This paper introduces a novel concept, the intelligent being, as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The paper argues for a role of the intelligent being that is analogous to what maps contribute in navigation systems (and may become as important). The concept is applied to intelligent product instances, intelligent product types and intelligent resources alike.

This paper puts forward a novel concept: the intelligent being. Intelligent agents emphasize action and decision-making, which is strongly reflected in the results of agent research. However, real-world applications require much more than decision-making and the intelligent being addresses a crucial part of this: reflecting reality into the agent world. Importantly, reflecting some part of real...

The utilization of immersive distributed virtual environments for military training is readily apparent (Stytz 1996; Stytz, Soltz, & Wilson 1996). These virtual environments are capable of simulating thousands of real-world and synthetic components, all interacting in real time. The user must attempt to base decisions on relevant information within the environment. However, due to the dynacism ...

in the current competitive market, productive and economical firms need to manage and monitor resources and elements related to outside the organization, in addition to considering the organization and its internal resources. so today, supply chain management is proposed as one of the fundamental infrastructures for implementing e-commerce worldwide. supply chain management is a phenomenon that...

As intelligent environments become more focused on supporting human activity, we see a growing need for the computer to ascertain users’ location and activity, be it for face detection, gesture recognition, or even simple tracking. To support such applications, a robust tracking algorithm is required. A camera tracking algorithm for a pan and tilt camera is proposed, that is robust to moderatel...

(Chalupsky et al. 2001, 2002) at the University of Southern California (USC) was to develop software agents to support human organizations. The project was quite successful with impressive prototypes and many papers on the research. In fact, DARPA, which funded the project, was so enthusiastic about the results that it asked us to deploy a version of the Elves for use at DARPA. The original app...

Autonomy of agents is a critical issue in the field of intelligent agents. It is indeed becoming central and relevant in the design and development of agents and multi-agents systems. In this paper we intend to articulate some fundamental concepts and concerns of the autonomy of agents. Some critical attributes in autonomy are reviewed from the perspective of a number of researches projecting c...

This paper reviews the current state of the art in the research concerning the development of autonomous artificial intelligent agents. First, the meaning of specific terms, like agency, automaticity, autonomy, embodiment, situatedness, and intelligence, are discussed in the context of this domain. The motivations for conducting research in this area are then exposed. We focus, in particular, o...

The availability of network-based information sources and services, along with the wide use of of World Wide Web, presents a great opportunity for enhanced problem solving support that incorporates information gathering into the problem solving framework. The concept of an intelligent information agent has been explored for information accessing and ltering tasks (e.g., ltering of newsgroup inf...

This paper deenes my depth area for the AI qualifying exam. In the next paragraphs I will give an intensional deenition. Following that will be a roughly-grouped list of papers which form a corresponding extensional deenition for the area. The goal of building an intelligent agent is almost synonymous with the goal of building an artiicial intelligence. This depth area scopes that to managable ...