IEE Colloquium on `Intelligent Agents´ (Digest No.048)

The following topics were dealt with: software agents in the human-computer interface; principal design for sociable agency; planning and reflection in autonomous agents; coordination patterns in multi-agent worlds applications to computer vision and robotics; multi-agent societal architecture for real-time applications and a design methodology applied to the control of a multi-robot-multi-sensor assembly workcell; a methodology for developing multi-agent systems and practical tools constructed; Rational Agents Testbed for Multi Agent Networks; RATMAN, defining rational agents by using hierarchical structured knowledge bases; layered architectures for intelligent agents and intelligent agents for Total Network Management at British Telecom