In the existing literature the intersection of agent technology with soft computing is a very recent and attractive issue. The book is devoted to a unifying perspective of this topic. In contains contributions by well-known authors whose expertise is universally recognized in these crossing areas. Particular emphasis is devoted to advanced research projects involved with Web-related technologies.
Fundamental topics explored in this volume are: - formal theories and logics to represent and handle imprecise communication acts among communities of agents; - soft-computing approaches to define distributed problem-solving techniques to represent and reason about large-scale control systems; - decomposition of a complex system into autonomous or semiautonomous agents through evolutionary models; - enrichment of agent programming paradigm for cooperative soft-computing processing.

Collection of the most recent results in the design of knowledge-based systems

Inhalt
1: Conscious Software: A Computational View of Mind.- 2: Intelligent Agents in Granular Worlds.- 3: Controlling Effective Introns for Multi-Agent Learning by Means of Genetic Programming.- 4: TalkMine: A Soft Computing Approach to Adaptive Knowledge Recommendation.- 5: A Soft-Computing Distributed Artificial Intelligence Architecture for Intelligent Buildings.- 6: Towards a Multiagent Design Principle: Analyzing an Organizational-Learning Oriented Classifer System.- 7: A Human-Centered Approach for Intelligent Internet Applications.- 8: A Soft Computing Framework for Adaptive Agents.