Heterogeneous agent systems / V.S. Subrahmanian [and others].

Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans, software agents act autonomously with prescribed ba...

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Other Authors: Subrahmanian, V. S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. IMPACT architecture
  • 3. service description language
  • 4. Accessing legacy data and software
  • 5. IMPACT server implementation
  • 6. Agent programs
  • 7. Meta agent programs
  • 8. Temporal agent programs
  • 9. Probabilistic agent programs
  • 10. Secure agent programs
  • 11. Complexity results
  • 12. Implementing agents
  • 13. An example application
  • 14. Conclusions.