Agent Engineering (series In Machine Perception And Artificial Intelligence, 43) (v. 43)
by Yuan Yan Tang /
2001 / English / PDF
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Agent engineering concerns the development of autonomous
computational or physical entities capable of perceiving,
reasoning, adapting, learning, cooperating and delegating in a
dynamic environment. It is one of the most promising areas of
research and development in information technology, computer
science and engineering. This book addresses some of the key issues
in agent engineering: what is meant by "autonomous agents"?; how
can we build agents with autonomy?; what are the desirable
capabilities of agents with respect to surviving (they will not
die) and living (they will furthermore enjoy their being or
existence?); how can agents cooperate among themselves?; and in
order to achieve the optimal performance at the global level, how
much optimization at the local, individual level and how much at
the global level would be necessary?
Agent engineering concerns the development of autonomous
computational or physical entities capable of perceiving,
reasoning, adapting, learning, cooperating and delegating in a
dynamic environment. It is one of the most promising areas of
research and development in information technology, computer
science and engineering. This book addresses some of the key issues
in agent engineering: what is meant by "autonomous agents"?; how
can we build agents with autonomy?; what are the desirable
capabilities of agents with respect to surviving (they will not
die) and living (they will furthermore enjoy their being or
existence?); how can agents cooperate among themselves?; and in
order to achieve the optimal performance at the global level, how
much optimization at the local, individual level and how much at
the global level would be necessary?