Intelligent Agents

by Wooldridge, Michael J.; Jennings, Nicholas R.

• ISBN13: 9783540588559
• ISBN10: 3540588558
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-14
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume coherently present 24 thoroughly revised full papers accepted for the ECAI-94 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages.There is currently considerable interest, from both the AI and the mainstream CS communities, in conceptualizing and building complex computer systems as collections of intelligent agents. This book is devoted to theoretical and practical aspects of architectural and language-related design and implementation issues of software agents. Particularly interesting is the comprehensive survey by the volume editors, which outlines the key issues and indicates, via a comprehensive bibliography, topics for further reading. In addition, a glossary of key terms in this emerging field and a comprehensive subject index is included.

Table of Contents

Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: A Survey	p. 1
Appendix A: Glossary of Key Terms	p. 22
Appendix B: Annotated List of Systems	p. 25
Changing Attitudes	p. 40
Guarantees for Autonomy in Cognitive Agent Architecture	p. 56
Multi-Agent Reasoning with Belief Contexts: the Approach and a Case Study	p. 71
Toward a Formal Model of Commitment for Resource Bounded Agents	p. 86
Compositional Formal Specification of Multi-Agent Systems	p. 102
Logical Reorganization of DAI Systems	p. 118
Logical Formalization of Concurrent Actions for Multi-Agent Systems	p. 129
Simulating Animal Societies with Adaptive Communicating Agents	p. 145
This is MyWorld: The Logic of an Agent-Oriented DAI Testbed	p. 160
A Knowledge Level Characterisation of Multi-Agent Systems	p. 179
Towards Anticipatory Agents	p. 191
Integrated Control and Coordinated Behaviour: a Case for Agent Models	p. 203
An Agent Architecture for Distributed Medical Care	p. 219
A Unified Approach to Intelligent Agency	p. 233
Where There's a Will There's an Agent	p. 245
Modelling Reactive Behaviour in Vertically Layered Agent Architectures	p. 261
Goal Creation in Motivated Agents	p. 277
Agent-Oriented Programming for Open Systems	p. 291
Representing and Executing Agent-Based Systems	p. 307
April - Agent PRocess Interaction Language	p. 324
DAISY: An Object-Oriented System for Distributed Artificial Intelligence	p. 341
The PLACA Agent Programming Language	p. 355
Roles, Skills and Behaviour: a Situated Action Approach to Organising Systems of Interacting Agents	p. 371
Design of a Concurrent Agent-Oriented Language	p. 386
Index	p. 403
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