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Agent related books

MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS, Towards the Programmable Internet, Jan Vitek and Christian Tschudin (Eds.), Second International Workshop, MOS'96, Linz, Austria, July 1996, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1222, Selected Presentations and Invited Papers, ISBN 3-540-62852-5, April, 1997.
"This book presents a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of mobile computations. Mobile computations are computations that are not bound to single locations, but may move at will to best use the computer network's resources. In this view, the network becomes a single, vast, programmable environment. Among computer scientists, many feel that this approach will have a profound effect on the way we design and implement distributed applications, and they agree that we are witnessing a paradigm change. However, this new and exciting paradigm requires advances, both theoretical and applied, in fields such as programming languages (where we need a sound semantic foundation and efficient implementations), operating systems and software safety and security. Some of the first steps towards a programmable Internet are documented here." 3/20/97
Software Agents & Soft Computing: Concepts and Applications, by Hyacinth S. Nwana & Nader Azarmi (Eds), Published in January 1997 by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 1198, 298 pages. Includes index. ISBN: 3-540-62560-7. Softback. Contents:
- Section 1: Software Agents - Concepts. An Introduction to Agent Technology (Hyacinth S. Nwana & Divine T. Ndumu), Artificial Societies and Psychological Agents (Stuart N. Watt), Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems (Hyacinth S. Nwana, Lyndon C. Lee & Nick R. Jennings), Software Agent Technologies (Hyacinth S. Nwana & Mike Wooldridge).
- Section 2: Software Agents - Applications.Information Agents for the World Wide Web (John N. Davies, Richard Weeks & Mike Revett), Multi-Agent Matchmaking (Lenny Foner & Barry Crabtree), An Application of Social Filtering to Movie Recommendation (Donald Fisk), Agents of Change for Business Process Management (Paul O'Brien & Mark Wiegand), Agents, Mobility and Multimedia Information (Richard Titmuss, Barry Crabtree & Chris Winter), A Real-life Experiment in Creating an Agent Market Place (Anthony Chavez, D. Dreilinger, R. Guttman and Pattie Maes).
- Section 3: Soft Computing - Concepts and Applications. The Roles of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing in the Conception, Design and Deployment of Intelligent Systems (Lotfi A. Zadeh), An Introduction to Soft Computing: A Tool for Building Intelligent Systems (Ben Azvine, Nader Azarmi & K. C. Tsui), Basic Concepts of a Fuzzy Logic Data Browser with Applications (Jim Baldwin & T. P. Martin), Towards Soft Computing (E. H. Mamdani).
- Section 4: Machine Intelligence. The Rise of Machine Intelligence (Hyacinth S. Nwana, Nader Azarmi & Robin Smith), Intelligent Software Systems (Robin Smith and E. H. Mamdani), Machine Intelligibility and the Duality Principle (Steve Muggleton & Donald Michie).
3/10/97
Danny Lange and Mitsuru Oshima of IBM Research are working on a book "Mobile Agents in Java - With the Java Aglet API". An outline and draft of the initial chapters are available on the wev. Planned chapters include: 1. Preface; 2. Elements of the Java Aglet API; 3. Anatomy of an Aglet; 4 .Aglet Context; 5. Working With the Proxy; 6. Aglet Messaging; 7. Trip Planning with the Itinerary; 8. Aglet Usage Patterns; and 9. Aglet Security as well as appendices 1. Examples and 2. The Java Aglet API. 3/3/97
From Animals to Animats 4 - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, September 9th-13th, 1996, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, edited by Pattie Maes, Maja J. Mataric, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jordan Pollack, and Stewart W. Wilson. From Animals to Animats 4 brings together the latest research at the frontier of an exciting new approach to understanding intelligence. The contributors represent a broad range of interests from artificial intelligence and robotics to ethology and the neurosciences. Unifying these approaches is the notion of "animat" - an artificial animal, either simulated by a computer or embodied in a robot, which must survive and adapt in progressively more challenging environments. The 66 contributions focus particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare various principles and architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals. Topics, all from the perspective of adaptive behavior, include: The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior, Perception and Motor Control, Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences, Internal World Models and Navigation, Motivation and Emotions, Learning, Evolution, Coevolution, and Collective Behavior. Complex Adaptive Systems series, A Bradford Book, October 1996, 600 pp., $65.00 paperback, ISBN 0-262-63178-4-3. MIT Press. 12/13/96
The Design of Intelligent Agents: a Layered Approach, Joerg P. Mueller, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 1177, December 1996. ISBN 3-540-62003-6. 227pp. Includes index. Price DM 48,00 softback.
Intelligent agents are computer systems that can make rational decisions and act autonomously in real-time, open, multi-agent environments; agent technology has the potential to play a key role in the design and operation of complex distributed systems in the years to come.
