Building cognitively rich Agents Using the SIM_AGENT Toolkit

摘要

Synthetic agents with varying degrees of intelligence and autonomy are being designed in many research laboratories. The motivations include military training simulations, educational software, games and entertainment, digital personal assistants, software agents managing Internet transactions or purely scientific curiosity. Different approaches are being explored, including, at one extreme, research on the interactions between agents, and at the other extreme, research on processes within agents.