Rule-Directed Interactive Transaction Agents: An Approach to Knowledge Acquisition

A description of computer programs, called user agents, that can perform various tasks for the user. Interacting with users, these agents can learn facts and store them in a data base or learn data-manipulation procedures and represent them as programs. The agents are written in RITA, the Rule- dire...

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Main Author: Waterman, Donald A
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING
Computer Hardware
COMPUTER LOGIC
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Computer Programming and Software
DATA ACQUISITION
DATA PROCESSING TERMINALS
HEURISTIC METHODS
LPN-ARPA ORDER-3473
MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE
RITA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
USER AGENT COMPUTER PROGRAMS
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Summary:A description of computer programs, called user agents, that can perform various tasks for the user. Interacting with users, these agents can learn facts and store them in a data base or learn data-manipulation procedures and represent them as programs. The agents are written in RITA, the Rule- directed Interactive Transaction Agent system, and are organized as sets of IF- THEN rules. Four types of RITA agents are described: (1) an exemplary programming agent that 'watches' a user perform a task, then writes a program to perform the same task; (2) a self-modifying agent that performs file transfer tasks, modifying itself to perform them with less help each time; (3) a tutoring agent that watches demonstrations of interactive computer languages or local operating systems, then creates teaching agents for assisting new users; (4) a reactive-message creating agent that elicits text to create a reactive message, which is then sent to a recipient who interacts with it, automatically returning a response to the sender.