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A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance

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Cooperative Information Agents III (CIA 1999)

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In this paper a multi-agent architecture for intelligent Websites is presented and applied in insurance. The architecture has been designed and implemented using the compositional development method for multi-agent systems DESIRE. The agents within this architecture are based on a generic broker agent model. It is shown how it can be exploited to design an intelligent Website for insurance, developed in co-operation with the software company Ordina Utopics and an insurance company.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081, HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam & Jan Treur

  2. Ordina Utopics BV, Leusden, The Netherlands

    Remco A. Lam

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  1. DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Onn M. Shehory

  3. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiss

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Jonker, C.M., Lam, R.A., Treur, J. (1999). A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance. In: Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. CIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48414-0_5

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