1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466336103316

Titolo

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems [[electronic resource] ] : 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2002, Tokyo, Japan, August 18-19, 2002. Proceedings / / edited by Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Jaeho Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002

ISBN

3-540-45680-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2002.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 230 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 2413

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Software engineering

Computer logic

Computer communication systems

Artificial Intelligence

Software Engineering

Logics and Meanings of Programs

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Architecture, Models, and Mechanisms -- An Architecture for Normative Reactive Agents -- A Real-Time Agent Architecture: Design, Implementation and Evaluation -- Individual Level Analysis Using Decision Making Features in Multiagent Based Simulation -- False-Name-Proof Multi-unit Auction Protocol Utilizing Greedy Allocation Based on Approximate Evaluation Values -- Coordination, Negotiation, and Organization -- Developing Alternative Mechanisms for Multiagent Coordination -- An Operational Semantics for Negotiating Agents -- An Organizational Metamodel for the Design of Catalogues of Communicative Actions -- Principles for Dynamic Multi-agent Organizations -- Agent-Based Interface -- Conducting the Disambiguation Dialogues between Software Agent Sellers and Human



Buyers -- Mutual Learning of Mind Reading between a Human and a Life-Like Agent -- Automatic Short Story Generator Based on Autonomous Agents -- Meta-level Architecture for Executing Multi-agent Scenarios -- Applications -- Application-Oriented Flow Control in Agent-Based Network Middleware -- Continuous Truck Delivery Scheduling and Execution System with Multiple Agents -- Designing Agents for Context-Rich Textual Information Tasks.

Sommario/riassunto

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several (semi-)autonomous agents interact with each other or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfy some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activities on the part of agents having common or distinct goals, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent agents. This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2002, the 5th Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, held in Tokyo, Japan, on August 18–19, 2002 in conjunction with the 7th Paci?c Rim International Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (PRICAI-02). PRIMA is a series of workshops on - tonomous agents and multi-agent systems, integrating activities in the Asian and Paci?c Rim countries. PRIMA 2002 built on the great success of its pre- cessors, PRIMA’98 in Singapore, PRIMA’99 in Kyoto, Japan, PRIMA 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, and PRIMA 2001 in Taipei, Taiwan. We received 35 submissions to this workshop from 10 countries. Each paper was reviewed by three internationally renowned program committee members. After careful reviews, 15 papers were selected for this volume. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop. We would also like to thank all the program committee members for their splendid work in reviewing the papers. Finally, we thank the editorial sta? of Springer-Verlag for publishing this volume in the Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827850903321

Autore

Stout Harry S.

Titolo

The New England soul : preaching and religious culture in colonial New England / / Harry S. Stout

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-19-992139-3

Edizione

[Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

251.00974

251/.00974

Soggetti

Preaching - New England - History

New England Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: INVENTION, 1620-1665; 1. The Institutional Setting of the Sermon; 2. Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation; 3. "Sion's Out-Casts"; PART II: ARRANGEMENT, 1666-1700; 4. Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances; 5. Returning unto God: The Conversion of the Children; 6. Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at Century's End; PART III: STYLE, 1701-1730; 7. Anglicization; 8. Regular Preaching and the New Pietism; 9. Israel's Constitution; PART IV: DELIVERY, 1731-1763; 10. Awakening; 11. A New Balance; 12. War

PART V: MEMORY, 1764-177613. Trust in God; 14. A Nation Born at Once; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

""Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."" - Journal of American History ""Simply breatht