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Understanding Agent Systems

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Mark d’Inverno

    1. Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK

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  2. Michael Luck

    1. Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Part of the book series: Springer Series on Agent Technology (SSAT)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. The Agent Landscape

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 1-13

  3. The smart Agent Framework

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 15-38

  4. Agent Relationships

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 39-67

  5. An Operational Analysis of Agent Relationships

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 69-90

  6. Sociological Agents

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 91-123

  7. The Contract Net as a Goal Directed System

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 125-139

  8. Computational Architecture for BDI Agents

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 141-151

  9. Evaluating Social Dependence Networks

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 153-167

  10. Conclusions

    • Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck
    Pages 169-172

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-191
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About this book

Around ten years ago, when we were both PhD students, working on different but related aspects of artificial intelligence, we shared an office in the furthest corner of the Department of Computer Science at University College London. Our friendship began then, but our professional collaboration only really got going when we both left, one of us moving the few yards to the University of Westminster and the other further afield to the University of Warwick and later the University of Southampton. Nevertheless, we can trace back many of our inspirations to those days at UCL, in discussions with Derek Long, John Campbell, Maria Fox and John Wolstencroft, who all contributed to our initial enthusiasm for working in this area. On leaving UCL, however, we tried to bring our research interests together in the newly emerging area of agent-based systems, but found difficulties in communica­ tion with each other over basic terms and concepts, simply due to the immaturity of the field. In other words, the problems we had in finding a base on which to develop our ideas set us on a long path, over a number of years, resulting in our construction and refinement of a conceptual framework within which to define, analyse and ex­ plore different aspects of agents and multi-agents systems. This is the work reported in this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK

    Mark d’Inverno

  • Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Michael Luck

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