INTELLIGENT AGENTS: A DATA MINING PERSPECTIVE

"The future of computing will be 100% driven by delegating to, rather than manipulating, computers." NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Founding director of the Media Lab at MIT In recent years, agents become a very popular paradigm in computing because of their flexibility, modularity and general applicability to a wide range of problems. Technological developments in distributed computing, robotics and the emergence of object-orientation have given rise to such technologies to model distributed problem solving. The inherent parallelism and complexity of the classification and discovering patterns from large amounts of data can be delegated to intelligent software agents in this context. In this paper, the agent paradigm along with the main applications and the use of this technology in data mining are briefly discussed.

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