Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems 12th International Conference, PRIMA 2009, Nagoya, Japan, December 14-16, 2009. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Jung-Jin (Editor), Yokoo, Makoto (Editor), Ito, Takayuki (Editor), Jin, Zhi (Editor), Scerri, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5925
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Software engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Simulation and Modeling.; Software Engineering.

Agents are software processes that perceive and act in an environment, processing their perceptions to make intelligent decisions about actions to achieve their goals. Multi-agent systems have multiple agents that work in the same environment to achieve either joint or conflicting goals. Agent compu...