A new classification acheme for autonomous software agent

Software agents are expected to take an important role in the information technology world for solve the complex problems in the real world and a number of related works have been done mainly in the research fields of artificial intelligence, software engineering, database, and network computing. They behave like human intelligently, autonomously, cooperatively, and socially to solve problems or to support human users. The goal of this paper is to classify the different types of agents under the one root. A the autonomy is the key property of software agent, this paper also focus on different autonomous agents.