Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering
Subtitle: Design and Implementation (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9783540419822
Subjects: Computer architecture & logic design; Object-oriented programming (OOP); Software engineering; Electronic data processing; Data Processing - General; Intelligent agents (Computer s; Artificial Intelligence; Distributed Computer Systems; Computers; Computers - General Information; Distributed processing; Computer Books: Languages; Distributed artificial intelligence; Artificial Intelligence - General; Client-Server Computing - General; General; Autonomous Agents; CORBA; Collective Robotics; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Coordination; Distributed Systems; E-Commerce; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Distributed artificial intelli
Description: Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system. Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.