Intelligent Agent Systems

Author : Lin Padgham,Michael Winikoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470861219

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Developing Intelligent Agent Systems by Lin Padgham,Michael Winikoff Pdf

Build your own intelligent agent system... Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programmes that behave rationally in dynamic and changing environments. Applications range from small programmes that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This powerful technology is not widely used, however, as developing intelligent agent software requires high levels of training and skill. The authors of this book have developed and tested a methodology and tools for developing intelligent agent systems. With this methodology (Prometheus) developers can start agent-oriented designs and implementations easily from scratch saving valuable time and resources. Developing Intelligent Agent Systems not only answers the questions “what are agents?” and “why are they useful?” but also the crucial question: “how do I design and build intelligent agent systems?” The book covers everything a practitioner needs to know to begin to effectively use this technology - including an introduction to the notion of agents, a description of the concepts involved, and a software engineering methodology. Read on for: a practical step-by-step introduction to designing and building intelligent agent systems. a full life-cycle methodology for developing intelligent agent systems covering specification, analysis, design and implementation of agents. PDT: Prometheus Design Tool – software support for the Prometheus design process. the example of an electronic bookstore to illustrate the design process throughout the book. Electronic resources including the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT), can be found at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/prometheus This book is aimed at industrial software developers, software engineers and at advanced undergraduate students. It assumes knowledge of basic software engineering but does not require knowledge of Artificial Intelligence or of mathematics. Familiarity with Java will help in reading the examples in chapter 10.

Author : Jörg P. Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540620036

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The Design of Intelligent Agents by Jörg P. Müller Pdf

This monograph presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey on approaches to the design of intelligent agents. On the theoretical side, the author identifies a set of general requirements for autonomous interacting agents and provides an essential step towards understanding the principles of intelligent agents. On the practical side, the novel agent architecture InteRRaP is introduced: the detailed description and evaluation of this architecture is an ideal guideline and case study for software engineers or researchers faced with the task of building an agent system. The book uniquely bridges the gap between theory and practice; it addresses active and novice researchers as well as practitioners interested in applicable agent technology.

Author : Jaeho Lee,Mike Barley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540398967

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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by Jaeho Lee,Mike Barley Pdf

Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the birth of PRIMA (Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents). The ?rst PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th Paci?c Rim Inter- tional Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul, Korea. During a period of ?ve years, the notion of agent research has grown so much that we hear the term agent on a daily basis. Various ?elds such as business, the Web, software engineering, on-line games and such are now using the term agent as a placeholder, just like the term object is used in the object-oriented paradigm. On the other hand, the research area has extended toward real applications, such as the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing. The themes of PRIMA 2003 re?ected the following trends: – agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets – agent architectures and their applications – agent communication languages, dialog and interaction protocols – agent ontologies – agent programming languages, frameworks and toolkits – agentcities – agents and grid computing – agents and peer computing –agentsandtheSemanticWeb – agents and Web services – arti?cial social systems – con?ict resolution and negotiation – evaluation of multi-agent systems – languages and techniques for describing (multi-)agent systems – meta modeling and meta reasoning – multi-agent planning and learning – multi-agent systems and their applications – social reasoning, agent modeling, and organization – standards for agents and multi-agent systems – teams and coalitions – ubiquitous agents

Author : Ning Zhong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789810247065

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Intelligent Agent Technology by Ning Zhong Pdf

This volume is an attempt to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art of intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportunities that it is or will be facing. The most important feature of the volume is that it emphasizes a multi-faceted, holistic view of this emerging technology, from its computational foundations ? in terms of models, methodologies, and tools for developing a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems ? to its practical impact on tackling real-world problems.

Author : Michael Wayne Barley,Nik Kasabov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540321286

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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by Michael Wayne Barley,Nik Kasabov Pdf

This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2004, the 7th Pacific Rim InternationalWorkshop on Multi-agents, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during August 8–13, 2004 in conjunction with the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004).

