T2520 Agent

Which of the following best defines an agent in the context of Agent Technology?

• A precompiled library used to run software faster

• A software entity that perceives its environment and acts autonomously

• A physical device controlled by a human operator

• Any distributed network hardware component

Which of the following is NOT typically considered a characteristic of intelligent agents?

• Reactivity

• Pro-activeness

• Social ability

• Manual configuration at every step

One of the key distinguishing features of an intelligent agent is that it ________

• executes strictly predefined scripts

• performs only reactive actions with no goa

• operates autonomously to meet its objectives

• requires constant human supervision

In Agent Technology, the term environment refers to ___________

• the operating system on which the agent is installed

• the human user interacting with the system

• the external context in which the agent senses and performs actions

• the programming language used to implement the agent

Agents that can interact and cooperate with other agents to achieve a common goal are specifically referred to as ____________

• standalone agents

• multi-agents

• mobile agents

• static agents

What is the main difference between a simple agent and an intelligent agent?

• Simple agents can communicate, intelligent agents cannot

• Intelligent agents possess goal-directed behaviour, while simple agents only react to stimuli

• Simple agents run on dedicated hardware, intelligent agents run on the cloud

• Intelligent agents require human intervention to operate

Which of the following is NOT a typical property of an intelligent agent?

• Autonomy

• Learning capability

• Fixed pre-programmed behaviour

• Goal-oriented behaviour

A utility-based agent selects actions based on __________

• whether its environment is static or dynamic

• past experiences alone

• a measure of the desirability of different states

• the number of agents in the system

Which of the following environments makes the agent design problem more difficult?

• Fully observable and deterministic environment

• Static and discrete environment

• Partially observable and stochastic environment

• Single-agent and episodic environment

In multi-agent systems, the term cooperative agents refers to agents that __________

• act solely to increase their own utility even at the expense of others

• ignore the existence of other agents in the environment

• share information and work together to achieve a common objective

• are controlled directly by a human user