http://blog.chrisfournier.ca A.I. in Ottawa, Canada Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 45.417-75.7http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lxblogxcfournie/~3/6cwKZwXxFSQ/ http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/what-is-a-software-agent/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:05:58 +0000 Chris Fournier http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/?p=64 What is a software agent? Previously I had used the term without actually defining what it is, is not, or what makes up a software agent. Breaking it down To define the term &#8217;software agent&#8217;, let&#8217;s first break it into it&#8217;s parts. The word &#8216;software&#8216; should be obvious, it&#8217;s a computer program that executes instructions on a [...] <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A_j75pNhsc9-lIMeq2-iPxbbOn8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A_j75pNhsc9-lIMeq2-iPxbbOn8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A_j75pNhsc9-lIMeq2-iPxbbOn8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A_j75pNhsc9-lIMeq2-iPxbbOn8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lxblogxcfournie/~4/6cwKZwXxFSQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/what-is-a-software-agent/feed/ 0 http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/what-is-a-software-agent/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lxblogxcfournie/~3/iGGk1Rd63mI/ http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/a-software-agent-using-bayesian-trust-and-decision-tree-learning/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:50:35 +0000 Chris Fournier http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/?p=3 As a group term project for my Software Agents Design course, Catalin Patulea, Mike Lepard, Pierre Dinnissen and I developed a software agent using Java for the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) Testbed, called the CCMPAgent. Unlike most academic software projects, our professor encouraged us to not only develop an agent, but also separate [...] <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/afxXkYQBCobHUD-AUGl3qGFy-_Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/afxXkYQBCobHUD-AUGl3qGFy-_Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/afxXkYQBCobHUD-AUGl3qGFy-_Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/afxXkYQBCobHUD-AUGl3qGFy-_Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lxblogxcfournie/~4/iGGk1Rd63mI" height="1" width="1"/> http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/a-software-agent-using-bayesian-trust-and-decision-tree-learning/feed/ 0 http://blog.chrisfournier.ca/2009/12/a-software-agent-using-bayesian-trust-and-decision-tree-learning/