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Bye-Bye Agents? Not
March/April 2010 (vol. 14 no. 2)
pp. 93-96
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Cristiano Castelfranchi, "Bye-Bye Agents? Not," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 93-96, March/April, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2010.32,
author = {Cristiano Castelfranchi},
title = {Bye-Bye Agents? Not},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {14},
number = {2},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2010},
pages = {93-96},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.32},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Cristiano Castelfranchi discusses the weaknesess and the possible crisis of the agents paradigm. I examine some potentialities and ambitions of such an approach, which shouldn't be reduced to a technology. He disagrees with Hewitt identifying agents with cognitive (BDIA; beliefs, desires, intentions, and affect) agents, and with his opposition to agents organizations, which in fact presuppose agents and might be conceived as agents.

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Index Terms:
agents, multiagent systems, organizations of restricted generality, ORGs
Citation:
Cristiano Castelfranchi, "Bye-Bye Agents? Not," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 93-96, March-April 2010, doi:10.1109/MIC.2010.32
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