Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

NB: LNAI 890 and LNAI 1037 are the first and second books respectively in this series of three books on Intelligent Agents.

Autorentext
Jörg Müller, Jg. 1943, Pallottinerpater und Psychotherapeut mit eigener Praxis in Freising bei München. Michael Wooldridge has worked as an independent web developer, writer, and consultant since 1995. He has written about technology for Macworld and CNET.

Inhalt
Modelling and design of multi-agent systems.- Is It an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents.- To be or not to be an agent.- What Is an agent?.- An agent is an individual that has consciousness.- Agents as a Rorschach test: A response to Franklin and Graesser.- From agent theory to agent construction: A case study.- If Z is the answer, what could the question possibly be?.- Practical theory and theory-based practice.- QLB: A quantified logic for belief.- Dynamic belief analysis.- Belief revision through the belief-function formalism in a multi-agent environment.- Formal specification of beliefs in multi-agent systems.- Reasoning about collective goals.- Formalisation of a cooperation model based on joint intentions.- A reactive-deliberative model of dialogue agency.- Towards layered dialogical agents.- A rational agent as the kernel of a cooperative spoken dialogue system: Implementing a logical theory of interaction.- Modelling social agents: Communication as action.- The threshold of cooperation among adaptive agents: Pavlov and the Stag Hunt.- How can an agent learn to negotiate?.- A cooperation model for autonomous agents.- Designing and implementing a multi-agent architecture for business process management.- Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents.- A deliberative and reactive diagnosis agent based on logic programming.- Reactive and motivational agents: Towards a collective minder.- A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications.- The design of a coordination language for multi-agent systems.- A knowledge-theoretic semantics for concurrent MetateM.- Knowledge-based situated agents among us a preliminary report.