"Agents are here to stay, not least because of their diversity, their wide range of applicability and the broad spectrum of companies investing in them. As we move further and further into the information age, any information-based organisation which does not invest in agent technology may be committing commercial hara-kiri."
Hyacinth S. Nwana in [NWAN96]

Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, the 9th of July 1996
(this document was last updated on the 25th of July 1996)

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