This thesis presents SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the basic software agent --- a computational framework for building agents which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent activity. Via this programming language, users can easily implement a wide-range of typical software agent applications, e.g. personal on-line assistants and meeting scheduling agents. The SodaBot system has been implemented and tested, and its description comprises the bulk of this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6781 |
| Date | 02 November 1994 |
| Creators | Coen, Michael H. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 77 p., 297592 bytes, 1302588 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf |
| Relation | AITR-1493 |
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