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Co-ordination in Artificial Agent Societies

Social Structures and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Sascha Ossowski
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  • The author presents a well-founded formal model of coordination in artificial agent societies
  • Real-world problems solved using the model in an operational software architecture organized as a society of intelligent agents
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1535)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-14

  3. Co-ordination

    Pages 15-30

  4. Distributed Artificial Intelligence

    Pages 31-63

  5. Analysis

    Pages 65-69

  6. Emergent Co-ordination by Structural Co-operation

    Pages 71-104

  7. Structural Co-operation and Bargaining

    Pages 105-126

  8. An Instrumentation of Structural Co-operation

    Pages 127-152

  9. Road Traffic Management

    Pages 153-162

  10. A Case Study

    Pages 163-189

  11. Conclusions

    Pages 191-196

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 197-221
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About this book

Advances in Computer Science often arise from new ideas and concepts, that prove to be advantageous for the design of complex software systems. The con ception of multi agent systems is particularly attractive, as it prommodul ises arity based on the conceptual speciality of an agent, as well as flexibility in their inte gration through appropriate interaction models. While early systems drew upon co operative agents, recent developments have realised the importance of the notion of autonomy in the design of agent based applications. The emergence of systems of autonomous problem solving agents paves the way for complex Artificial Intelligence applications that allow fosca r lability and at the same time foster the reusability of their components. In consequence, an intelligent multi agent application can be seen as a collec tion of autonomous agents, usually specialised in different tasks, together with a social model of their interactions. This approach implies a dynamic generation of complex relational structures, that agents need to be knowledgeable of in order to successfully achieve their goals. Therefore, a multi agent system designer needs to think carefully about conceptualisation, representation and enactment of the different types of knowledge that its agents rely on, for individual problem solving as well as for mutual co ordination.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Co-ordination in Artificial Agent Societies

  • Book Subtitle: Social Structures and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents

  • Authors: Sascha Ossowski

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49212-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-65495-7Published: 18 December 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49212-2Published: 26 June 2003

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 228

  • Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence

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