Massive deliberation [Web agents]

Agents are proliferating on the Web, making it conceivable that their collective reasoning ability might someday be harnessed for robust decision-making. The hope is that massive deliberation power can soon help solve problems that require knowledge, reasoning, and intelligence. Until recently, work...

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Published inIEEE internet computing Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 72 - 75
Main Authors Turkett, W.H., Rose, J.R., Huhns, M.N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2003
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Algorithm design and analysis
Decision making
Decision theory
Ethics
Humans
Radio astronomy
Robustness
Signal analysis
Signal processing
State-space methods
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Summary:Agents are proliferating on the Web, making it conceivable that their collective reasoning ability might someday be harnessed for robust decision-making. The hope is that massive deliberation power can soon help solve problems that require knowledge, reasoning, and intelligence. Until recently, working individually or in small groups, agents across the Web could barely communicate and could only reason under conditions of severely bounded rationality. Projects such as Agentcities showed that widespread heterogeneous agents could collaborate on specific predefined tasks and provide diverse agent-based services. When the tasks are dynamic, of long duration, and ill defined, however, success requires planning that is continual, distributed, and accounts for the social fabric into which the plans and their execution must fit. The authors discusses distributed planning and societal agents.
ISSN:1089-7801
1941-0131
DOI:10.1109/MIC.2003.1167343