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Developing Intelligent Agent Systems

Author : Lin Padgham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470861215
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Developing Intelligent Agent Systems written by Lin Padgham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own intelligent agent system... Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programmes that behave rationally in dynamic and changing environments. Applications range from small programmes that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This powerful technology is not widely used, however, as developing intelligent agent software requires high levels of training and skill. The authors of this book have developed and tested a methodology and tools for developing intelligent agent systems. With this methodology (Prometheus) developers can start agent-oriented designs and implementations easily from scratch saving valuable time and resources. Developing Intelligent Agent Systems not only answers the questions “what are agents?” and “why are they useful?” but also the crucial question: “how do I design and build intelligent agent systems?” The book covers everything a practitioner needs to know to begin to effectively use this technology - including an introduction to the notion of agents, a description of the concepts involved, and a software engineering methodology. Read on for: a practical step-by-step introduction to designing and building intelligent agent systems. a full life-cycle methodology for developing intelligent agent systems covering specification, analysis, design and implementation of agents. PDT: Prometheus Design Tool – software support for the Prometheus design process. the example of an electronic bookstore to illustrate the design process throughout the book. Electronic resources including the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT), can be found at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/prometheus This book is aimed at industrial software developers, software engineers and at advanced undergraduate students. It assumes knowledge of basic software engineering but does not require knowledge of Artificial Intelligence or of mathematics. Familiarity with Java will help in reading the examples in chapter 10.

Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents

Author : Mukesh Patel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262162012
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents by : Mukesh Patel

Download or read book Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents written by Mukesh Patel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning. Among the first uses of the computer was the development of programs to model perception, reasoning, learning, and evolution. Further developments resulted in computers and programs that exhibit aspects of intelligent behavior. The field of artificial intelligence is based on the premise that thought processes can be computationally modeled. Computational molecular biology brought a similar approach to the study of living systems. In both cases, hypotheses concerning the structure, function, and evolution of cognitive systems (natural as well as synthetic) take the form of computer programs that store, organize, manipulate, and use information. Systems whose information processing structures are fully programmed are difficult to design for all but the simplest applications. Real-world environments call for systems that are able to modify their behavior by changing their information processing structures. Cognitive and information structures and processes, embodied in living systems, display many effective designs for biological intelligent agents. They are also a source of ideas for designing artificial intelligent agents. This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning. The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary design scalable, the use of evolutionary search in conjunction with local learning algorithms, and the extension of evolutionary search in novel directions.

Multi-Agent Oriented Programming

Author : Olivier Boissier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360667
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Multi-Agent Oriented Programming by : Olivier Boissier

Download or read book Multi-Agent Oriented Programming written by Olivier Boissier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main concepts and techniques of multi-agent oriented programming, which supports the multi-agent systems paradigm at the programming level. A multi-agent system is an organized ensemble of autonomous, intelligent, goal-oriented entities called agents, communicating with each other and interacting within an environment. This book introduces the main concepts and techniques of multi-agent oriented programming, (MAOP) which supports the multi-agent systems paradigm at the programming level. MAOP provides a structured approach based on three integrated dimensions, which the book examines in detail: the agent dimension, used to design the individual (interacting) entities; the environment dimension, which allows the development of shared resources and connections to the real world; and the organization dimension, which structures the interactions among the autonomous agents and the shared environment.

Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

Author : Praveen Palanisamy
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788835131
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Book Synopsis Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym by : Praveen Palanisamy

Download or read book Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym written by Praveen Palanisamy and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implement intelligent agents using PyTorch to solve classic AI problems, play console games like Atari, and perform tasks such as autonomous driving using the CARLA driving simulator Key Features Explore the OpenAI Gym toolkit and interface to use over 700 learning tasks Implement agents to solve simple to complex AI problems Study learning environments and discover how to create your own Book Description Many real-world problems can be broken down into tasks that require a series of decisions to be made or actions to be taken. The ability to solve such tasks without a machine being programmed requires a machine to be artificially intelligent and capable of learning to adapt. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to implementing learning algorithms for machine software agents in order to solve discrete or continuous sequential decision making and control tasks. Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym takes you through the process of building intelligent agent algorithms using deep reinforcement learning starting from the implementation of the building blocks for configuring, training, logging, visualizing, testing, and monitoring the agent. You will walk through the process of building intelligent agents from scratch to perform a variety of tasks. In the closing chapters, the book provides an overview of the latest learning environments and learning algorithms, along with pointers to more resources that will help you take your deep reinforcement learning skills to the next level. What you will learn Explore intelligent agents and learning environments Understand the basics of RL and deep RL Get started with OpenAI Gym and PyTorch for deep reinforcement learning Discover deep Q learning agents to solve discrete optimal control tasks Create custom learning environments for real-world problems Apply a deep actor-critic agent to drive a car autonomously in CARLA Use the latest learning environments and algorithms to upgrade your intelligent agent development skills Who this book is for If you’re a student, game/machine learning developer, or AI enthusiast looking to get started with building intelligent agents and algorithms to solve a variety of problems with the OpenAI Gym interface, this book is for you. You will also find this book useful if you want to learn how to build deep reinforcement learning-based agents to solve problems in your domain of interest. Though the book covers all the basic concepts that you need to know, some working knowledge of Python programming language will help you get the most out of it.

