# A Review of Methodologies for the Development of Intelligent Agents

> MeRC Working Paper #2 by Xiaoqing Li and Ali R. Montazemi, May 2003: a review of the methodologies used to develop intelligent agent systems.

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Working Paper #2 by Xiaoqing Li and Ali R. Montazemi, May 2003.

- Information systems carried an increasing range of everyday activities.
- More and more untrained people became computer users.
- Intelligent agents, an AI technique, were expected to ease information overload.
- Agents reduce dialogue complexity by understanding the user's goals.
- The paper reviewed methodologies for developing intelligent agent systems.