Characterisation of Intelligent Autonomous Agents Inspired by Biological Theory in Cognitive Environment

Table 2

Assets and denotation.

Assets	Other names	Denotation
Responsive	Sensing and acting	Answers in a timely fashion to changes in the environment
Autonomous		Calisthenics control over its own actions
Goal-oriented	Proactive purposeful	Does not simply act in response to the environment
Temporally continuous		Is a continuously running process
Communicative	Socially able	Communicates with other agents, perhaps including people
Learning	Adaptive	Changes its behaviour based on its previous experience
Mobile		Able to transport itself from one machine to another
Flexible		Actions are not scripted
Personality		Believable “personality” and emotional state