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Linking humans and intelligent systems or: What are user agents good for?

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Thanks to rapid improvements in computer and communication technology the network of national and international business relationships is becoming more and more dense. Future generations of information processing systems will involve a large number of both humans and machine systems to solve complex tasks. Cooperation and collaboration are inherent characteristics within the problem solving process. Intelligent cooperation mechanisms are a necessary prerequisite for efficient cooperation. This paper addresses the integration of humans and machine systems in a general multi-agent framework to cooperate with each other. The integration is accomplished by the concept of user agents which build the interface to humans on one hand and to intelligent information systems on the other.

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    Andreas Lux & Michael Kolb

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Lux, A., Kolb, M. (1993). Linking humans and intelligent systems or: What are user agents good for?. In: Jürgen Ohlbach, H. (eds) GWAI-92: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0019020

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