Intelligent Agent Systems: Theoretical and Practical Issues Theoretical and Practical Issues. Based on a Workshop Held at PRICAI '96, Cairns, Australia, August 26-30, 1996 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cavedon, Lawrence (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rao, Anand (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wobcke, Wayne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1209
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Software engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Artificial Intelligence.; Software Engineering.; Computer Communication Networks.

The agents approach is not just another abstract computing paradigm, but has matured during recent years into a booming research area and software engineering technology which holds great promise for the design and application of complex distributed systems. This book presents 12 revised full chapte...

Table of Contents:

• Control architectures for autonomous and interacting agents: A survey
• An experiment in using Golog to build a personal banking assistant
• An agent-based architecture for software tool coordination
• A system for modelling agents having emotion and personality
• Commitments in the architecture of a limited, rational agent
• Dynamic goal hierarchies
• Limited logical belief analysis
• Semantics of BDI agents and their environment
• Constructing finite state implementations of knowledge-based programs with perfect recall (Extended abstract)
• Social and individual commitment
• Emergent properties of teams of agents in the Tileworld
• How do autonomous agents solve social dilemmas?.