Effect of Intelligent Software Agents on Artificial Intelligence: A Review Study

In the current scenario of networking technologies, and due to the large volume of data and knowledge on the Internet, the decision support systems get incredible opportunities for providing more abundant and reliable information for every domain and application area. Some prevailing features of the Internet technologies, however, have slowed down the successful use of the Internet by humans or decision support machine systems. It is due to the fact that, firstly, the information available on the internet is spread around the globe on server pages and is disorganized. Every individual connected to the internet has his own perception of the data and its sources and hence the services grow dramatically. Secondly, the dependability, type and availability, of information services are changing all the time. Thirdly, due to the complex information updating and maintenance issues, information is imprecise and probably incorrect last but not least, the same piece of knowledge can be obtained from a number of different sources. As a result, it has become a critical challenging task for a human or computer device for collecting, identifying information sources, accessing, filtering, evaluating, and using the information in problem-solving as well as integrating data in support of decision-making, for information retrieval and problem-solving efforts. To fix this issue, one of the suggested methods is to use “Smart Software Agents". These Smart Software Agents are program codes that act on behalf of their human users to perform strenuous information gathering tasks from various online information sources, resolving discrepancies in the retrieved information, and filtering out irrelevant data.