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Collaboration between Human and Artificial Societies

Coordination and Agent-Based Distributed Computing

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Julian A. Padget

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, BATH, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1624)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Languages and Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Classification of Various Approaches for Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Programming

      • Jean-Pierre Briot, Rachid Guerraoui
      Pages 3-29

    3. Towards Meta-Agent Protocols

      • Andreas Kind, Julian Padget
      Pages 30-42

    4. Examples of Fuzziness in Compilers and Runtime Systems

      • Angela C. Sodan
      Pages 43-61

    5. Towards Rigorous Compiler Implementation Verification

      • Wolfgang Goerigk, Friedemann Simon
      Pages 62-73

    6. Shifting the Focus from Control to Communication: the STReams OBjects Environments Model of Communicating Agents

      • Stefano A. Cerri
      Pages 74-101

    7. Direct Manipulation, Scalability and the Internet

      • Don Cruickshank, Hugh Glaser
      Pages 102-112

  3. Agents and Capabilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Towards the Abstraction and Generalization of Actor-Based Architectures in Diagnostic Reasoning

      • Stefano A. Cerri, Antonio Gisolfi, Vincenzo Loia
      Pages 115-131

    3. Converting Declarative into Procedural (and Vice Versa)

      • Iain D. Craig
      Pages 132-141

    4. Reflective Reasoning in a Case-Based Reasoning Agent

      • Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Ulises Cortés, Javier Béjar, Ignasi R. Roda, Manel Poch
      Pages 142-158

    5. Modelling Rational Inquiry in Non-ideal Agents

      • Antonio Moreno, Ulises Cortés, Ton Sales
      Pages 159-181

    6. On the Process of Making Descriptive Rules

      • D. Riaño
      Pages 182-197

  4. Coordination and Collaboration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents

      • Carles Sierra, Peyman Faratin, Nick R. Jennings
      Pages 201-219

    3. Competing Software Agents Support Human Agents

      • Sabine Geldof, Walter Van de Velde
      Pages 220-233

    4. Coordination Developed by Learning from Evaluations

      • Edwin D. de Jong
      Pages 234-245

    5. Rules of Order for Electronic Group Decision Making – A Formalization Methodology

      • Henry Prakken, Thomas F. Gordon
      Pages 246-263

    6. Broadway: A Case-Based System for Cooperative Information Browsing on the World-Wide-Web

      • Michel Jaczynski, Brigitte Trousse
      Pages 264-283
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About this book

The full title of the HCM network project behind this volume is VIM: A virtual multicomputer for symbolic applications. The three strands which bound the network together were parallel systems, advanced compilation techniques andarti?cialintelligence witha commonsubstrate in the programminglanguage Lisp. The initial aim of the project was to demonstrate how the combination of these three technologies could be used to build a virtual multicomputer — an ephemeral, persistent machine of available heterogeneous computing resources — for large scale symbolic applications . The system would support a virtual processor abstraction to distribute data and tasks across the multicomputer, the actual physical composition of which may change dynamically. Our practical objective was to assist in the prototyping of dynamic distributed symbolic app- cations in arti?cial intelligence using whatever resources are available (probably networked workstations), so that the developed program could also be run on more exotic hardware without reprogramming. What we had not foreseen at the outset of the project was how agents would unify the strands at the application level, as distinct from the system level o- lined above. It was as a result of the agent in?uence that we held two workshops in May and December 1997 with the title “Collaboration between human and arti?cial societies”. The papers collected in this volume are a selection from presentations made at those two workshops. In each case the format consisted of a number of invited speakers plus presentations from the network partners.

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  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, BATH, UK

    Julian A. Padget

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