Heterogeneous Agent Systems

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-262-19436-5
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1315 g

Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of
code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to
interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans, software agents act
autonomously with prescribed backgrounds, beliefs, and operations. Systems of agents can access and
manipulate heterogeneously stored data such as that found on the Internet.

After a
discussion of the theory of software agents, this book presents IMPACT (Interactive Maryland
Platform for Agents Collaborating Together), an experimental agent infrastructure that translates
formal theories of agency into a functional multiagent system that can extend legacy software code
and application-specific or legacy data structures. The book describes three sample applications: a
store, a self-correcting auto-pilot, and a supply chain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Subrahmanian, V S

Dix, Juergen

Bonatti, Piero Andrea

Dix, J Rgen

Dix, Jurgen

Eiter, Thomas Robert

Ozcan, Fatma

Kraus, Sarit

Eiter, Thomas

Ross, Robert B.

Bonatti, Piero

Ross, Robert

Dix, Ja/rgen

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Über Autor(innen)

Kraus, Sarit
Sarit Kraus is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel,
and Professor of Computer Science in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University
of Maryland, College Park. She is the coauthor of Heterogeneous Agent Systems
(MIT Press, 2000).