The Biology And Technology Of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642796296

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The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents by Luc Steels Pdf

The NATO sponsored Advanced Study Institute 'The Biology and Tech nology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents' was an extraordinary event. For two weeks it brought together the leading proponents of the new behavior oriented approach to Artificial Intelligence in Castel Ivano near Trento. The goal of the meeting was to establish a solid scientific and technological foun dation for the field of intelligent autonomous agents with a bias towards the new methodologies and techniques that have recently been developed in Ar tificial Intelligence under the strong influence of biology. Major themes of the conference were: bottom-up AI research, artificial life, neural networks and techniques of emergent functionality. The meeting was such an extraordinary event because it not only featured very high quality lectures on autonomous agents and the various fields feeding it, but also robot laboratories which were set up by the MIT AI laboratory (with a lab led by Rodney Brooks) and the VUB AI laboratory (with labs led by Tim Smithers and Luc Steels). This way the participants could also gain practical experience and discuss in concreto what the difficulties and achievements were of different approaches. In fact, the meeting has been such a success that a follow up meeting is planned for September 1995 in Monte Verita (Switzerland). This meeting is organised by Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich).

Author : Stefano Nolfi,Dario Floreano
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262140705

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Evolutionary Robotics by Stefano Nolfi,Dario Floreano Pdf

An overview of the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics, which views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention.

Author : Dario Floreano,Claudio Mattiussi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262547734

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Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence by Dario Floreano,Claudio Mattiussi Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of biological structures that that are capable of autonomous self-organization. Examples of these new approaches include evolutionary computation and evolutionary electronics, artificial neural networks, immune systems, biorobotics, and swarm intelligence—to mention only a few. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of biologically inspired artificial intelligence that can be used as an upper-level text or as a reference for researchers. Each chapter presents computational approaches inspired by a different biological system; each begins with background information about the biological system and then proceeds to develop computational models that make use of biological concepts. The chapters cover evolutionary computation and electronics; cellular systems; neural systems, including neuromorphic engineering; developmental systems; immune systems; behavioral systems—including several approaches to robotics, including behavior-based, bio-mimetic, epigenetic, and evolutionary robots; and collective systems, including swarm robotics as well as cooperative and competitive co-evolving systems. Chapters end with a concluding overview and suggested reading.

Author : Pattie Maes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262631350

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Designing Autonomous Agents by Pattie Maes Pdf

Designing Autonomous Agents provides a summary and overview of the radically different architectures that have been developed over the past few years for organizing robots. These architectures have led to major breakthroughs that promise to revolutionize the study of autonomous agents and perhaps artificial intelligence in general. The new architectures emphasize more direct coupling of sensing to action, distributedness and decentralization, dynamic interaction with the environment, and intrinsic mechanisms to cope with limited resources and incomplete knowledge. The research discussed here encompasses such important ideas as emergent functionality, task-level decomposition, and reasoning methods such as analogical representations and visual operations that make the task of perception more realistic. Contents A Biological Perspective on Autonomous Agent Design, Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel, Leon S. Sterling * Elephants Don't Play Chess, Rodney A. Brooks * What Are Plans For? Philip E. Agre and David Chapman * Action and Planning in Embedded Agents, Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Stanley J. Rosenschein * Situated Agents Can Have Goals, Pattie Maes * Exploiting Analogical Representations, Luc Steels * Internalized Plans: A Representation for Action Resources, David W. Payton * Integrating Behavioral, Perceptual, and World Knowledge in Reactive Navigation, Ronald C. Arkin * Symbol Grounding via a Hybrid Architecture in an Autonomous Assembly System, Chris Malcolm and Tim Smithers * Animal Behavior as a Paradigm for Developing Robot Autonomy, Tracy L. Anderson and Max Donath

Author : Stefano Nolfi,Dario Floreano,Director Dario Floreano
Publisher : Bradford Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262140705

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Evolutionary Robotics by Stefano Nolfi,Dario Floreano,Director Dario Floreano Pdf

An overview of the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics, which views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention.

Author : Jiming Liu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789810242824

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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.

Author : George A. Bekey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Autonomous robots
ISBN : 0262025787

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Autonomous Robots by George A. Bekey Pdf

An introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technology.

Author : Nardine Osman,Carles Sierra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : Ning Zhong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : George A. Bekey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461557357

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Autonomous Agents by George A. Bekey Pdf

An agent is a system capable of perceiving the environment, reasoning with the percepts and then acting upon the world. Agents can be purely software systems, in which case their percepts and output `actions' are encoded binary strings. However, agents can also be realized in hardware, and then they are robots. The Artificial Intelligence community frequently views robots as embodied intelligent agents. The First International Conference on Autonomous Agents was held in Santa Monica, California, in February 1997. This conference brought together researchers from around the world with interests in agents, whether implemented purely in software or in hardware. The conference featured such topics as intelligent software agents, agents in virtual environments, agents in the entertainment industry, and robotic agents. Papers on robotic agents were selected for this volume. Autonomous Agents will be of interest to researchers and students in the area of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Author : Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415193346

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Artificial Intelligence by Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer Pdf

Author : T. Bosse
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614990505

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Agents and Ambient Intelligence by T. 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 : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540449331

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Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering by Michael Schumacher Pdf

Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system. Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

Author : Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540245759

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Environments for Multi-Agent Systems by Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel Pdf

This modern field of multi-agent systems has developed from two main lines of earlier research: its practitioners generally regard it as a form of distributed artificial intelligence, whereas some researchers have persistently advocated ideas from the field of artificial life. AI agents (and their designers) usually take the environment for agent interaction as granted. From the ALife perspective and for ALife agents, the environment for interaction is an active participant in agent dynamics, a first class member of the overall systems. This book originates from the First International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, E4MAS 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2004. The 13 carefully selected reviewed and revised papers presented together with an introductory survey article of close to 50 pages are organized in topical sections on conceptual models, language for design and specification, simulation and environments, mediated coordination, and applications.

Author : S.G. Tzafestas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401147903

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Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Systems by S.G. Tzafestas Pdf

This collection of twenty-three timely contributions covers a well-selected repertory of topics within the autonomous systems field. The book discusses a range of design, construction, control, and operation problems along with a multiplicity of well-established and novel solutions.