Understanding agent systems.

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Authors Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck

Publication date 30 December 2003

zbMATH Keywords

agent systemartifical intelligencecomputational architectureSMART

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) Distributed systems (68M14) Theory of software (68N99) General topics in artificial intelligence (68T01) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

Review text

The book is a second, updated edition of a contribution to the theoretical and applied research of artificial intelligence. It deals with agent systems methods, and the main attention is focused on the theoretical framework specifying the principles of the theory of agency and so-called Structured and Modular Agents and Relationship Types (briefly SMART). The book is divided into 12 chapters. Several of them are devoted to the theoretical and methodological principles of the presented approach, its heuristical interpretation, and to the terminology and classification of the treated concepts. The most significant among these chapters is the second one, in which the full details of the SMART agent network are presented. Chapters 6 to 11 regard mainly the analysis of selected case studies illustrating the applicability of SMART (autonomous interaction, contact net, computational architecture, social dependence networks, normative agents, and building of the SMART system). The last chapter summarizes the conclusions. The book is completed by representative references (185 items) and an Index. The first edition appeared in 2001 (see Zbl 1049.68651).

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