...Wooldridge (Agent Technology Foundations, Applications and markets; Springer-Verlag, 19981 as follows; "An agent is a computer system situated in some environment,...environment in order to meet its design objectives". and having the control over own actions and internal state. In this, an agent is different from an...

...friendly"). The definition presented here is adapted from [71]: An agent is a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable...environment in order to meet its design objectives. There are several points to note about this definition. First, the definition refers to "agents" and...

...that hold much promise for a wide variety of applications in Information Technology. An intelligent agent is "a computer system situated in some environment and that is capable of flexible autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its design objectives (Jennings and...

...from agents playing productive roles. (4) BOS can be viewed as a distributed computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable...autonomous action in this environment in order to play the role in the organization and meet the local goal. For example, Figure 1 isapartof organizational...

...wird die folgende Definition oft gebraucht: An agent is a Computer systern that is situated in sorne environment, and that is capable of autonomous action...environment in order to meet its design objectives [Wool02, S. 15]2. Diese Definition ist sehr weit gefasst; so wird schon ein (elektronischer) Heizungsthermostat...

...definition given by Jennings and Wooldridge in 1998 reads: 'a computer system situated in some environment that is capable of autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its design objectives.'74 The intelligent agent differs from other computer systems mainly in that it is able...

...are several definitions of an agent. We admit the general definition proposed by M. Wooldridge [13], "an agent is a computer system situated in some environment,...environment in order to meet its design objectives". The multi-agents paradigm permits to handle problems that need multiple solvers. In the multi-agents...

...1.2 Intelligent Agents Wooldridge (2002, p. 15) defines an agent, as "...a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable...environment in order to meet its design objectives." Therefore, an agent "... can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon...

...into the following generic, nevertheless abstract, definition: An agent is a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable...environment, in order to meet its design objectives [Wooldridge and Jennings, 1995]. the research community believes that true intelligence is not feasible...

...2003). In distributed artificial intelligence (DAI), an agent is defined as a computer system that is situated in some environment, and that is capable...environment in order to meet its design objectives. SCM problems are both distributive in nature, and require extensive intelligent decision-making. Thus,...