Intelligent Software Agents

Author : Walter Brenner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642804845
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Software Agents by : Walter Brenner

Download or read book Intelligent Software Agents written by Walter Brenner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 chapter contains examples of intelligent agents, arranged according to their appli cation areas. Chapter 7 closes with a prospective view of the future development of intelligent agents. Everyone concerned with the Internet and the new possibilities of information and communication technology knows that nowadays there is no area that is devel oping faster. The authors are aware of the dynamics of this research area and its effects when they describe such a fast developing area in a slow, traditional me dium like a book. One thing is sure today: when the book appears on the market, new intelligent agents will already exist and some of the hypotheses made by this book will have been shown to be incorrect. Why, despite this, does it make sense to write a classical book on this subject? Is there an alternative? Experience shows that the majority of the people in business and public life who make decisions on the use of new technologies continue to prefer books and articles in periodicals rather than electronic sources such as the Internet. Or is there some other reason for the enormous success of Nicolas Negroponte's book Being Digital, which we thank for multimedia and many concepts of the digital and networked world, and even intelligent agents? Today, a book is still the only way to establish a new area.

Agents and Ambient Intelligence

Author : Tibor Bosse
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614990492
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Agents and Ambient Intelligence by : Tibor Bosse

Download or read book Agents and Ambient Intelligence written by Tibor Bosse and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of an intelligent agent - a computational system capable of performing certain tasks autonomously - derived from the growing potential of digital computers in the mid 20th century and had been widely adopted by the early 1990s. Partly in parallel with this concept, the perspective of ambient intelligence (AmI) emerged in the late 1990s. Agent technology and AmI have many similarities, and the main purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of the scientific area that integrates these two. The book addresses a wide variety of topics related to agents and AmI, including theoretical, practical, design, implementation, ethical and philosophical issues. The 12 chapters are arranged in four sections. The first consists of three chapters discussing ethical and philosophical issues; the second part explores various approaches that can be used to develop agent-based AmI Systems; the third part contains three chapters that share the goal to endow AmI systems with useful properties like intelligence and adaptivity and the last section presents concrete applications of agent-based AmI systems. This book provides an insight into recent achievements and future challenges at the intersection of agent technology and ambient intelligence and will assist the development of more intelligent, flexible, effective and user-friendly systems as well as posing critical questions about the future of the role of agents within the AmI perspective.

Building Intelligent Agents

Author : Gheorghe Tecuci
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9780126851250
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Building Intelligent Agents by : Gheorghe Tecuci

Download or read book Building Intelligent Agents written by Gheorghe Tecuci and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1998-06-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Intelligent Agents is unique in its comprehensive coverage of the subject. The first part of the book presents an original theory for building intelligent agents and a methodology and tool that implement the theory. The second part of the book presents complex and detailed case studies of building different types of agents: an educational assessment agent, a statistical analysis assessment and support agent, an engineering design assistant, and a virtual military commander. Also featured in this book is Disciple, a toolkit for building interactive agents which function in much the same way as a human apprentice. Disciple-based agents can reason both with incomplete information, but also with information that is potentially incorrect. This approach, in which the agent learns its behavior from its teacher, integrates many machine learning and knowledge acquisition techniques, taking advantage of their complementary strengths to compensate for each others weakness. As a consequence, it significantly reduces (or even eliminates) the involvement of a knowledge engineer in the process of building an intelligent agent.

