Issues in Multi-Agent Systems: The AgentCities.ES Experience (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3764385421 ISBN 13: 9783764385422

Casa editrice: Birkhäuser, 2007

Riassunto

Discover the latest developments and issues in multi-agent systems by exploring their applications in various domains such as electronic markets, e-tourism, ambience intelligence, and complex system analysis. The book is written by two researchers with hands-on experience in technology transfer. With their practical focus, they help you see how agent technology can be applied in many new services and environments.

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Contenuti

1. Agent Oriented Software Engineering.- Introduction.- Evaluation of agent methodologies.- The relevance of modeling in AOSE.- Testing, validation and verification of MAS software.- Current research in Multiagent Systems Product Lines.- Using AOSE for engineering holonic manufacturing systems.- A multi-agent system to manage knolwedge sources in software maintenance environments.- Conclusions.- 2. Ubiquitous computing, mobile environments.- Introduction.- Technology for Ambient Intelligence.- Context definition.- Ontology definition of context-based appliactions based on agents.- Social networks.- Mobility.- 3. Cognitive abilities in agents.- Introduction.- Planning as problem solving.- Memory and BDI.- Decision making.- Learning.- Conclusions.- 4. Trust and security.- Introduction.- Modeling reputation in MAS.- Organisational structures to improve trust and reputation.- Intelligent agents which manage reputation and trust.- Application of fuzzy contextual corrective filtering.- From models to testbeds: the ART testbed initiative.- Securing agents in practice.- Secure intelligent agents in smart offices.- Conclusions.- 5. Physical agents.- Introduction.- What are physical agents?- Deliberating while the physical world changes.- Applications.- Conclusions.- 6. Artificial social intelligence in MAS: from swarms to electronic institutions.- Artificial Social Intelligence.- Swarm intelligence.- Swarm intelligence applications: bar systems.- Swarm intelligence applications: a quality of service routing approach for DiffServ networks using ant colony optimization.- Electronic institutions.- Electronic institutions application: the fish market.- Electronic institutions application: the electricity market.- New trends in electronic institutions: dealing with openness, dynamicity and autonomy.- Conclusions.- 7.Agent applications in Tourism.- Introduction.- Turist@: agent-based proactive and personalised recommendation of cultural activities.- TourAgent.- A CBR-planning based Tourism application.- A hierarchical approach to service discovery in touristic smart spaces.- Dynamic location tracking for Tourism applications.- Summary and conclusions.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Birkhäuser
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3764385421
• ISBN 13: 9783764385422
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Moreno Antonio
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile