Developing intelligent agent systems [[electronic resource] ] : a practical guide / / Lin Padgham & Michael Winikoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143749503321
• Autore: Padgham Lin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2004
• ISBN: 1-280-27601-0; 9786610276011; 0-470-34578-0; 0-470-86122-3; 0-470-86121-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Wiley series in agent technology
• Altri autori (Persone): WinikoffMichael
• Disciplina: 006.3; 629.892
• Soggetti: Intelligent agents (Computer software); Electronic data processing - Distributed processing; Computer software - Development; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Developing Intelligent Agent Systems; Contents; Foreword from the Series Editor; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1 Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; 1.1 What is an Intelligent Agent?; 1.2 Why are Agents Useful?; 2 Concepts for Building Agents; 2.1 Situated Agents: Actions and Percepts; 2.2 Proactive and Reactive Agents: Goals and Events; 2.3 Challenging Agent Environments: Plans and Beliefs; 2.4 Social Agents; 2.5 Agent Execution Cycle; 2.5.1 Choice of Plan to Execute; 2.5.2 Many Ways to Achieve a Goal; 2.6 Summary; 3 Overview of the Prometheus Methodology; 3.1 Why a New Methodology?; 3.2 Prometheus: A Brief Overview3.2.1 System Specification; 3.2.2 Architectural Design; 3.2.3 Detailed Design; 3.3 Guidelines for Using Prometheus; 3.4 Agent-Oriented Methodologies; 4 System Specification; 4.1 Goal Specification; 4.1.1 Identify Initial Goals; 4.1.2 Goal Refinement; 4.2 Functionalities; 4.3 Scenario Development; 4.3.1 Goal Step Details; 4.3.2 Capturing Alternative Scenarios; 4.4 Interface ; Description; 4.4.1 Percepts and Actions; 4.4.2 Data; 4.5 Checking for Completeness and Consistency; 5 Architectural Design: Specifying the Agent Types; 5.1 Deciding on the Agent Types; 5.2 Grouping Functionalities5.3 Review Agent Coupling - Acquaintance Diagrams; 5.4 Develop Agent Descriptors; 6 Architectural Design: Specifying the Interactions; 6.1 Interaction Diagrams from Scenarios; 6.2 Interaction Protocols from Interaction Diagrams; 6.3 Develop Protocol and Message Descriptors; 7 Finalizing the Architectural Design; 7.1 Overall System Structure; 7.2 Identifying Boundaries of the Agent System; 7.3 Describing Percepts and Actions; 7.4 Defining Shared Data Objects; 7.5 System Overview Diagram; 7.6 Checking for Completeness and Consistency; 7.6.1 Consistency between Agents and Functionalities7.6.2 Consistency between Interaction Diagrams, Scenarios and Protocols; 7.6.3 Consistency of Communication Specifications; 7.6.4 Consistency between Descriptors and the System Overview Diagram; 8 Detailed Design: Agents, Capabilities and Processes; 8.1 Capabilities; 8.2 Agent Overview Diagrams; 8.3 Process Specifications; 8.4 Develop Capability and Process Descriptors; 9 Detailed Design: Capabilities, Plans and Events; 9.1 Capability Overview Diagrams; 9.2 Sub-tasks and Alternative Plans; 9.2.1 Identifying Context Conditions; 9.2.2 Coverage and Overlap9.3 Events and Messages; 9.4 Action and Percept Detailed Design; 9.5 Data; 9.6 Develop and Refine Descriptors; 9.7 Checking for Completeness and Consistency; 9.7.1 Agent Completeness; 9.7.2 Missing or Redundant Items; 9.7.3 Consistency between Artifacts; 9.7.4 Important Scenarios; 10 Implementing Agent Systems; 10.1 Agent Platforms; 10.2 JACK; 10.3 Example; 10.3.1 Agents; 10.3.2 Capabilities; 10.3.3 Data; 10.3.4 Messages/Events; 10.3.5 Plans; 10.4 Automatic Generation of Skeleton Code; A Electronic Bookstore; B Descriptor Forms; C The AUML Notation; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 to