Agent that models, reasons and makes decisions

We propose a computational agent-reasoning model (CAR) for constructing intelligent agent. Based on the CAR model, we present a new type of agent, computational intelligent agent (CIA), which has the ability to model, reason and make decisions on behalf of human beings. Unlike traditional intelligent agents, CIA is able to represent knowledge and carry out the inferences using numeric representations and computation instead of symbolic representation and deduction. Thus, the construction of CIA is simplified and the implementation code is compact. CIA also has the ability to handle various types of fuzzy information. It can be applied to various agent applications, especially for electronic commerce over the Internet. An example of CIA as a buying agent is illustrated.