Interactive and autonomous adaptive agents - material

• Information on agent technologies
• Software agents group at MIT Media Lab
• InfoSpiders - Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery
• START - Natural language question answering system
• Agent construction tools
• Context-sensitive learning
• How to program a Mole - Mobile agent

Questions

• What does it mean to be autonomous?
• Why is adaptation needed in becoming truly autonomous?