The agents approach is not just another abstract computing paradigm, but has matured during recent years into a booming research area and software engineering technology which holds great promise for the design and application of complex distributed systems.
This book presents 12 revised full chapters grouped around 3 main topics in intelligent agent systems; agent architectures, formal theories of rationality and cooperation and collaboration. Among the topics addressed are software agents, BDI architectures, social commitment, believable agents and artificial life. The book is based on the Workshop on Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Intelligent Agents held at the Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Cairns, Australia, in August 1996.
Author(s): Jörg P. Müller (auth.), Lawrence Cavedon, Anand Rao, Wayne Wobcke (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1209 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 192
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks
Control architectures for autonomous and interacting agents: A survey....Pages 1-26
An experiment in using Golog to build a personal banking assistant....Pages 27-43
An agent-based architecture for software tool coordination....Pages 44-58
A system for modelling agents having emotion and personality....Pages 59-71
Commitments in the architecture of a limited, rational agent....Pages 72-87
Dynamic goal hierarchies....Pages 88-103
Limited logical belief analysis....Pages 104-118
Semantics of BDI agents and their environment....Pages 119-134
Constructing finite state implementations of knowledge-based programs with perfect recall (Extended abstract)....Pages 135-151
Social and individual commitment....Pages 152-163
Emergent properties of teams of agents in the Tileworld....Pages 164-176
How do autonomous agents solve social dilemmas?....Pages 177-188
