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Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Or... > Network of Intelligent Agents - Pg. 1031

1031 Network of Intelligent Agents Germano Resconi Catholic University, Italy N IntroductIon Any problem-solving can be modelled by actions or methods by which from resources or data, one agent makes an action to obtain a result or arrive at a task. A network of actions can be used as a model of the be- haviour of the agents. Any sink in the network is a final goal or task. The other tasks are only intermediate tasks. Any source in the network is a primitive resource from which we can begin to obtain results or tasks. Cycles in the network are self-generated resources from the tasks. Now we denote "agent" as the first order that any agent can make one action or can run a method. Now we argue that there also exist agents at the second and at the more high order. Agents that copy the agents of the first order are agents of the second order. To copy one agent of the first order means to copy all the because any cell is considered as a network of internal agents (enzymes), two cells are in a symmetric posi- tion when the internal network of both the cells have the same properties. With the sexual copy process, it is possible that we lose properties or we generate new properties. In this case, the cellular population assume or lose properties. We break the symmetry in the cellular population. The adaptation process can be considered as a copy process triggered by the environment. For example, to play chess is a network of possible actions with resources and tasks. Any player is an agent of the second order that can change the network of the possible actions. The player can copy the schemes or network of actions located in the external environment in his mind. A physician that makes a model of the nature is a second order agent that makes a copy of the agent's network of actions in a physical nature into the symbolic