Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems

Author : Jiming Liu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9812811842

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Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems by Jiming Liu Pdf

An autonomous agent is a computational system that acquires sensory data from its environment and decides by itself how to relate the external stimulus to its behaviors in order to attain certain goals. Responding to different stimuli received from its task environment, the agent may select and exhibit different behavioral patterns. The behavioral patterns may be carefully predefined or dynamically acquired by the agent based on some learning and adaptation mechanism(s). In order to achieve structural flexibility, reliability through redundancy, adaptability, and reconfigurability in real-world tasks, some researchers have started to address the issue of multiagent cooperation. Broadly speaking, the power of autonomous agents lies in their ability to deal with unpredictable, dynamically changing environments. Agent-based systems are becoming one of the most important computer technologies, holding out many promises for solving real-world problems. The aims of this book are to provide a guided tour to the pioneering work and the major technical issues in agent research, and to give an in-depth discussion on the computational mechanisms for behavioral engineering in autonomous agents. Through a systematic examination, the book attempts to provide the general design principles for building autonomous agents and the analytical tools for modeling the emerged behavioral properties of a multiagent system. Contents: Behavioral Modeling, Planning, and Learning; Synthetic Autonomy; Dynamics of Distributed Computation; Self-Organized Autonomy in Multi-Agent Systems; Autonomy-Oriented Computation; Dynamics and Complexity of Autonomy-Oriented Computation. Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and most engineering disciplines, as well as computer scientists, engineers, researchers and practitioners in the field of machine intelligence.

Author : Gerhard Weiss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262533874

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Multiagent Systems, second edition by Gerhard Weiss Pdf

The new edition of an introduction to multiagent systems that captures the state of the art in both theory and practice, suitable as textbook or reference. Multiagent systems are made up of multiple interacting intelligent agents—computational entities to some degree autonomous and able to cooperate, compete, communicate, act flexibly, and exercise control over their behavior within the frame of their objectives. They are the enabling technology for a wide range of advanced applications relying on distributed and parallel processing of data, information, and knowledge relevant in domains ranging from industrial manufacturing to e-commerce to health care. This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to multiagent systems, covering the field in both breadth and depth, and treating both theory and practice. It is suitable for classroom use or independent study. This second edition has been completely revised, capturing the tremendous developments in multiagent systems since the first edition appeared in 1999. Sixteen of the book's seventeen chapters were written for this edition; all chapters are by leaders in the field, with each author contributing to the broad base of knowledge and experience on which the book rests. The book covers basic concepts of computational agency from the perspective of both individual agents and agent organizations; communication among agents; coordination among agents; distributed cognition; development and engineering of multiagent systems; and background knowledge in logics and game theory. Each chapter includes references, many illustrations and examples, and exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. The chapters and the overall book are designed to be self-contained and understandable without additional material. Supplemental resources are available on the book's Web site. Contributors Rafael Bordini, Felix Brandt, Amit Chopra, Vincent Conitzer, Virginia Dignum, Jürgen Dix, Ed Durfee, Edith Elkind, Ulle Endriss, Alessandro Farinelli, Shaheen Fatima, Michael Fisher, Nicholas R. Jennings, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Evangelos Markakis, Lin Padgham, Julian Padget, Iyad Rahwan, Talal Rahwan, Alex Rogers, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Yoav Shoham, Munindar P. Singh, Kagan Tumer, Karl Tuyls, Wiebe van der Hoek, Laurent Vercouter, Meritxell Vinyals, Michael Winikoff, Michael Wooldridge, Shlomo Zilberstein

Author : Francesco Amigoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031562556

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Best and Visionary Papers by Francesco Amigoni Pdf

Author : Davide Calvaresi,Amro Najjar,Michael Schumacher,Kary Främling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030303914

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Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by Davide Calvaresi,Amro Najjar,Michael Schumacher,Kary Främling Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2019, held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2019. The 12 revised and extended papers presented were carefully selected from 23 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on explanation and transparency; explainable robots; opening the black box; explainable agent simulations; planning and argumentation; explainable AI and cognitive science.

Author : Gita Sukthankar,Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319716794

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems by Gita Sukthankar,Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar Pdf

This book compiles the most visionary papers from 10 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They deal with novel ideas proposing a change in the way research is currently carried out.

