This document discusses intelligent agents and rational behavior. It defines an agent as anything that can perceive its environment and act upon it, using sensors and actuators. An agent's behavior is described by its agent function, which maps percepts to actions. A rational agent is one that does the right thing and selects actions expected to maximize its performance based on its percepts and prior knowledge. For a rational agent, its rationality depends on the performance measure, its prior knowledge, available actions, and percept sequence.