Author : Cristiano Castelfranchi,Yves Lesperance
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540424222

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Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages by Cristiano Castelfranchi,Yves Lesperance Pdf

Intelligent agents are one of the most important developments in computer science of the past decade. Agents are of interest in many important application areas, ranging from human-computer interaction to industrial process control. The ATAL workshop series aims to bring together researchers interested in the core/micro aspects of agent technology. Speci?cally, ATAL addresses issues such as theories of agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for r- lizing agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. One of the strengthsoftheATALworkshopseriesisitsemphasisonthesynergiesbetweentheories, languages, architectures, infrastructures, methodologies, and formal methods. This year s workshop continued the ATAL trend of attracting a large number of high quality submissions. In more detail, 71 papers were submitted to the ATAL 2000 workshop, from 21 countries. After stringent reviewing, 22 papers were accepted for publication and appear in these proceedings. As with previous workshops in the series, we chose to emphasize what we perceive asimportantnewthemesinagentresearch. Thisyear sthemeswerebothassociatedwith the fact that the technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is beginning to migrate from research labs to software engineering centers. As agents are deployed in applications such as electronic commerce, and start to take over responsibilities for their human users, techniques for controlling their autonomy become crucial. As well, the availability of tools that facilitate the design and implementation of agent systems becomes an important factor in how rapidly the technology will achieve widespread use.

Author : Gordan Jezic,Yun-Heh Jessica Chen-Burger,Robert J. Howlett,Lakhmi C. Jain,Ljubo Vlacic,Roman Šperka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319920313

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Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2018 by Gordan Jezic,Yun-Heh Jessica Chen-Burger,Robert J. Howlett,Lakhmi C. Jain,Ljubo Vlacic,Roman Šperka Pdf

This book highlights new trends and challenges in agent systems, and new digital and knowledge economy research, and includes 34 papers on areas such as intelligent agent interaction and collaboration, modeling, simulation and mobile agents, agent communication and social networks, business Informatics, design and implementation of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. These papers were presented at the 12th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2018) held on Australia’s Gold Coast. The modern economy is driven by technologies and knowledge. Digital technologies can free, shift and multiply choices, often intruding on the space of other industries, by providing new ways of conducting business operations and creating values for customers and companies. The book addresses topics that contribute to the modern digital economy, including software agents, multi-agent systems, agent modeling, mobile and cloud computing, big data analysis, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, social systems, computer embedded systems and nature inspired manufacturing, which contribute to the modern digital economy. The results presented are of theoretical and practical value to researchers and industrial practitioners working in the fields of artificial intelligence, collective computational intelligence, innovative business models, new digital and knowledge economy and, in particular, agent and multi-agent systems, technologies, tools and applications.

Author : Zili Zhang (Ph.D.),Chengqi Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540209089

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Agent-Based Hybrid Intelligent Systems by Zili Zhang (Ph.D.),Chengqi Zhang Pdf

Solving complex problems in real-world contexts, such as financial investment planning or mining large data collections, involves many different sub-tasks, each of which requires different techniques. To deal with such problems, a great diversity of intelligent techniques are available, including traditional techniques like expert systems approaches and soft computing techniques like fuzzy logic, neural networks, or genetic algorithms. These techniques are complementary approaches to intelligent information processing rather than competing ones, and thus better results in problem solving are achieved when these techniques are combined in hybrid intelligent systems. Multi-Agent Systems are ideally suited to model the manifold interactions among the many different components of hybrid intelligent systems. This book introduces agent-based hybrid intelligent systems and presents a framework and methodology allowing for the development of such systems for real-world applications. The authors focus on applications in financial investment planning and data mining.

Author : Tibor Bosse
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614990499

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Agents and Ambient Intelligence by Tibor Bosse Pdf

The concept of an intelligent agent - a computational system capable of performing certain tasks autonomously - derived from the growing potential of digital computers in the mid 20th century and had been widely adopted by the early 1990s. Partly in parallel with this concept, the perspective of ambient intelligence (AmI) emerged in the late 1990s. Agent technology and AmI have many similarities, and the main purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of the scientific area that integrates these two. The book addresses a wide variety of topics related to agents and AmI, including theoretical, practical, design, implementation, ethical and philosophical issues. The 12 chapters are arranged in four sections. The first consists of three chapters discussing ethical and philosophical issues; the second part explores various approaches that can be used to develop agent-based AmI Systems; the third part contains three chapters that share the goal to endow AmI systems with useful properties like intelligence and adaptivity and the last section presents concrete applications of agent-based AmI systems. This book provides an insight into recent achievements and future challenges at the intersection of agent technology and ambient intelligence and will assist the development of more intelligent, flexible, effective and user-friendly systems as well as posing critical questions about the future of the role of agents within the AmI perspective.

