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Intelligent agents: architectures, learning paradigms, deployment models, and applications

Aug 2026 · Evolutionary Intelligence · Vol 19 · 0 citations · 235 references

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This survey develops a unified taxonomy that systematically integrates learning paradigms, agent architectures, coordination mechanisms, deployment models, application domains, and evaluation frameworks from a common analytical perspective and provides a structured foundation for future advances in intelligent agent systems.

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