Co-ordination in Artificial Agent Societies Social Structures and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents /

• Main Author: Ossowski, Sascha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1535
• Subjects: Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Artificial Intelligence.

This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the different approaches to coordination in societies of artificial an human agents. Setting out from a critical assessment of the state of the art, the author develops a method of structuring multi-agent applications with a mechanism called structur...

Table of Contents:

• Co-ordination
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence
• Analysis
• Emergent Co-ordination by Structural Co-operation
• Structural Co-operation and Bargaining
• An Instrumentation of Structural Co-operation
• Road Traffic Management
• A Case Study
• Conclusions.