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Assistant agents are employed to provide users working with an application with various help services aimed at, e.g., organising user data, performing useful actions on the application on users’ behalf, and suggesting suitable, independently obtained, information. In order to better structure the implementation of the (frequently heterogeneous) assistance functionalities, it would often be desirable to introduce, in lieu of a monolithic agent, a group of independent ones, each specialised for a simple, well-defined task. Such assistant agents need to interact with each other and with the application they extend, for the sake of exchanging data and coordinating their tasks.
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Di Stefano, A., Pappalardo, G., Santoro, C., Tramontana, E. (2005). Coordinating Multi-Agent Assistants with an Application by Means of Computational Reflection. In: Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44516-6_8
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