In Retsina, the authors have developed a distributed collection of software agents that cooperate asynchronously to perform goal-directed information retrieval and integration for supporting a variety of decision-making tasks. Examples for everyday organizational decision making and financial portfolio management demonstrate its effectiveness.
Citation:
Katia Sycara, Anandee Pannu, Mike Williamson, Dajun Zeng, Keith Decker, "Distributed Intelligent Agents," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 36-46, Dec. 1996, doi:10.1109/64.546581