With the rapid expansion of the Internet, the implementation of agent technology in electronic commerce (e-commerce) becomes very popular, which provides a promising field for the approach of agent and Artificial Intelligence technology. In this paper, we describe a multi-agent intelligent shopping assistant implemented in our EasyMall system, and present the agent-based model for intelligent s...

Network management (NM) is a critical issue in today's rapidly changing network environment. Existing centralized client-server based network management frameworks suffer form problems such as insufficient scalability, interoperability, reliability, and flexibility, as networks become more geographically distributed. A framework for an Intelligent Mobile Agents (IMA) architecture is proposed us...

Many Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have been developed to add adaptivity and intelligence to e-learning systems. Intelligent agents are widely used in ITSs due to their characteristics such as modularity and facilitation of intelligent mechanism implementation. At the same time development of agent based ITS is complicated and methodological support is needed to enable industrial adoption ...

What is agent? Just like Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are multiple definitions to it, however not a single definition could be agreed upon by all researchers and developers in the world. We could view Agent and Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) as a new programming paradigm that has evolved itself from Object Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE). AOSE has placed greater emphasis...

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms allows the development of intelligent machines/systems capable to solve very complex engineering problems. Multi-agent systems is one paradigm, derived from the distributed artificial intelligence and artificial life fields, that allows an alternative way to design distributed control systems based on autonomous and cooperative agents, ...

It is often claimed, that intelligent agents are to play an important role in bringing intelligence to the networked world of information. While these claims resurface continually since at least 1994, they do not seem to be substantiated through the development and implementation of large scale agent systems (in terms of both types and sheer number of agents co-existing in the system). While th...

Interacting with intelligence in an ever-changing environment calls for exceptional performances from artificial beings. One mechanism explored to produce intuitive-like behavior in artificial intelligence applications is emotion. This chapter examines the engineering of a mechanism that synthesizes and processes an artificial agent’s internal emotional states: the Affective Space. Through use ...

Use of Internet has surged at an exponential rate in recent years. In particular, it has led to many new and innovative applications in the area of ECommerce. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent agent termed AINI, the Artificial Intelligent Solution Humanoid. We also show how current ecommerce technological trends can be enhanced by using AINI. AINI is a chatterbot integrated with 3D ani...

Different research studies have proved that emotions meet a pivotal role in cognitive processes and in particular the studies made by Damasio who argues that human-beings without emotions could not make the simplest decision (Damasio 1994). We think that the fail of Intelligent Distance Learning Systems to achieve an efficient learning is mainly resulting from the lacking of Emotional Intellige...

In this paper we present mobile Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) as a specific paradigm to design intelligent and distributed applications in the context of Ambient Intelligence (AmI). We discuss how mobility, coupled with MAS, can be useful to meet the requirements of AmI. Indeed, the main features of mobile MAS, such as natural distribution of the system, inherent intelligence of the agents, and the...