Small packets of software that can ‘learn' a users requirements and meet them in, say providing exactly the right information through a portal.
software tools which help the user find information of specific interest to him/her. The user's profile is continually refined and improved based on the user's acceptance or rejection of recommendations over time.
Software tools that automatically comparison-shop for the lowest prices on internationally available brand-name merchandise.
Software agents that enable the service customer to perform tasks hitherto performed by service representatives.
as robots or software programs that have the above properties, namely, the ability to act autonomously on their user's behalf, learn from experience, and collaborate with other agents to achieve a common goal. nteractive advertisement Any advertisement that requires or allows the viewer/consumer to take some action
Applications that run on a server that perform a variety of functions on the Internet. Among these are searching for destinations of a specified critera, alerting a user when a stock price passes a specified level, and other user-defined tasks.
An intelligent agent is a software entity that carries out a set of operations on behalf of a user with some degree of independence or autonomy, and in so doing, employs knowledge or representation of the user's goals or desires.
The term intelligent agents is really an umbrella description for a body of research and development into software and/or hardware that emphasizes artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to perform information filtering and other autonomous tasks for users. Intelligent agents may come in various shapes and forms such as knowbots, softbots, taskbots, personal agents, shop-bots, information agents, etc. For example, an information agent might analyze its owner's surfing patterns and crawl the web in search of information that might be of interest to him or her. Shop-bots are currently already available and will search the web for the best prices on items such as books, or CDs. As intelligent agents become more advanced and prevalent in society, there will inevitably arise some interesting ethical and social aspects to their use. If you relinquish some responsibility to an intelligent agent, you will need to be aware of the authority that you are transferring to them. Imagine if your shop-bot had purchased the entire six seasons worth of the X-Files on DVD because it was a good price – but you don't even own a DVD player
software products based on neural technology which emulate the pattern finding abilities of the human brain. Internet - the worldwide network of computers connected by TCP/IP and other protocols.
Software that exhibits a large degree of autonomy, decentralized authority and robustness in dynamically changing environments.