Socially Intelligent Agents

Author : Kerstin Dautenhahn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306473739
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Socially Intelligent Agents by : Kerstin Dautenhahn

Download or read book Socially Intelligent Agents written by Kerstin Dautenhahn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socially situated planning provides one mechanism for improving the social awareness ofagents. Obviously this work isin the preliminary stages and many of the limitation and the relationship to other work could not be addressed in such a short chapter. The chief limitation, of course, is the strong commitment to de?ning social reasoning solely atthe meta-level, which restricts the subtlety of social behavior. Nonetheless, our experience in some real-world military simulation applications suggest that the approach, even in its preliminary state, is adequate to model some social interactions, and certainly extends the sta- of-the art found in traditional training simulation systems. Acknowledgments This research was funded by the Army Research Institute under contract TAPC-ARI-BR References [1] J. Gratch. Emile: Marshalling passions in training and education. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 325–332, New York, 2000. ACM Press. [2] J. Gratch and R. Hill. Continous planning and collaboration for command and control in joint synthetic battlespaces. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, 1999. [3] B. Grosz and S. Kraus. Collaborative plans for complex group action. Arti?cial Intelli gence, 86(2):269–357, 1996. [4] A. Ortony, G. L. Clore, and A. Collins. The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Cambridge University Press, 1988. [5] R.W.PewandA.S.Mavor,editors. Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior. National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1998.

Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Agents in Power System Control and Operation

Author : Christian Rehtanz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540402022
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Agents in Power System Control and Operation by : Christian Rehtanz

Download or read book Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Agents in Power System Control and Operation written by Christian Rehtanz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous systems are one of the most important trends for the next generation of control systems. This book is the first to transfer autonomous systems concepts and intelligent agents theory into the control and operation environment of power systems. The focus of this book is to design a future control system architecture for electrical power systems, which copes with the changed requirements concerning complexity and flexibility and includes several applications for power systems. This book draws the whole circle from the theoretical and IT-concept of autonomous systems for power system control over the required knowledge-based methods and their capabilities to concrete applications within this field.

Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java

Author : Joseph P. Bigus
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471396017
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java by : Joseph P. Bigus

Download or read book Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java written by Joseph P. Bigus and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art guide on how to build intelligent Web-based applications using Java Joseph and Jennifer Bigus update and significantly expand their book on building intelligent Web-based applications using Java. Geared to network programmers or Web developers who have previously programmed agents in Smalltalk or C++, this practical book explains in detail how to construct agents capable of learning and competing, including both design principles and actual code for personal agents, network or Web agents, multi-agent systems and commercial agents. New and revised coverage includes agent tools, agent uses for Web applications (including personalization, cross-selling, and e-commerce), and additional AI technologies such as fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.

Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents

Author : Fuhua Oscar Lin
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591405025
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents by : Fuhua Oscar Lin

Download or read book Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents written by Fuhua Oscar Lin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents reports on the most recent advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Chapters are devoted to the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical issues on where and how intelligent agents can contribute to meeting distributed learning needs today and tomorrow. This book benefits the AI (artificial intelligence) and educational communities in their research and development, offering new and interesting research issues surrounding the development of distributed learning environments in the Semantic Web age. In addition, the ideas presented in the book are applicable to other domains such as Agent-Supported Web Services, distributed business process and resource integration, computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and e-Commerce.

Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications

Author : Sahin Albayrak
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051992953
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (929 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications by : Sahin Albayrak

Download or read book Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications written by Sahin Albayrak and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent agent and distributed AI (DAI) approaches attach specific conditions to cooperative exchanges between intelligent systems, that go far beyond simple functional interoperability. Ideally, systems that pursue local or global goals, coordinate their actions, share knowledge, and resolve conflicts during their interactions within groups of similar or dissimilar agents can be viewed as cooperative coarse-grained systems. The infrastructure of telecommunications is a world in transition. There are a number of trends that contribute to this: convergence of traditional telephony and data network worlds, blurring of boundaries between public and private networks, complementary evolution of wireline, wireless, and cable network infrastructures, the emergence of integrated broadband multimedia networks and, of course, the information superhighway. Up to now, despite the effort that has gone into this area, the field of intelligent agents research has not yet led to many fielded systems. Telecommunications applications pose strong requirements to agents such as: reliability, real-time performance, openness, security management and other integrated management, and mobility. In order to fulfil their promise, intelligent agents need to be fully dependable and typically require an integrated set of capabilities. This is the challenge that exists for intelligent agents technology in this application domain.

