Intelligent Agents in Civil Engineering
Martina Schnellenbach‐Held, Oliver Geibig · 2005
Intelligent Software Agents can be seen as one of the future oriented research and development areas. Hereby, agents can be characterized and differed from other software applications by several attributes. According to their different abilities, several types of agents and consequently, various fields of applications can be distinguished. This paper aims to illustrate a general overview of software agents, their abilities as well as promising fields of applications. In the second part of the paper, parts of one expedient research project are presented in more detail. In this project software agents were applied to facilitate, accelerate and optimize the whole process of AEC-Bidding. The process in itself is transferred to a virtual marketplace.