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SodaBot is a research project of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab aimed at simplifying the construction of software agents. It is part of the lab's Intelligent Room project.
A draft of a new SodaBot paper. We
overview SodaBot and present an example from the ongoing effort
towards building a multi-agent, distributed brain for the Intelligent
Room.
View the (somewhat outdated) SodaBot slide show!
If you don't know what a software
agent is, you should click
here before proceeding!
The Philosophy: Software agents should be
written using a vocabulary not provided by traditional programming
languages --- it should be possible to create agents solely by
specifying their abstract behavior.
The Application: We introduce SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the basic software agent --- a computational framework for building agents which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent activity. Via this programming language, users can easily implement a wide-range of typical software agent applications, e.g. personal on-line assistants and meeting scheduling agents.
SodaBot provides:
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SodaBot is in use at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. It is being
developed by
Michael Coen and Joshua
Kramer under the auspices of the HCI group.
SodaBot is currently undergoing limited-distribution beta-testing.
Source code is not yet publically available.