The Design Of Intelligent Agents

Author : Jörg P. Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Lin Padgham,Michael Winikoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Michael Gelfond,Yulia Kahl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107029569

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Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents by Michael Gelfond,Yulia Kahl Pdf

This in-depth introduction for students and researchers shows how to use ASP for intelligent tasks, including answering queries, planning, and diagnostics.

Author : Gheorghe Tecuci
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0126851255

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Building Intelligent Agents by Gheorghe Tecuci Pdf

Building Intelligent Agents is unique in its comprehensive coverage of the subject. The first part of the book presents an original theory for building intelligent agents and a methodology and tool that implement the theory. The second part of the book presents complex and detailed case studies of building different types of agents: an educational assessment agent, a statistical analysis assessment and support agent, an engineering design assistant, and a virtual military commander. Also featured in this book is Disciple, a toolkit for building interactive agents which function in much the same way as a human apprentice. Disciple-based agents can reason both with incomplete information, but also with information that is potentially incorrect. This approach, in which the agent learns its behavior from its teacher, integrates many machine learning and knowledge acquisition techniques, taking advantage of their complementary strengths to compensate for each others weakness. As a consequence, it significantly reduces (or even eliminates) the involvement of a knowledge engineer in the process of building an intelligent agent.

Author : Ning Zhong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Chengqui Zhang,Von-Wun Soo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662183536

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Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents by Chengqui Zhang,Von-Wun Soo Pdf

Author : Nicholas R. Jennings,Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

Author : Chengqui Zhang,Von-Wun Soo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540445944

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Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents by Chengqui Zhang,Von-Wun Soo Pdf

PRIMA 2000 was the third in the series of Paci c Rim International Workshops on Multi-Agents. It was held on August 28-29, 2000, in Melbourne, Australia in conjunction with the Paci c Rim International Conference on Arti cial Intel- gence 2000. PRIMA is the main forum for the agent or multi-agent researchers in paci c rim countries to exchange and discuss their research results. This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2000. It covers theory, design, and applications of intelligent agents. The speci c aspects include co- dination, negotiation, learning, architecture, speci cation, allocation, and app- cation of intelligent agents. All papers are of high quality because each of them was reviewed and recommended by at least two international renowned program committee members. Many people contributed to this volume. We would like to thank all the a- hors who submitted papers to the workshop. Many thanks also to the members of the program committee who diligently reviewed all the papers. Finally, we thank the editorial sta of Springer-Verlag for publishing this volume in the Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence series.

Author : Tibor Bosse
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Mukesh Patel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262162016

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Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents by Mukesh Patel Pdf

This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning. Among the first uses of the computer was the development of programs to model perception, reasoning, learning, and evolution. Further developments resulted in computers and programs that exhibit aspects of intelligent behavior. The field of artificial intelligence is based on the premise that thought processes can be computationally modeled. Computational molecular biology brought a similar approach to the study of living systems. In both cases, hypotheses concerning the structure, function, and evolution of cognitive systems (natural as well as synthetic) take the form of computer programs that store, organize, manipulate, and use information. Systems whose information processing structures are fully programmed are difficult to design for all but the simplest applications. Real-world environments call for systems that are able to modify their behavior by changing their information processing structures. Cognitive and information structures and processes, embodied in living systems, display many effective designs for biological intelligent agents. They are also a source of ideas for designing artificial intelligent agents. This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning. The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary design scalable, the use of evolutionary search in conjunction with local learning algorithms, and the extension of evolutionary search in novel directions.

Author : Weiming Shen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Michael Gelfond. Yulia Kahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107779464

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Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents by Michael Gelfond. Yulia Kahl Pdf

Author : Michael Knapik,Jay Johnson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015040618285

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Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems by Michael Knapik,Jay Johnson Pdf

Now professional software developers working in highly complex distributed environments can learn how to create agents for client/server environments. This book clearly explains the programming of agents for improving user interfaces, for improving performance and usability of LANS and WANS, for managing mail, and even for assisting in the development of other software.

Author : Cristiano Castelfranchi,Yves Lesperance
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Kerstin Dautenhahn,Alan H. Bond,Lola Canamero,Bruce Edmonds
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780306473739

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Socially Intelligent Agents by Kerstin Dautenhahn,Alan H. Bond,Lola Canamero,Bruce Edmonds Pdf

Socially situated planning provides one mechanism for improving the social awareness ofagents. Obviously this work isin the preliminary stages and many of the limitation and the relationship to other work could not be addressed in such a short chapter. The chief limitation, of course, is the strong commitment to de?ning social reasoning solely atthe meta-level, which restricts the subtlety of social behavior. Nonetheless, our experience in some real-world military simulation applications suggest that the approach, even in its preliminary state, is adequate to model some social interactions, and certainly extends the sta- of-the art found in traditional training simulation systems. Acknowledgments This research was funded by the Army Research Institute under contract TAPC-ARI-BR References [1] J. Gratch. Emile: Marshalling passions in training and education. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 325–332, New York, 2000. ACM Press. [2] J. Gratch and R. Hill. Continous planning and collaboration for command and control in joint synthetic battlespaces. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, 1999. [3] B. Grosz and S. Kraus. Collaborative plans for complex group action. Arti?cial Intelli gence, 86(2):269–357, 1996. [4] A. Ortony, G. L. Clore, and A. Collins. The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Cambridge University Press, 1988. [5] R.W.PewandA.S.Mavor,editors. Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior. National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1998.