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| Agent definition by Jennings 1995 |
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An agent is a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable of flexible, autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its design objectives.
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| Agent definition by Russel and Norvig 1995 - "AI definition" |
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anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators
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| Intelligent agent definition by Russel and Norvig 1995 |
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Any agent that embodies some AI technique
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| Agents definition by Maes 1995 |
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computational systems that inhabit some complex dynamic environment, sense and act autonomously in this environment, and by doing so realise a set of goals or tasks for which they are designed
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| Agent definition by Shoham 1993, "mental entities" |
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An agent is an entity whose state is viewed as consisting of mental components such as beliefs, capabilities, choices, and commitments. These components are defined in a precise fashion, and stand in rough correspondence to their common sense counterparts.
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| Notion of "weak agency" by Wooldridge and Jennings 1995 |
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autonomy, social ability, reactivity, pro-activity
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