The Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systems

dc.contributor.advisorDenzinger, Jörg
dc.contributor.authorKendon, Tyson James
dc.contributor.committeememberBoyd, Jeffrey Edwin
dc.contributor.committeememberJacob, Christian J.
dc.contributor.committeememberFinn, Patrick
dc.contributor.committeememberFlores, Roberto A.
dc.date2019-11
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T21:46:11Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T21:46:11Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-29
dc.description.abstractThe Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systems is a collection of concepts enabling the intelligent communication of small agents, and a set of philosophical guidelines to aid in the design of intelligent systems to assist people in day-to-day tasks. The intention behind the scheme is to empower people to take control of their own computing power to achieve the kind of automatic personal assistance that otherwise can only be achieved with corporate computing. The scheme addresses the issue of how to provide people with these tools in three ways. it provides a theoretical framework for the design of small pieces of software, Agents, which communicate using usefully-structured information, Workslips, and can combine to form helpful systems for people, Personal Agent Systems. It provides a set of philosophical guide-lines which suggest particular design choices developers should make while developing these Agents. Finally it provides a reference implementation, TWPARI-J, which can be used to develop these Agents and provides practical examples of the philosophical guidelines. To demonstrate the effectiveness of TWPARI-J and the applicability of the philosophical guidelines and conceptual framework, three example systems are presented which allow people to: adjust their alarm clocks according to the weather, plan their shopping according to sales prices of local stores, and to get assistance monitoring the state of their network in an intelligent fashion. For each system particular instantiations are provided where the system is able to help a particular person. The scheme provides a simple system to create personal assistant system, often without needing to write new software, and simplifies Agent development. The scheme allows people to use the system and develop applications with a maximum of flexibility using a minimum of work.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKendon, T. J. (2019). The Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systems (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36603
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/110444
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyScienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectTask and Workslipen_US
dc.subjectPersonal Agent Systemsen_US
dc.subject.classificationArtificial Intelligenceen_US
dc.titleThe Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systemsen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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