Intelligent agents represent the next leap in capability for software systems. Based upon Agent Oriented Software's research and development work on software agent technologies, JACK™ offers a way to commercially exploit the power of intelligent agents. JACK is a framework that allows developers to design, build, debug, integrate and run intelligent agents in information systems.

What, exactly, is an intelligent agent? It's an encapsulated computer system that works within larger systems, or in other environments. Agents are capable of flexible autonomous action within that larger system or environment. Their goal is to achieve design objectives.

Intelligent agents are not an application in themselves. They are the facilitators of a new generation of advanced applications. Intelligent agents will spawn a new generation of games with more convincing characters, with the game player setting their goals, selecting the good-guy and bad-guy teams and overseeing the

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