Soft Computing Agents New Trends for Designing Autonomous Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sessa, Salvatore (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 75
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence.
• Physical Description: VIII, 220 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783790818154
• ISSN: 1434-9922 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-1815-4

In the existing literature the intersection of agent technology with soft computing is a very recent and attractive issue. The book is devoted to a unifying perspective of this topic. In contains contributions by well-known authors whose expertise is universally recognized in these crossing areas. Particular emphasis is devoted to advanced research projects involved with Web-related technologies. Fundamental topics explored in this volume are: - formal theories and logics to represent and handle imprecise communications acts among communities of agents; - soft-computing approaches to define distributed problem-solving techniques to represent and reason about large-scale control systems; - decomposition of a complex system into autonomous or semiautonomous agents through evolutionary models; - enrichment of agent programming paradigm for cooperative soft-computing processing.