Constraint-Based Agents
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783540422587
Subjects: Algorithms & procedures; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Communications & Networking; Cybernetics & systems theory; Computer Programming; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Networking - General; AI planning; Autonomous agents; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; constraint-based agents; Programming - General; Computer games; Constraint programming (Comput; Constraint programming (Computer science); Intelligent agents (Computer s; Intelligent agents (Computer software)
Description: "Autonomous agents have become a vibrant research and development topic in recent years attracting activity and attention from various areas. The basic agent concept incorporates proactive autonomous units with goal-directed behavior and communication capabilities." "This book focuses on autonomous agents that can act in a goal-directed manner under real-time constraints and incomplete knowledge, being situated in a dynamic environment where resources may be restricted. To satisfy such comlex requirements, the author improves, combines, and applies results from areas like planning, constraint programming, and local search. The formal framework developed is evaluated by application to the field of computer games, which fit the problem context very well since most of them are played in real time and provide a highly interactive environment where environmental situations are changing rapidly."--Jacket.