SMART Agent

SMART Agents are a new form of software agent that interface with other agents forming an artificial intelligence system. The acronym "SMART" stands for "System for Managing Agents in Real Time".This is a bit of a misnomer because the agents manage themselves and each other by agreeing to become part of the collective whole.SMART Agents work together, within a SMART system, to perform smaller pieces of larger programming tasksso that the combined collective can achieve great things with relatively simple programming building blocks.The key concept of SMART is that each individual agent does not have to be "intelligent".By working together in a smart way, the agents form a type of emergent intelligence that may appear to exhibitintelligence.

Intelligent agents have been around for a long time in various forms.The term Intelligent Agent can refer to any agent that exhibits some amount of intelligence and there is no requirement that the agent have the ability to work with other agents. Therefore a SMART Agent is a specific type of Intelligent Agent where the emphasis is on how the agents communicate with each other rather than any one agent achieving a significant amount of intelligence. The system becomes the thing that can achieve intelligence using therelatively unintelligent building blocks.

Each SMART Agent can be programmed to achieve specific data processing functionality and can advertise thatfunctionality to the SMART System, allowing other agents to work together to achieve things that eachindividual agent can not.

A SMART system can be built using any programming language and communication infrastructure.

Inspired by the popular 1960s TV show Get Smart, each agent can appear smarter by using other agents to accomplish various tasks.In the TV Series, Agent 86 played the leading agent and took all the credit, while Agent 99 did all of the real work.Agent 99 never even had a real name. She was always just referred to as "99".

ee also

*Intelligent agent
*Cognitive agent
*Cognitive architectures
*Cognitive radio - a practical field for implementation
*Cybernetics, Computer science
*Federated search - the ability for agents to search heterogeneous data sources using a single vocabulary
*Fuzzy agents - IA implemented with adaptive fuzzy logic
*Intelligence
*Multi-agent system and multiple-agent system - multiple interactive agents
*Reinforcement learning
*Semantic web - making (approximations of) the meaning of web pages available for automated processing
*Simulated reality
*Software agent

References

#Note|Kasabov [http://www.rsnz.org/members/fellows/personal/34686.php rsnz.org] Characteristics of an intelligent agent
#Note|Haag 3, 4, 5 Haag, Stephen. "Management Information Systems for the Information Age", 2006. Pages 224-228

External links

* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/absintelagent/ Abstract Intelligent Agent - Yahoo eGroup]
* [http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/agents.html Intelligent Agent - from MIT Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.bridgeport.edu/~sobh/pdf/jp30.pdf Bridgeport]
* [http://www.coneural.org/reports/Coneural-03-01.pdf Coneural]