Over the past decade, rational agency has come to be recognised as a central theme in artificial intelligence. Drawing upon research on rational action and agency in philosophy, logic, game theory, decision theory, and the philosophy of language, this volume represents an advanced, comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of the field of rational agency as it stands today. It covers the philosophical foundations of rational agency, logical and decision-theoretic approaches to rational agency, multi-agent aspects of rational agency (including speech acts, joint plans, and cooperation protocols), and, finally, describes a number of approaches to programming rational agents. Although written from the standpoint of artificial intelligence, this interdisciplinary text will be of interest to researchers in logic, mainstream computer science, the philosophy of rational action and agency, and economics.
Author(s): Anand S. Rao, Michael Wooldridge (auth.), Michael Wooldridge, Anand Rao (eds.)
Series: Applied Logic Series 14
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 302
Tags: Logic; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Philosophy of Language
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Foundations of Rational Agency....Pages 1-10
Rationality and Intelligence....Pages 11-33
What Sort of Architecture is Required for a Human-Like Agent?....Pages 35-52
Planning Agents....Pages 53-79
Toward Rational Interactions in Multiagent Domains....Pages 81-104
Know-How....Pages 105-132
An Integrated Modal Approach to Rational Agents....Pages 133-167
Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents....Pages 169-201
Communication among Rational Agents....Pages 203-226
The Evolution of Sharedplans....Pages 227-262
A Survey of Agent-Oriented Programming....Pages 263-274
A Situation Calculus Approach to Modeling and Programming Agents....Pages 275-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-301
