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16 Cards in this Set

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ubiquity
The idea that computer processing power is so cheap it becomes possible to put information processing capability everywhere.
interconnection
na
intelligence
na
delegation
The idea that we delegate goals/tasks to agents.
human-orientation
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.
global computing
na
multiagent systems
A system containing multiple agents.
agent design
na
society design
na
micro/macro levels
The distinction between agent level (micro) and society level (macro) concerns.
social ability
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.
the grid
na
middleware
Software that sits between an agent and some resource, providing access to it.
cooperative problem solving
Solving a problem by distributed semi-autonomous agents, typically assumed to share a common goal.
semantic markup
The idea of using tags to markup documents on the world-wide web that convey information about the meaning/content of the document
autonomic computing
The idea of building software systems that have the capability to monitor themselves and autonomously repair and adapt themselves as required.