Understanding intelligent agents: analysis
and synthesis
John Fox, Martin Beveridge and David Glasspool
London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
E-mail: {john.fox,martin.beveridge,david.glasspool}@cancer.org.uk
Abstract. Current views of intelligent agent technologies are reviewed with respect to (a) their general cognitive capabilities
and (b) the classic Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model. A benchmark agent model is developed as a basis for analyzing and
comparing agent systems. PROforma is an agent technology that has grown out of work in modeling medical expertise and the
benchmark is used to carry out a case study analysis of this technology, looking at it from three contrasting points of view:
logic programming, object-oriented programming and agent-oriented programming. These viewpoints yield different insights
into the strengths and weaknesses of PROforma and lead to a clarification and consolidation of the......
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