TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a hierarchical taxonomy of autonomous agents
AU - Tosic, Predrag T.
AU - Agha, Gul A.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Autonomous agents have become an influential and powerful paradigm in a great variety of disciplines, from sociology and economics to distributed artificial intelligence and software engineering to philosophy. Given that the paradigm has been around for awhile, one would expect a broadly agreed-upon, solid understanding of what autonomous agents are and what they are not. This, however, is not the case. We therefore join the ongoing debate on what are the appropriate notions of autonomous agency. We approach agents and agent ontology from a cybernetics and general systems perspective, in contrast to the much more common in the agent literature sociology, anthropology and/or cognitive psychology based approaches. We attempt to identify the most fundamental attributes of autonomous agents, and propose a tentative hierarchy of autonomous agents based on those attributes.
AB - Autonomous agents have become an influential and powerful paradigm in a great variety of disciplines, from sociology and economics to distributed artificial intelligence and software engineering to philosophy. Given that the paradigm has been around for awhile, one would expect a broadly agreed-upon, solid understanding of what autonomous agents are and what they are not. This, however, is not the case. We therefore join the ongoing debate on what are the appropriate notions of autonomous agency. We approach agents and agent ontology from a cybernetics and general systems perspective, in contrast to the much more common in the agent literature sociology, anthropology and/or cognitive psychology based approaches. We attempt to identify the most fundamental attributes of autonomous agents, and propose a tentative hierarchy of autonomous agents based on those attributes.
KW - Intelligent Systems
KW - Intelligent and Soft Computing - Systems and Applications
KW - Smart Agents
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400871
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400871
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:15744391419
SN - 0780385667
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 3421
EP - 3426
BT - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
T2 - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Y2 - 10 October 2004 through 13 October 2004
ER -