This monograph presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of approaches to the design of intelligent agents. On the theo- retical side, the author compiles a set of general requirements for autonomous interacting agents and provides an essential step towards understanding the principles of intelligent agents. On the practical side, the agent architecture INTERRAP is introduced; the detailed description and evaluation of the architecture is an ideal guideline and case study for software engineers and researchers who are faced with the task of building a real agent system.
This book bridges the gap between theoretical foundations and practical implementations of intelligent agents. It addresses both active and novice researchers and is essential reading for anyone interested in applying this exciting new software technology. 12/9/96
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World, Kevin Kelly, Addison-Wesley, copyright June, 1994, 520 pages, ISDN 0201483408. This book describes how technology is becoming biological, decentralized and distributed. Order from amazon. Synopsis: In a book about the marriage of the born and the made--the biologicalization of everything from computers to government--the executive editor of Wired chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that dri ve our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. The author, www.wired.com/staff/kevin, 05/24/96: Why you should read this book This is a book about how our manufactured world has become so complex that the only way to create yet more complex things is by using the principles of biology. This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network-based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. And more: restoration biology, encryption, a-life, and the lessons of hypertext. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you. 12/6/96
Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Greg O'Hare and Nick Jennings (Ed.), Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series, John Wiley & Sons. The book includes 21 papers dived into four sections -- formulative readings; cooperation, coordination and agency; DAI frameworks and their applications; related disciplines, and includes an appendix on DAI references and resources. 8/10/96
Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms, edited by Richard K. Belew and Melanie Mitchell, Proceedings Volume XXVI, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996. "A meeting held at the Santa Fe Institute during the summer of 1993 brought together a small group of biologists, psychologists, and computer scientists with shared interests in questions such as these. This volume consists of approximately two dozen papers that explore interacting adaptive systems from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. About half the articles are classic, seminal references on the subject, ranging from biologists like Lamarck and Waddington to psychologists like Piaget and Skinner. The other papers represent new work by the workshop participants. The role played by mathematical and computational tools, both as models of natural phenomena and as algorithms useful in their own right, is particularly emphasized in these new papers. In all cases the chapters have been augmented by specially written prefaces. In the case of the reprinted classics, the prefaces help to put the older papers in a modern context. For the new papers, the prefaces have been written by colleagues from a discipline other than the paper's authors, and highligh, for example, what a computer scientist can learn from a biologist's model, or vice versa. Through these cross-disciplinary "dialogues" and a glossary collecting multidisciplinary connotations of pivotal terms, the process of interdisciplinary investigation itself becomes a central theme." 8/9/96
The Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky, Simon & Schuster paperback, 14.95. "Marvin Minsky - one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT - gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter - on a self-contained page - corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination." There is also a Marvin Minsky: The Society of Mind as part of the Voyager "First Person Series" ($39.95). This series offers "Immediate, intimate conversations with great thinkers about their works, their discoveries, their ideas, their passions. Making the most of CD-ROM technology, the First Person series elegantly integrates exclusive video footage with articles, books and graphics by the authors. Truly expands the meaning of "content.". It includes over 100 minutes of original archival QuickTime video, animated graphics, the full text of The Society of Mind, a selection of additional articles, an interactive tour of Minsky's living room and a video timeline. 8/1/96
Reasoning About Knowledge, by Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, and Moshe Y. Vardi, MIT Press, 1995, ISBN 0-262-06162-7, 500 pp., $45.00 (cloth). 7/29/96
Parallel, Distributed and Multiagent Production Systems, Toru Ishida, Springer-Verlag / Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 878, (subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), ISBN 3-540-58698-9, xvi+166 pages, softback. Abstract: This volume describes a series of research initiatives on concurrent production systems, which can be classified into three categories: (1) Synchronous parallel production systems or parallel rule firing, where rules are fired in parallel to reduce the total number of sequential production cycles, while rule firings are globally synchronized in each production cycle. (2) Asynchronous parallel production systems or distributed production systems, where rules are distributed among multiple processes, and fired in parallel without global synchronization. Organization self-design is then introduced into the distributed production systems to provide adaptive work allocation. (3) Multiagent production systems, where multiple production system programs compete or cooperate to solve a single problem or multiple problems. A metalevel control architecture is further discussed for multiagent production systems. 9/27/96
