Deck 17: Intelligent Software Agents, Bots, Delegation, and Agency

Question 1

Delegation involves the discretionary authority to autonomously act on behalf of another.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An autonomous agent takes on the responsibility of completing a task that is delegated to you.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Delegation enables you to take on more responsibility

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Information systems enable time-consuming activities to be accomplished in a more expedient manner only when delegated to subordinate employees

Question 5

The concept of the computer responding to human intervention is referred to as indirect manipulation.

Question 6

Intelligent software agents act autonomously on behalf of the user.

Question 7

Intelligent software agents replace the need for any human intervention.

Question 8

The concept of delegacy centers on consistency.

Question 9

Intelligent software agents on the Internet and intranets are moving towards personalization and diversification.

Question 10

The concept of agency consists of techniques, concepts, and applications to personalize, customize, elaborate, delegate, and catalyze the processes in the online marketplace.

Question 11

Supplier-driven agency relies primarily on pull technologies.

Question 12

A user-driven agency enables an end-user to be able to utilize push technologies to customize their information needs.

Question 13

Agency architecture defines the mathematical formulas for representing and reasoning about the properties of agents.

Question 14

Autonomy is the characteristic of an agent that acquires information necessary to function by monitoring the user's actions.

Question 15

Anthropomorphism is the embodiment of a principle, attitude, or view of life.

Question 16

Because of the static nature of intelligent agents, many are needed to develop an effective e-commerce site.

Question 17

Organizational agents are far more prevalent across the Internet than personal agents.

Question 18

A watcher agent learns from a user's past behavior.

Question 19

A helper agent is designed to assist a user in an autonomous manner without human intervention.

Question 20

Consumer recommendations can be presented to people through the use of automated collaboration filtering.

Question 21

When you agree to take on the responsibility for completing a task from another, you act as a(n) _____________.

A) delegate
B) independent agent
C) autonomous agent
D) None of the above.

Question 22

Software that "knows" a users' interests and can act autonomously on their behalf is referred to as:

A) an intelligent agent.
B) a script file.
C) artificial intelligence.
D) All of the above.

Question 23

Which of the following is true of software agents?

A) They can be personalized to meet a users' needs.
B) They operate as background tasks.
C) There are many different types of software agents.
D) All of the above.

Question 24

Which of the following is not an agency type?

A) Supplier-driven agency
B) User-driven agency
C) Market-driven agency
D) All of the above are agency types.

Question 25

Which of the following is not true of an agency?

A) It consists of techniques, concepts and applications to personalize processes.
B) It influences the content that it presents.
C) They can be categorized as organizational or personal.
D) All of the above are true.

Question 26

_________ answers the question of what an agent is, as well as the mathematical formalisms for representing and reasoning about the properties of agents.

A) Agent theory
B) Agent architecture
C) Agent Language
D) None of the above.

Question 27

_________ focuses on the development and deployment of software languages for programming and experimenting with intelligent software agents.

A) Agent theory
B) Agent architecture
C) Agent language
D) None of the above.

Question 28

__________ addresses the problem of designing hardware and software systems that will satisfy the properties specified by the agent theorists.

A) Agent theory
B) Agent architecture
C) Agent language
D) None of the above.

Question 29

Which types of agents represents two orthogonal concepts: the ability for autonomous execution and the ability to perform domain-oriented reasoning?

A) AIMA
B) MuBOT
C) Hayes-Roth
D) None of the above.

Question 30

Which types of agents collaborate, are autonomous, trustworthy and degrade gracefully in the face of a communications mismatch?

A) SodaBot
B) IBM
C) KidSim
D) None of the above.

Question 31

Which types of agents are computational systems that inhabit some complex dynamic environment and act autonomously, and by doing so realize a set of goals for which they are designed?

A) Maes
B) Foner
C) Wooldridge-Jennings
D) FAQ

Question 32

Which of the following is not a common characteristic of intelligent agents?

A) Autonomy
B) Anthropomorphism
C) Risk and trust
D) All of the above are common characteristics.

Question 33

_________ is the ascription of humanlike characteristics to an otherwise non-human entity.

A) Personalizability
B) Discourse
C) Anthropomorphism
D) None of the above.

Question 34

A(n) _______ is defined as an embodiment or concrete manifestation of a principle, attitude, view of life, or the like.

A) personalizability
B) discourse
C) anthropomorphism
D) None of the above.

Question 35

Which of the following is an advantage of a transportable agent?

A) Customization
B) Fault tolerance
C) Efficiency
D) All of the above.

Question 36

Which of the following is not a classification of Brustoloni's taxonomy of software agents?

A) Planning agent
B) Regulation agent
C) Mobility agent
D) Adaptive agent

Question 37

Which type of agent searches for the emergence of specific information?

A) Learning agent
B) Watcher agent
C) Passive agent
D) None of the above.

Question 38

Which type of agent is designed to facilitate and assist with online shopping activities?

A) Helper agent
B) Shopping agent
C) Watcher agent
D) Learning agent

Question 39

Which of the following is not an attribute role of agents within the Gaia methodology?

A) Permissions
B) Protocols
C) Use cases
D) Activities

Question 40

Which of the following is used by UML to model the world as relations between entities using static class diagram format?

A) Protocol diagram
B) Architecture diagram
C) Ontology diagram
D) None of the above.

Question 41

Provide a definition for Intelligent Software Agent.

Question 42

Distinguish between a watcher agent and a learning agent.

Question 43

List and describe the common characteristics of Intelligent Software Agents.

Question 44

Define the classifications of agents within Brustoloni's Taxonomy of Software Agents?

Question 45

List the twelve Intelligent Software Agent accessibility guidelines.