Current and former officials say there has been strong suspicion in the intelligence community for several years that the Russians still had at least one high-level agent, possibly more, within the government.
The big hook of the series, of course, is that a Muslim is an F.B.I. agent in the first place; in a "Frontline" interview two years ago, a former high-level agent named Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who claims to have been the first Muslim agent ever hired by the F.B.I. when he started working there in the nineteen-nineties, said that by 2003 there were still only a handful of Muslim agents at the bureau.
As an alternative to planning, an approach to high-level agent control based on concurrent program execution is considered.
In this context, an agent is a piece of software performing defined system functions such as exchanging information or requesting services to other agents via a high-level agent communication language.
At a higher level, agents cooperate with each other to balance workload using a peer-to-peer service advertisement and discovery mechanism.
At a higher level agents may also be able to negotiate and make autonomous decisions and commitments on behalf of their owners.
Calderon's court filing alleges that he "was approached on six separate occasions by high level agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and on two occasions" by Assistant U.S. Atty.
All of these agents work in parallel, and they would seed their reward to the high level agent and then could make a decision about what's the best decision to make at this point.
For example, parasites of fleas that in turn feed on rodents are hyperparasites that play the role of high-level control agents on the ecosystem level, the role that entomoparasitic nematodes share with the bacterial plague agent.
This allows us to abstract the coupled behavior of the agents and the objects as a finite transition system and to design a high-level multi-agent plan that satisfies the agents' and the objects' specifications, given as temporal logic formulas.
