Defining spatial agents
Armanda Rodrigues, Jonathan F. Raper · 2021
By studying current research into agents the people have selected the following types of agent as the basis for spatial agent development: mobile agents, interface agents, deliberative (cognitive) agents and reactive agents. This chapter is concerned with the application of agents to spatial issues, the people will only discuss the types of agent that will be useful in this area of expertise: mobile agents, reactive agents, cognitive agents and interface agents. Agents performing spatial data mining, after receiving the specification of their search, should travel through the network looking for the data that the user needs. The aim is to identify what makes a tool adequate for (spatial) agent development and not to provide a complete list of tools and languages. It is a very simple prototype, but its implementation was very useful for the authors because it raised some additional questions about the development of spatial agents.