Artificial Intelligence Today Recent Trends and Developments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wooldridge, Michael J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Veloso, Manuela (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1600
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most fascinating and unusual areas of academic study to have emerged this century. For some, AI is a true scientific discipline, that has made important and fundamental contributions to the use of computation for our understanding of nature and phenomena of the...

Table of Contents:

• Behavioural Virtual Agents
• Logic-Based Knowledge Representation
• A Taxonomy of Theorem-Proving Strategies
• An Overview of Planning Under Uncertainty
• Knowledge Representation for Stochastic Decision Processes
• A Survey of Automated Deduction
• The World Wide Web as a Place for Agents
• Lifelike Pedagogical Agents and Affective Computing: An Exploratory Synthesis
• OBDD-based Universal Planning: Specifying and Solving Planning Problems for Synchronized Agents in Non-deterministic Domains
• Combining Artificial Intelligence and Databases for Data Integration
• "Underwater Love" Building Tristão and Isolda's Personalities
• An Oz-Centric Review of Interactive Drama and Believable Agents
• Robots with the Best of Intentions
• Agent-Based Project Management
• A System for Defeasible Argumentation, with Defeasible Priorities
• Handling Uncertainty in Control of Autonomous Robots
• The Event Calculus Explained
• Towards a Logic Programming Infrastructure for Internet Programming
• Towards Autonomous, Perceptive, and Intelligent Virtual Actors
• Temporally Invariant Junction Tree for Inference in Dynamic Bayesian Network.