Author : Lawrence Cavedon,Anand Rao,Wayne Wobcke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662200325

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Intelligent Agent Systems by Lawrence Cavedon,Anand Rao,Wayne Wobcke Pdf

Author : Weiming Shen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482289251

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Multi-Agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and Manufacturing by Weiming Shen Pdf

Agent Technology, or Agent-Based Approaches, is a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthrough in software development', and 'the new revolution in software' after object technology or object-oriented programming. In this context, an agent is a computer system which is capable of act

Author : Jörg Müller,Munindar P. Singh,Anand S. Rao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540490579

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Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages by Jörg Müller,Munindar P. Singh,Anand S. Rao Pdf

The leading edge of computer science research is notoriously ?ckle. New trends come and go with alarming and unfailing regularity. In such a rapidly changing ?eld, the fact that research interest in a subject lasts more than a year is worthy of note. The fact that, after ?ve years, interest not only remains, but actually continues to grow is highly unusual. As 1998 marked the ?fth birthday of the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), it seemed appropriate for the organizers of the original workshop to comment on this remarkable growth, and re ect on how the ?eld has developed and matured. The ?rst ATAL workshop was co-located with the Eleventh European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI-94), which was held in Amsterdam. The fact that we chose an AI conference to co-locate with is telling: at that time, we expected most researchers with an interest in agents to come from the AI community. The workshop, whichwasplannedoverthesummerof1993,attracted32submissions,andwasattended by 55 people.ATAL was the largest workshop at ECAI-94, and the clear enthusiasm on behalfofthecommunitymadethedecisiontoholdanotherATALworkshopsimple.The ATAL-94proceedingswereformallypublishedinJanuary1995underthetitleIntelligent Agents, and included an extensive review article, a glossary, a list of key agent systems, and — unusually for the proceedings of an academic workshop — a full subject index. Thehighscienti?candproductionvaluesembodiedbytheATAL-94proceedingsappear to have been recognized by the community, and resulted inATAL proceedings being the most successful sequence of books published in Springer-Verlag s Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series.

Author : Goran Trajkovski
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1609601718

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Developments in Intelligent Agent Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems by Goran Trajkovski Pdf

"This book discusses research on emerging technologies and systems based on agent and multi-agent paradigms across various fields of science, engineering and technology, offering a collection that covers conceptual frameworks, case studies, and analysis"--

Author : Rajiv Khosla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461562238

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Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems by Rajiv Khosla Pdf

Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems is about building intelligent hybrid systems. Included is coverage of applications and design concepts related to fusion systems, transformation systems and combination systems. These applications are in areas involving hybrid configurations of knowledge-based systems, case-based reasoning, fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and in knowledge discovery and data mining. Through examples and applications a synergy of these subjects is demonstrated. The authors introduce a multi-agent architectural theory for engineering intelligent associative hybrid systems. The architectural theory is described at both the task structure level and the computational level. This problem-solving architecture is relevant for developing knowledge agents and information agents. An enterprise-wide system modeling framework is outlined to facilitate forward and backward integration of systems developed in the knowledge, information, and data engineering layers of an organization. In the modeling process, software engineering aspects like agent oriented analysis, design and reuse are developed and described. Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems is the first book in the field to provide details of a multi-agent architecture for building intelligent hybrid systems.

Author : Nicholas R. Jennings,Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662036785

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Agent Technology by Nicholas R. Jennings,Michael J. Wooldridge Pdf

The first book to provide an integrative presentation of the issues, challenges and success of designing, building and using agent applications. The chapters presented are written by internationally leading authorities in the field, with a general audience in mind. The result is a unique overview of agent technology applications, ranging from an introduction to the technical foundations to reports on dealing with specific agent systems in practice.