Personalized Agents

Résumé du livre

Although the term "agent" has come to mean many things, it perhaps has the most traction when identified with an anthropomorphized and autonomous program that acts as a personal assistant to a specific user (or set of users). In this model, the agent usually "lives" in a virtual world, may have access to data about its user, and is empowered to act on its user's behalf in a variety of computer-based tasks, including appointment scheduling, vetting messages, engaging in negotiation with other users, discovering items of interest, and even initiating contact with other users and agents.