Soft Computing Agents
Subtitle: New Trends for Designing Autonomous Systems
By: edited by Vincenzo Loia, Salvatore Sessa
Contributors: Sessa, Salvatore
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 75; Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 75
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD; Imprint: Physica
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9783662003503; 9783790818154
Subjects: Computer science; Artificial intelligence
Description: In the existing literature the intersection of agent technology with soft computing is a very recent and attractive issue. The book is devoted to a unifying perspective of this topic. In contains contributions by well-known authors whose expertise is universally recognized in these crossing areas. Particular emphasis is devoted to advanced research projects involved with Web-related technologies. Fundamental topics explored in this volume are: - formal theories and logics to represent and handle imprecise communications acts among communities of agents; - soft-computing approaches to define distributed problem-solving techniques to represent and reason about large-scale control systems; - decomposition of a complex system into autonomous or semiautonomous agents through evolutionary models; - enrichment of agent programming paradigm for cooperative soft-computing processing.
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Table of contents: title: "Conscious" Software: A Computational View of Mind; title: Intelligent Agents in Granular Worlds; title: Controlling Effective Introns for Multi-Agent Learning by Means of Genetic Programming; title: TalkMine: A Soft Computing Approach to Adaptive Knowledge Recommendation; title: A Soft-Computing Distributed Artificial Intelligence Architecture for Intelligent Buildings; title: Towards a Multiagent Design Principle: Analyzing an Organizational-Learning Oriented Classifier System; title: A Human-Centered Approach for Intelligent Internet Applications; title: A Soft Computing Framework for Adaptive Agents.