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What are Agents and What are They for?

  • Schmidt B
Springer Netherlands, (2001), 5-20
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1177-7_2
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Abstract

Agents are a new modelling paradigm which has an important influence for the social sciences. First a definition of the concept Agent is given and the application areas are described. An essential difference arises between the use of this concept in social sciences, engineering sciences and formal theory.

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Schmidt, B. (2001). What are Agents and What are They for? In Cooperative Agents (pp. 5–20). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1177-7_2

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