Exercise 24: Virtual Business Worlds and Cyberagents

1. The term "software agents" describes a software abstraction, an idea, or a concept, similar to OOP terms such as methods, functions, and objects.[citation needed] The concept of an agent provides a convenient and powerful way to describe a complex software entity that is capable of acting with a certain degree of autonomy in order to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user. (Wikipedia, 2009) and they have various types of agents :
- Intelligent Software Agent
- Autonomous Agent
- Distributed Agent
- Multi-agent System
- Mobile Agent
- Fuzzy Agent
2. Intelligent Software Agent and Fuzzy Agent would be applied to the Artificial Intellegience and while Statistical Techiques would use under Mobile Agent.

4. Rocky - LC_MOO

I found the bot only recongized the keyword only and give certain response, for instances, I type in Hello, the response is ..hmm is that so , therefore, it is meaningless, however, when I type in Hi then the response is correct , hi , how are you ? Again, I typed in thanks then it will response you are welcomed, therefore, i believed, all the keyword is alreayd be hardcode with certain responses.

References:
1. Wikipedia, 2009, " Agents"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent>