A Perspective on Software Agents Research (1999)
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@MISC{Nwana99aperspective,
author = {Hyacinth S. Nwana and Divine T. Ndumu},
title = {A Perspective on Software Agents Research},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper sets out, ambitiously, to present a brief reappraisal of software agents research. Evidently, software agent technology has promised much. However some five years after the word `agent' came into vogue in the popular computing press, it is perhaps time the efforts in this fledgling area are thoroughly evaluated with a view to refocusing future efforts. We do not pretend to have done this in this paper -- but we hope we have sown the first seeds towards a thorough first 5-year report of the software agents area. The paper contains some strong views not necessarily widely accepted by the agent community.







