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The base of research works, on interface agents, is the client-server concept, where they regarded them as humans’ assistants in the use of software. This vision does not permit the foundation, in a coherent way, of the humansoftware cooperation. In this paper, we propose a cooperation-based approach; of interface agents’development for multi-agent systems. Abstractly,we consider the human as an agent H that assumes one or more roles. Conceptually, we associate to the human a software F that holds the H’s objective. F is a software agent qualified as interface agent. However, F has neither human’s intellectual abilities nor its resources’ exploitation. We supplement this lack by F-human interaction. The agent H will then be consisted of F completed by the human’s intellectual abilities and his resources’ exploitation. H cooperates with other software agents and the development of F will follow a multi-agent development methodology.
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Lahlouhi, A., Sahnoun, Z., Lamine Benbrahim, M., Boussaha1, A. (2002). Interface Agents Development in MASA for Human Integration in Multiagent Systems. In: Garijo, F.J., Riquelme, J.C., Toro, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence — IBERAMIA 2002. IBERAMIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36131-6_58
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