Beyond the Elves: Making Intelligent Agents Intelligent

Authors

  • Craig A. Knoblock University of Southern California
  • José Luis Ambite Information Sciences Institute
  • Mark James Carman University of Lugano
  • Matthew Michelson University of Southern California
  • Pedro Szekely University of Southern California
  • Rattapoom Tuchinda University of Southern California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v29i2.2129

Abstract

The goal of the Electric Elves project was to develop software agent technology to support human organizations. We developed a variety of applications of the Elves, including scheduling visitors, managing a research group (the Office Elves), and monitoring travel (the Travel Elves). The Travel Elves were eventually deployed at DARPA, where things did not go exactly as planned. In this article, we describe some of the things that went wrong and then present some of the lessons learned and new research that arose from our experience in building the Travel Elves.

Author Biographies

Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern California

Information Sciences Institute Senior Project Leader and Research Professor in Computer Science

José Luis Ambite, Information Sciences Institute

Senior Research Scientist

Mark James Carman, University of Lugano

Informatics Faculty Postdoctoral Researcher

Matthew Michelson, University of Southern California

Computer Science Department Ph.D. Student

Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California

Computer Science Department Research Assistant Professor

Rattapoom Tuchinda, University of Southern California

Computer Science Department Ph.D. Student

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Published

2008-07-10

How to Cite

Knoblock, C. A., Ambite, J. L., Carman, M. J., Michelson, M., Szekely, P., & Tuchinda, R. (2008). Beyond the Elves: Making Intelligent Agents Intelligent. AI Magazine, 29(2), 33. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v29i2.2129

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