Impact for agents

  • Authors:
  • Tom Wagner;Les Gasser;Michael Luck

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Processing Technology Office;University of Illinois;University of Southampton

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Impact for agents. Most of the agent research community has been predicting greater impact for years and many of us have been working to help the process along. Yet the tremendous growth on the research front has not been met with a corresponding growth in commercial applications. This paper contains a diverse set of thoughts on the issue of developing impact for agents. The authors were not given a set of questions to address but were asked to focus on the problem of developing greater impact for agents from their particular vantage point. Sections range from those that are very applied, e.g., how to "sell" a concept to those that examine the issues from a more intellectual level. Each section is prefaced with a small biography on the author of that section to properly place his/her comments in context. While the material is diverse, it is our hope that these thoughts are either directly useful or help to articulate issues of interest.