Author : Maria Gini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Autonomous robots
ISBN : 1450319939

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Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems by Maria Gini Pdf

Author : Nardine Osman,Carles Sierra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319468822

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems by Nardine Osman,Carles Sierra Pdf

This book features a selection of best papers from 11 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, in Singapore in May 2016.The 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

Author : Peter Stone
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262264609

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Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems by Peter Stone Pdf

This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. The book makes four main contributions to the fields of machine learning and multiagent systems. First, it describes an architecture within which a flexible team structure allows member agents to decompose a task into flexible roles and to switch roles while acting. Second, it presents layered learning, a general-purpose machine-learning method for complex domains in which learning a mapping directly from agents' sensors to their actuators is intractable with existing machine-learning methods. Third, the book introduces a new multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm—team-partitioned, opaque-transition reinforcement learning (TPOT-RL)—designed for domains in which agents cannot necessarily observe the state-changes caused by other agents' actions. The final contribution is a fully functioning multiagent system that incorporates learning in a real-time, noisy domain with teammates and adversaries—a computer-simulated robotic soccer team. Peter Stone's work is the basis for the CMUnited Robotic Soccer Team, which has dominated recent RoboCup competitions. RoboCup not only helps roboticists to prove their theories in a realistic situation, but has drawn considerable public and professional attention to the field of intelligent robotics. The CMUnited team won the 1999 Stockholm simulator competition, outscoring its opponents by the rather impressive cumulative score of 110-0.

Author : Gita Sukthankar,Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319716824

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems by Gita Sukthankar,Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar Pdf

This book features a selection of best papers from 13 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

Author : Olivier Boissier,Rafael H. Bordini,Jomi Hubner,Alessandro Ricci
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262360661

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Multi-Agent Oriented Programming by Olivier Boissier,Rafael H. Bordini,Jomi Hubner,Alessandro Ricci Pdf

The main concepts and techniques of multi-agent oriented programming, which supports the multi-agent systems paradigm at the programming level. A multi-agent system is an organized ensemble of autonomous, intelligent, goal-oriented entities called agents, communicating with each other and interacting within an environment. This book introduces the main concepts and techniques of multi-agent oriented programming, (MAOP) which supports the multi-agent systems paradigm at the programming level. MAOP provides a structured approach based on three integrated dimensions, which the book examines in detail: the agent dimension, used to design the individual (interacting) entities; the environment dimension, which allows the development of shared resources and connections to the real world; and the organization dimension, which structures the interactions among the autonomous agents and the shared environment.

Author : Francisco S. Melo,Fei Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031201790

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Best and Visionary Papers by Francisco S. Melo,Fei Fang Pdf

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected best and visionary papers from the Workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2022, which took place online, during May 9–13, 2022. The 5 best papers and 4 visionary papers included in this book stem from the following workshops: - 13th Workshop on Optimization and Learning in Multi-agent Systems (OptLearnMAS);- 23rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS);- 6th Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS);- 10th Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS);- 1st Workshop on Rebellion and Disobedience in AI (RaD-AI). There was a total of 59 submissions to these workshops.

Author : Davide Calvaresi,Amro Najjar,Michael Winikoff,Kary Främling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030519247

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Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by Davide Calvaresi,Amro Najjar,Michael Winikoff,Kary Främling Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2020, which was due to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8 revised and extended papers were carefully selected from 20 submissions and are presented here with one demo paper. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: explainable agents; cross disciplinary XAI; explainable machine learning; demos.

Author : Ana Bazzan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1754 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Distributed artificial intelligence
ISBN : 1450327389

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AAMAS '14 by Ana Bazzan Pdf

Author : Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470519462

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An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems by Michael Wooldridge Pdf

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as software programs or robots. Their interactions can either be cooperative (for example as in an ant colony) or selfish (as in a free market economy). This book assumes only basic knowledge of algorithms and discrete maths, both of which are taught as standard in the first or second year of computer science degree programmes. A basic knowledge of artificial intelligence would useful to help understand some of the issues, but is not essential. The book’s main aims are: To introduce the student to the concept of agents and multi-agent systems, and the main applications for which they are appropriate To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of intelligent agents To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of a multi-agent society To introduce a number of typical applications for agent technology After reading the book the student should understand: The notion of an agent, how agents are distinct from other software paradigms (e.g. objects) and the characteristics of applications that lend themselves to agent-oriented software The key issues associated with constructing agents capable of intelligent autonomous action and the main approaches taken to developing such agents The key issues in designing societies of agents that can effectively cooperate in order to solve problems, including an understanding of the key types of multi-agent interactions possible in such systems The main application areas of agent-based systems

Author : Nardine Osman,Carles Sierra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319468402

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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems by Nardine Osman,Carles Sierra Pdf

This book constitutes the most visionary papers of the AAMAS 2016 Workshops, held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the 12 workshops. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.