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds, Mitchel Resnick, 1994, Complex Adaptive Systems series. MIT Press, A Bradford Book, ISBN 0-262-18162-2, 192 pp., $24.95 (cloth). Resnick discusses decentralized systems, self-organizing phenomena and their simulation using the massively parallel programming language StarLogo. 7/22/96
Book: C.J. Cherryh, The KIF Strike Back, Phantasia ltd ed, 1985; DAW Books, 1985; SFBC, 1986. Abstract: "In Compact Space, where some seven species have staked out their often-disputed interstellar frontiers, events move with speed, surprise and a tendency to escalate into shattering violence. Confrontation is routine and treachery, to some, is a way of life. So when the kif seized a hani and a human, the gauntlet was down. Pyanfar Chanur was not one to ignore such a challenge. But what she saw as a simple rescue attempt soon became the deadliest game that even she, controversial captain, no stranger to battle and desperate risk, had ever been engaged in." For related information, see "The History and Development OF KIF Writing". 6/22/96
Market-Based Control - A Paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation, edited by S H Clearwater (Xerox PARC, USA). World Scientific, 1996. Hardcover: 981-02-2254-8, price $62/#44. "Market-Based Control is a paradigm for controlling complex systems that would otherwise be very difficult to control, maintain, or expand. The purpose of this volume is to illustrate the utility of market-based control through a series of papers focusing on different applications. This volume, for the first time, brings together the research from a wide range of fields all using a market-based conceptual framework. The features of markets that have provided motivation for these works include decentralization, interacting agents, and some notion of a resource that needs to be allocated. The papers span a range including theoretical considerations, simulations, and implementations." 6/15/95
Book: From Reaction to Cognition -- Multi-Agent World - MAAMAW'93, edited by Cristiano Castefranchi and Jean-Pierre Muller, Springer-Verlag (ISBN 3-540-58698-9). 5/24/96
Afsaneh Haddadi, Communciation and Cooperation in Agent Systems: A Pragmatic Theory. Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 1056 Year: 1996 ISBN 3-540-61044-8. 5/14/96
Dissertation: Autonomous Agents and the Concept of Concepts, Paul Davidsson. This thesis has two main themes, autonomous agents (a system capable of interacting with its environment via its own sensors and effectors in order to accomplish some task) and the representation and the acquisition of concepts. 5/8/96
Book: Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Edited by: Greg O'Hare & Nick Jennings, John Wiley and Sons, 1-00675-0, 1996, 576 pp, Price $79.95/45pounds. "This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of distributed artificial intelligence, a field that has seen an explosion in recent years. The tremendous and growing interest in this field has underscored the need for an up-to-date, integrated reference accessible to both researchers and graduate students." 5/8/96
Book: Raimo Tuomela, THE IMPORTANCE OF US: A Philosophical Study of Basic Social Notions. Stanford Series in Philosophy, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 94305, U.S.A., 1995, 470 pp., ISBN 0-8047-2422-9, price USD 55.00. (tuomela@cc.helsinki.fi, University of Helsinki). The book develops a detailed systematic philosophical theory of social action and group phenomena, including analyses of central social notions such as "we-attitudes" (especially "we-intention"), social norm, joint action, and, most importantly, group goal, group belief as well as group action. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. Norms, Tasks, and We-Attitudes; 2. Intentional Joint Action; 3. We-Intentions and Their Cognates; 4. Social Groups: A Conative Approach; 5. Group Actions; 6. Joint Goals and Group Goals; 7. Group Beliefs; 8. Social Roles; 9. The Existence of Social Entities; 10. Towards a General Dynamic Theory of Society. 4/29/96
Book: Gerhard Weiss & Sandip Sen (Eds.), Adaption and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1996. 3/20/96
Language Support for Mobile Agents, Fritz Knabe, Ph.D. Dissertation, CMU. 1/19/95
Fah-Chun Cheong, Internet Agents - Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers and Bots, New Riders, 1995. UK29 US$32. ISBN 1-56205-463-5. CONTENTS: (1) Introduction: The World of Agents; The Internet - Past, Present, Future; WWW - Playground for Robots. (2) Web Robot Construction: Spiders for indexing the Web; Web Robots; HTTP: Protocol of Web Robots; WebWalker : Your Web maintenance Robot. (3) Agents and Money on the net: Web transaction security; ECash & Payment Services. (4) Bots in CyberSpace: Worms & Viruses; MUD Agents and Chatterbots. (5) Appendices.
World Scientific Series in Computer Science - Vol. 43: Cooperation in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems, N. R. Jennings , 1994, 200 pages, ISBN: 981-02-1652-1; , Price: US$38, #28 10/7/95
Intelligent Agents - Theories, Architectures, and Languages, edited by Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings. Published in January 1995 by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 890. ISBN 3-540-58855-8. 403pp. Includes index. Price DM 86,00 softback. 10/7/95
Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation Among Computers, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein and Gilad Zlotkin, MIT press, 1994. 9/28/95
MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS -- A Theoretical Framework for Intentions, Know-How, and Communications Munindar P. Singh, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 799 (subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), ISBN 0-387-58026-3 (in North America), ISBN 3-540-58026-3 (elsewhere), xxiii+168 pages, softback. 7/24/95.
Agents Unleashed (Peter Wayner, AP Professional) -- a book which looks at the technology underlying an agent empire. 7/13/95.

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