To understand the strengths and limitations of software agents is very important. Many issues and limitations have been discussed in the literature, for example, software agents have limited learning capability. However, if we could see such limitations in a controlled environment and measure how such limitations affect the agents' performance. Such research can be extremely helpful to design better software agents. We developed an artificial market with networked computers to simulate the environment of Internet. This artificial market allows players, such as, humans or software agents, to compete in a simulated dynamic market.
Citation:
Jerome Yen, "Human Agents and Intelligent Agents: An Experiment on the Internet," hicss, vol. 4, pp.242, 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 4: Information Systems Track - Internet and the Digital Economy, 1997