Intelligent Agents II - Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Author : Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540608059
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Agents II - Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages by : Michael Wooldridge

Download or read book Intelligent Agents II - Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages written by Michael Wooldridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-01-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the second International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'95 in Montreal, Canada in August 1995. The 26 papers are revised final versions of the workshop presentations selected from a total of 54 submissions; also included is a comprehensive introduction, a detailed bibliography listing 355 relevant publications, and a subject index. The book is structured into seven sections, reflecting the most current major directions in agent-related research. Together with its predecessor, Intelligent Agents, published as volume 890 in the LNAI series, this book provides a timely and comprehensive state-of-the-art report.

Multiagent Systems, second edition

Author : Gerhard Weiss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533871
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Multiagent Systems, second edition by : Gerhard Weiss

Download or read book Multiagent Systems, second edition written by Gerhard Weiss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of an introduction to multiagent systems that captures the state of the art in both theory and practice, suitable as textbook or reference. Multiagent systems are made up of multiple interacting intelligent agents—computational entities to some degree autonomous and able to cooperate, compete, communicate, act flexibly, and exercise control over their behavior within the frame of their objectives. They are the enabling technology for a wide range of advanced applications relying on distributed and parallel processing of data, information, and knowledge relevant in domains ranging from industrial manufacturing to e-commerce to health care. This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to multiagent systems, covering the field in both breadth and depth, and treating both theory and practice. It is suitable for classroom use or independent study. This second edition has been completely revised, capturing the tremendous developments in multiagent systems since the first edition appeared in 1999. Sixteen of the book's seventeen chapters were written for this edition; all chapters are by leaders in the field, with each author contributing to the broad base of knowledge and experience on which the book rests. The book covers basic concepts of computational agency from the perspective of both individual agents and agent organizations; communication among agents; coordination among agents; distributed cognition; development and engineering of multiagent systems; and background knowledge in logics and game theory. Each chapter includes references, many illustrations and examples, and exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. The chapters and the overall book are designed to be self-contained and understandable without additional material. Supplemental resources are available on the book's Web site. Contributors Rafael Bordini, Felix Brandt, Amit Chopra, Vincent Conitzer, Virginia Dignum, Jürgen Dix, Ed Durfee, Edith Elkind, Ulle Endriss, Alessandro Farinelli, Shaheen Fatima, Michael Fisher, Nicholas R. Jennings, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Evangelos Markakis, Lin Padgham, Julian Padget, Iyad Rahwan, Talal Rahwan, Alex Rogers, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Yoav Shoham, Munindar P. Singh, Kagan Tumer, Karl Tuyls, Wiebe van der Hoek, Laurent Vercouter, Meritxell Vinyals, Michael Winikoff, Michael Wooldridge, Shlomo Zilberstein

Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval

Author : Masoud Mohammadian
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591401941
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval by : Masoud Mohammadian

Download or read book Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval written by Masoud Mohammadian and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a large increase in the amount of information available on World Wide Web and also in number of online databases. This information abundance increases the complexity of locating relevant information. Such a complexity drives the need for improved and intelligent systems for search and information retrieval. Intelligent agents are currently used to improve the search and retrieval information on World Wide Web. The use of existing search and retrieval engines with the addition of intelligent agents allows a more comprehensive search with a performance that can be measured. Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval discusses the foundation as well as the practical side of intelligent agents and their theory and applications for web data mining and information retrieval. The book can used for researchers at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels as well as a reference of the state-of-art for cutting edge researchers.

Intelligent Software Agents

Author : Richard Murch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Software Agents by : Richard Murch

Download or read book Intelligent Software Agents written by Richard Murch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the current state of the use and possible uses of intelligent agent technology.

Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents

Author : Michael Gelfond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782872
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents by : Michael Gelfond

Download or read book Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents written by Michael Gelfond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge representation and reasoning is the foundation of artificial intelligence, declarative programming, and the design of knowledge-intensive software systems capable of performing intelligent tasks. Using logical and probabilistic formalisms based on answer set programming (ASP) and action languages, this book shows how knowledge-intensive systems can be given knowledge about the world and how it can be used to solve non-trivial computational problems. The authors maintain a balance between mathematical analysis and practical design of intelligent agents. All the concepts, such as answering queries, planning, diagnostics, and probabilistic reasoning, are illustrated by programs of ASP. The text can be used for AI-related undergraduate and graduate classes and by researchers who would like to learn more about ASP and knowledge representation.