workplace. The paper proposes a memory mechanism for personal assistant agents in order to enhance agent intelligence while working with the user or with other agents. Inspired by a case memory model in the domain of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), this paper endows PA agents with a case memory mechanism, which results in improved PA agents: MemoPAs. We present the memory mechanism of MemoPA in detail, and report a first implementation of the method. Finally, future work is outlined for improving the memory mechanism.
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Chen, KJ., Barthès, JP. (2007). MemoPA: Intelligent Personal Assistant Agents with a Case Memory Mechanism. In: Huang, DS., Heutte, L., Loog, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. With Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. ICIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4682. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74205-0_139
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