عنوان

Understanding Agent Systems

(Number (ISBN

3662107023

(Number (ISBN

9783662107027

Number

b580512

Title Proper

Understanding Agent Systems

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck.

Edition Statement

Second edition, revised and Extended

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xix, 240 pages)

Series Title

Springer series on agent technology.

Text of Note

The Agent Landscape --; The SMART Agent Framework --; Agent Relationships --; An Operational Analysis of Agent Relationships --; Sociological Agents --; Autonomous Interaction --; The Contract Net as a Goal Directed System --; Computational Architecture for BDI Agents --; Evaluating Social Dependence Networks --; Normative Agents --; actSMART: Building a SMART System --; Conclusions --; A. The Z Specification Language --; References --; Index.

Text of Note

This book helps to organise the diverse landscape of agent-based systems by applying formal methods to provide a defining and encompassing agent framework. The Z specification language is used to provide an accessible and unified formal account of agent systems and inter-agent relationships. In particular, the framework precisely and unambiguously provides meanings for common concepts and terms for agent systems, enables alternative agent models and architectures to be described within it, and provides a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly more refined agent concepts. It describes agents, the relationships between them and the requisite capabilities for effective functioning in multi-agent systems, and is applied in different case studies. In the second edition the authors have revised and updated the existing chapters of the book to respond to advice from readers of the first edition, to add references to recent work in agent systems, and generally to bring the content up to date. They have extended the introduction and conclusions chapters to include a better review of the field and the current state of the art. This new edition features chapters on agent interaction and norms, and outlines an implementation framework. The book will appeal equally to researchers, students and technologists interested in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

Computer Communication Networks.

Computer science.

Software engineering.

by Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck.

Mark D'Inverno

Michael Luck

Electronic name

[Book]

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