Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications

by Sugumaran, Vijayan

• ISBN13: 9781605661445
• ISBN10: 1605661449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-31
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

"This book is a catalyst for emerging research in intelligent information, specifically artificial intelligent technologies and applications to assist in improving productivity in many roles such as assistants to human operators and autonomous decision-making components of complex systems"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Designing multi-agent systems from logic specifications : a case study	p. 1
Multi-agent architecture for knowledge-driven decision support	p. 28
A decision support system for trust formalization	p. 47
Using misunderstanding and discussion in dialog as a knowledge acquisition or enhancement process	p. 65
Improving e-trade auction volume by consortium	p. 91
Extending loosely coupled federated information systems using agent technology	p. 116
Modeling fault tolerant and secure mobile agent execution in distributed systems	p. 132
Search engine performance comparisons	p. 148
A user-centered approach for information retrieval	p. 165
Classification and retrieval of images from databases using rough set theory	p. 179
Supporting text retrieval by typographical term weighing	p. 199
Web mining by automatically organizing Web pages into categories	p. 214
Mining matrix pattern from mobile users	p. 232
Conceptual modeling of events for active information systems	p. 261
Information modeling and the problem of universals	p. 273
Empirical inference of numerical information into causal strategy models by means of artificial intelligence	p. 290
Improving mobile Web navigation using N-grams prediction models	p. 314
Forecasting supply chain demand using machine learning algorithms	p. 328
Supporting demand supply network optimization with Petri nets	p. 366
Compilation of references	p. 384
About the contributors	p. 416
Index	p. 423
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