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506 Advanced Artificial Intelligence
hands, legs etc. Robot agent usually holds some cameras for getting environment
information and the motor is their actor. Software agent uses codes as their
sensor and actor (Figure 14.2).
Besides communication with environment, most agents need to deal with the
received information to achieve their goals. Figure 14.3 shows the work process
of intelligent agent. After receiving the information, the first step for agents is
syncretizing the information to make it acceptable by knowledge base of agents.
Information syncretizing is very important because the results from different
communication components are often heterogeneous and the representation is
different. For example, for the same thing, the information provided by human
being and received by agents may be different. So, Information syncretizing must
identify and differentiate correctly this kind of variance.
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Once the agents received the outer information, the information process
becomes the key tasks of agents since it reflect the real function of every agent.
The purpose of information processing is explaining the useful data and form the
concrete plan. Because every agent has its own goal, the impact of inner goal
must be considered as a part of whole impact. If agents know the impact, they
need to adopt actions to realize the goal. To form plan, agents may prescribe
knowledge, including new conditions to reflect the concrete actions. However,
this is not obligatory since sometimes agents need not plans when take actions
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