Author: Michael Wooldridge
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: agents, autonomous, robotics, intelligent, reasoning, rational
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2000-07-14
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0262232138
ISBN-13: 9780262232135

One goal of modern computer science is to engineer computer programs that can act as autonomous, rational agents; software that can independently make good decisions about what actions to perform on our behalf and execute those actions. Applications range from small programs that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This book focuses on the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agents, which recognizes the primacy of beliefs, desires, and intentions in rational action. The BDI model has three distinct stren

Authors:Steven Specter, Mauro Bendinelli, Herman Friedman,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: agents, infectious, pathogenesis, detection, rapid
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0306458489
ISBN-13: 9780306458484

Busy clinicians and health practitioners recognize the importance of speedy detection of pathogens to impede the further spread of infection, and to ensure their patients’ rapid and complete recovery. This reader-friendly reference is a unique collection of the newest and most effective diagnostic techniques currently in use in clinical and research laboratories. Instructive commentary regarding the application of these often complex methods is provided. This essential text aids readers in selecting the most efficient method, finding the necessary resources, and avoiding the most

Authors:Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, Peter Stone,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: autonomous, agents, competition, robotics, intelligent, agent, lessons, bidding, strategies, trading
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 026223260X
ISBN-13: 9780262232609

E-commerce increasingly provides opportunities for autonomous bidding agents: computer programs that bid in electronic markets without direct human intervention. Automated bidding strategies for an auction of a single good with a known valuation are fairly straightforward; designing strategies for simultaneous auctions with interdependent valuations is a more complex undertaking. This book presents algorithmic advances and strategy ideas within an integrated bidding agent architecture that have emerged from recent work in this fast-growing area of research in academia and industry. The auth

Author: Charles A. Jaffe
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: financial, agents, tax, lawyers, preparers, bankers, estate, real, insurance, brokers, complete, hire, way, guide, choosing, right, managing, planners
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-02-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0262600439
ISBN-13: 9780262600439

Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on sound research. In engaging, accessible prose, nationally syndicated columnist Charles A. Jaffe takes the reader through the basics of how to locate appropriate candidates, understand their credentials, check references, conduct initial interviews, maintain control of the relationships and one’s finances, and fire an adviser who is not working out. The book contains guidance on hirin

Authors:Walter van de Velde, John Perram,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: agents, netherlands, eindhoven, january, lecture, intelligence, artificial, notes, maamaw, world, european, breaking, workshop, modelling, multi, autonomous, agent
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-02-22
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 3540608524
ISBN-13: 9783540608523

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW ’96, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in January 1996. The concept of agents comprises physical as well as software agents; it emerged at the crossroads of distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems. Multi-agent systems are foundational for new models of computing and interaction addressing large-scale open distributed platforms like the World-Wide Web. The 17 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 51 su

Authors:Jörg P. Müller, Munindar P. Singh, Anand S. Rao,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: agents, proceedings, july, lecture, artificial, intelligence, france, notes, atal, architectures, theories, languages, international, intelligent, workshop, paris
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 1999-04-14
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 3540657134
ISBN-13: 9783540657132

This book is the fifth in the successful line of Intelligent Agents volumes published in LNAI. It is based on the fifth workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL’98) held during the Agents World conference in Paris in July 1998. The 25 revised full papers included were selected from a total of 90 submissions during two rounds of reviewing. Also included are an introduction by the volume editors, two summaries of panel discussions held at the workshop, a classification of all papers published so far in the five Intelligent Agents books, and a subject index. This state

Authors:Bui The Duy, Tuong Vinh Ho, Quang Thuy Ha,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: agents, multi, december, vietnam, lecture, artificial, intelligence, hanoi, notes, conference, systems, agent, pacific, rim, intelligent, international, prima
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 2008-12-12
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540896732
ISBN-13: 9783540896739

This book constitutes the proceedings of the the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008. The 19 regular papers and 22 short papers presented together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. Many current subjects in multi-agent research and development are addressed, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields. There was a track on multi-issue negotiation and agents and HCI.