Types of Software Agents

Nature of Task Performed:

• User agents: assist user, know interests/preferences/habits, may act on user’s behalf.

  • e.g. personal news editor, personal e-shopper, personal web guide

• Service agents: perform more general tasks in the background.

  • e.g. web indexing, info retrieval, phone network load balancing

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