What Chance Software Agents?

  • Authors:
  • Barry Crabtree

  • Affiliations:
  • BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 7RE, UK. Email: Barry.Crabtree@bt.com

  • Venue:
  • The Knowledge Engineering Review
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Software agents have come a long way in the last ten or so years. This paper looks at the practical challenges many software agent developers face including: interfacing to legacy systems; developing distributed systems; agent competence; and trust and privacy issues. Because it covers such a broad area, it will focus on how the problems and issues have changed over the years, and highlight some of the perennial problems.