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Type: Book

Subject: 1.2.1 Practical reasoning/planning and acting

Subject: RA3 Agent systems implementation issues

Subject: 1.2 Foundations of Agency

Subject: 1.2.3 Decision making, decision theory, and agency

Member Organisation: 011 Hebrew University Multiagent Systems Research

Member Organisation: AM019 Vienna University of Technology, EEG

Member Organisation: 048 Technical University of Clausthal

Subrahmanian, VS and Bonatti, Piero and Dix, Jurgen and Eiter, Thomas and Kraus, Sarit and Ozcan, Fatma and Ross, Robert (2000) Heterogenous Active Agents. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. ISBN 0262194368

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Official URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3370

Abstract

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.

Deposited by Prof. Dr. Jurgen Dix on 11 October 2005

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