Towards a hierarchical taxonomy of autonomous agents
Towards a hierarchical taxonomy of autonomous agents
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走向自主代理的分层分类
DOI：
10.1109/icsmc.2004.1400871
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2004
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通讯作者：
G. Agha
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作者：
Predrag T. Tosic;G. Agha
自治代理已经成为一个有影响力的和强大的范例，在各种学科，从社会学和经济学到分布式人工智能和软件工程哲学。考虑到这种范式已经存在了一段时间，人们会期望对自主代理是什么以及它们不是什么有一个广泛认同的、坚实的理解。但事实并非如此。因此，我们加入目前关于什么是适当的自治机构概念的辩论。我们从控制论和一般系统的角度来处理代理和代理本体，与基于代理文学社会学，人类学和/或认知心理学的方法中更常见的方法相反。我们试图确定最基本的属性的自主代理，并提出了一个试探性的层次结构的自主代理的基础上，这些属性。
Autonomous agents have become an influential and powerful paradigm in a great variety of disciplines, from sociology and economics to distributed artificial intelligence and software engineering to philosophy. Given that the paradigm has been around for awhile, one would expect a broadly agreed-upon, solid understanding of what autonomous agents are and what they are not. This, however, is not the case. We therefore join the ongoing debate on what are the appropriate notions of autonomous agency. We approach agents and agent ontology from a cybernetics and general systems perspective, in contrast to the much more common in the agent literature sociology, anthropology and/or cognitive psychology based approaches. We attempt to identify the most fundamental attributes of autonomous agents, and propose a tentative hierarchy of autonomous agents based on those attributes.