Title
Extending Agent Capabilities: Tools vs. Agents
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to motivate extending the formal definition of "capability'' to incorporate the capabilities of external entities, i.e. external capability. The title points to the idea that an external entity may be either a tool or an agent, and only in the latter case does collaboration becomes relevant. This is the starting point for viewing the previously introduced "tool'' concept and tool use, as complementary to the agent concept and collaboration respectively. We argue that the tool concept fits between the single agent case and true multi-agent systems where the agents collaborate. According to our view, tool-use is distinguishable both from using internal capabilities and from collaborating with other agents. We also present a formalization of external capability and show this definition preserves desirable 'rationality' properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WIIAT.2008.247
IAT
Keywords
Field
DocType
main aim,external entity,latter case,external capability,tool use,tool concept,extending agent capabilities,single agent case,agent concept,formal definition,internal capability,collaboration,context modeling,multi agent systems,cognition,switches,multi agent system,negotiation
Rationality,Information retrieval,Computer science,Knowledge management,Multi-agent system,Formal description,Context model,Human–computer interaction,Multiagent learning,Cognition,Negotiation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.58
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daghan L. Acay181.35
Gil Tidhar217557.65
Liz Sonenberg3802119.89