This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the pro...

Social power, regardless of its pervasiveness and acknowledged impact in a multitude of human social processes remains little explored in virtual agents. To address this gap in social intelligence and consequently virtual agent believability, we introduce the cognitive processes that underlie social power intelligence. In conceptualizing these we identify three core social power components requ...

Software agents have been recognized as one of the main building blocks of the emerging infrastructure for the Semantic Web, but their relationship with more standard components, such as Web servers and clients, is still not clear. At the server side, a possible role for agents is to enhance the capabilities of servers using their intelligence to provide more complex services and behaviors. In ...

Architecture Concrete realization: CORBA Elements Concrete realization: Java Elements Messaging Directory ACL Messaging Directory ACL Figure 1: Abstract Architecture Mapped to Various Concrete Realizations The abstract architecture also describes optional elements. Although an element is optional at the abstract level, it may be mandatory in a particular realization. That is, a realization may ...

Trading in financial markets is undergoing a radical transformation, one in which algorithmic methods are becoming increasingly more important. The development of intelligent agents that can act as autonomous traders seems like a logical step forward in this “algorithms arms race”. In this paper we describe an infrastructure for implementing hybrid intelligent agents with the ability to trade f...

Forty years ago, pioneers such as J.C.R. Licklider and Douglas Englebart championed the idea of interactive computing as a way of creating a “man-machine symbiosis” where mankind would be enabled to think in ways that were previously impossible [3, 5]. Unfortunately, in those times, such a mental coupling was limited to sitting in front of a terminal and keying in requests. Today, wearable comp...

In this article we propose a methodology for implementing the behaviour of intelligent interface agents using a BDI (Believes, Desires, Intentions) model. This work is based on the architecture presented in (Garijo et al. 98). We aim to show that BDI schemes applied to intelligent interface agents design produce robust and intuitively designed applications. This work has been applied to a fully...

An automated shopping framework which employs migrating agents as a means to implement today’s practices of online shopping is introduced. The system encompasses a new business market architecture which provides support for retailer agents and migrating shopper agents, with agent communication adhering to IEEE-FIPA specifications. The proposed system focuses on shopping input and protoco...

In modern computer games — like action, adventure, role-playing, strategy, simulation and sports games — artificial intelligence (AI) techniques play an important role. However, the requirements of such games are very different from those of the games normally studied in AI. This article discusses which approaches and fields of research are relevant to achieve a sophisticated goal-directed beha...

3 This paper considers the consequences of endowing an intelligent agent with the ability to modify its own code. The intelligent agent is patterned closely after AIXI with these specific assumptions: 1) The agent is allowed to arbitrarily modify its own inputs if it so chooses; 2) The agent’s code is a part of the environment and may be read and written by the environment. The first of these w...