TY - GEN
T1 - Autonomy
T2 - 7th International Workshop on Agent Theories Architectures and Languages, ATAL 2000
AU - Luck, Michael
AU - D'Inverno, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2001/7/20
Y1 - 2001/7/20
N2 - Autonomy is perplexing. It is recognisably and undeniably a critical issue in the field of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, yet it is often ignored or simply assumed. For many, agents are autonomous by definition, and they see no need to add the tautologous prefix in explicitly considering autonomous agents, while for others autonomy in agents is an important yet problematic issue that demands attention. The difficulty when considering autonomy, however, is that there are different conceptual levels at which to reason and argue, including the philosophical and the practical.
AB - Autonomy is perplexing. It is recognisably and undeniably a critical issue in the field of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, yet it is often ignored or simply assumed. For many, agents are autonomous by definition, and they see no need to add the tautologous prefix in explicitly considering autonomous agents, while for others autonomy in agents is an important yet problematic issue that demands attention. The difficulty when considering autonomy, however, is that there are different conceptual levels at which to reason and argue, including the philosophical and the practical.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35048854509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-44631-1_28
DO - 10.1007/3-540-44631-1_28
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:35048854509
SN - 3540424229
SN - 9783540424222
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 351
EP - 353
BT - Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages
A2 - Castelfranchi, Cristiano
A2 - Lespérance, Yves
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
Y2 - 7 July 2000 through 9 July 2000
ER -