| Description |
xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Lecture notes in computer science ; 1535.. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence |
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Lecture notes in computer science ; 1535
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Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Co-ordination -- 3. Distributed Artificial Intelligence -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Emergent Co-ordination by Structural Co-operation -- 6. Structural Co-operation and Bargaining -- 7. An Instrumentation of Structural Co-operation -- 8. Road Traffic Management -- 9. A Case Study -- 10. Conclusions |
| Summary |
This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the different approaches to coordination in societies of artificial and human agents. Setting out from a critical assessment of the state of the art, the author develops a method of structuring multi-agent applications with a mechanism called structural cooperation. Agents are equipped with expertise about their environment in order to detect and overcome specific types of problem, they make use of their social knowledge to mutually adjust their activities, and they are coerced toward coherent collective behavior through normative rules |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-221) |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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Print version record |
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Lecture notes in computer science. no:1535 0302-9743 |
| Subject |
Artificial intelligence.
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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| LC no. |
98055550 |
| ISBN |
354065495X (softcover : alk. paper) |
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