The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology in human decision making. We need new technology to cope with the increasingly complex and information-rich nature of our modern society. This is particularly true for critical environments such as crisis management and traffic management, where humans need to engage in close collaborations with artificial systems to observe and understand the situation and respond in a sensible way. The book Interactive Collaborative Information Systems addresses techniques that support humans in situations in which complex information handling is required and that facilitate distributed decision-making. The theme integrates research from information technology, artificial intelligence and human sciences to obtain a multidisciplinary foundation from which innovative actor-agent systems for critical environments can emerge. It emphasizes the importance of building actor-agent communities: close collaborations between human and artificial actors that highlight their complementary capabilities in situations where task distribution is flexible and adaptive. This book focuses on the employment of innovative agent technology, advanced machine learning techniques, and cognition-based interface technology for the use in collaborative decision support systems.
Author(s): Lucian Buşoniu, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuška (auth.), Robert Babuška, Frans C. A. Groen (eds.)
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 281
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 586
Tags: Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning....Pages 3-44
Learning with Whom to Communicate Using Relational Reinforcement Learning....Pages 45-63
Switching between Representations in Reinforcement Learning....Pages 65-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Collaboration: Principal Description Methods and Efficient Heuristic Approximations....Pages 87-124
Efficient Methods for Near-Optimal Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty....Pages 125-153
Ant Colony Learning Algorithm for Optimal Control....Pages 155-182
Map-Based Support for Effective Collaboration in Micro-mobile Virtual Teams....Pages 183-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Affective Dialogue Management Using Factored POMDPs....Pages 207-236
Context-Aware Multimodal Human–Computer Interaction....Pages 237-272
Design Issues for Pen-Centric Interactive Maps....Pages 273-297
Interacting with Adaptive Systems....Pages 299-325
Example-Based Human Pose Recovery under Predicted Partial Occlusions....Pages 327-354
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Agility and Adaptive Autonomy in Networked Organizations....Pages 357-373
Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-agent Organizations....Pages 375-400
Method for Designing Networking Adaptive Interactive Hybrid Systems....Pages 401-421
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
A Call for Sensemaking Support Systems in Crisis Management....Pages 425-452
A Distributed Approach to Gas Detection and Source Localization Using Heterogeneous Information....Pages 453-474
Traffic Light Control by Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Systems....Pages 475-510
Fusing Heterogeneous and Unreliable Data from Traffic Sensors....Pages 511-545
Bayesian Networks for Expert Systems: Theory and Practical Applications....Pages 547-578
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