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16 Cards in this Set
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ubiquity
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The idea that computer processing power is so cheap it becomes possible to put information processing capability everywhere.
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interconnection
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intelligence
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na
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delegation
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The idea that we delegate goals/tasks to agents.
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human-orientation
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The idea that the way in which we interact with a computer system ever more closely resembles the way in which we interact with humans.
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global computing
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na
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multiagent systems
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A system containing multiple agents.
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agent design
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na
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society design
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na
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micro/macro levels
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The distinction between agent level (micro) and society level (macro) concerns.
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social ability
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The ability of an agent to engage in analogues of the social processes that we all engage in every day: not just communication, but cooperation, coordination and negotiation.
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the grid
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na
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middleware
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Software that sits between an agent and some resource, providing access to it.
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cooperative problem solving
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Solving a problem by distributed semi-autonomous agents, typically assumed to share a common goal.
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semantic markup
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The idea of using tags to markup documents on the world-wide web that convey information about the meaning/content of the document
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autonomic computing
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The idea of building software systems that have the capability to monitor themselves and autonomously repair and adapt themselves as required.
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