IEEE ICA 2022

Intelligent agents are software entities that can carry out some actions on behalf of clients with some degree of autonomy. By sensing the status of the environment, and by performing operations based on the knowledge they possess, agents change or influence the environment towards their goals. A group or a society of agents form a Multi-Agent System (MAS) in which agents interact cooperatively and/or competitively for their individual or common goals. In general, agents possess five common properties which are: autonomy (some level of self-control); adaptivity (the ability to learn and improve performance with experience); reactivity (the ability to perceive the environment and to respond in a timely fashion to changes that occur); proactivity (the ability not only to act simply in response to their environment but also to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative); and sociability (the ability to interact, communicate and work with other agents).