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This paper sets out some ideas and thoughts that resulted from an attendance at the NATO Advanced Study Institute “The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents” that took place at the Castle Ivano, Italy in March 1993. The discussion is presented in the form of a project proposal for work that aims to examine the nature of applying some of the ideas and techniques covered in the institute’s talks and discussions to an industrial problem domain (active sensing of material faults and defects). First some working characterisations are covered that provide some flavour of the main directions of the proposed work. These are followed by a description of the industrial domain and a test-bed that has been built to support experimentation. The conclusion provides discussion of interesting research directions.
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Pebody, M. (1995). How Do You Choose Your Agents? How Do You Distribute Your Processes?. In: Steels, L. (eds) The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents. NATO ASI Series, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79629-6_14
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