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SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System

Michael H. Coen
AAAI 1994 pp. 1433
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Abstract

Introduction In this extended abstract, we argue that software agents should be written using a vocabulary not provided by traditional programming languages --- it should be possible to create agents solely by specifying their abstract behavior. Motivated by this position, we introduce SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the basic software agent --- a computational framework for building agents which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent activity. Via this programming language, users can easily implement a wide-range of typical software agent applications, e.g. personal on-line assistants and meeting scheduling agents. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award Grant No....

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Coen. "SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.

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[Coen. "SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/coen1994aaai-sodabot/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{coen1994aaai-sodabot,
  title     = {{SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System}},
  author    = {Coen, Michael H.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1994},
  pages     = {1433},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1994/coen1994aaai-sodabot/}
}