Intelligent Agents: New Book Announcement (fwd)
Timothy Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
From: Timothy Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 13:24:27 -0500
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You might find this of interest. Tim
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From: Michael Wooldridge <M.Wooldridge@doc.mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Intelligent Agents: New Book Announcement
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:23:46 -0800
** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK **
INTELLIGENT AGENTS
Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Edited by Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI - Volume 890
Published January 1995
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/atal94.html
** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK ** ** NEW BOOK **
INTRODUCTION
The notion of an intelligent autonomous agent is one of the most important
and exciting concepts to emerge in computer science in the 1990s. Agent
technology looks set to radically alter not only the way in which we
interact with computers, but also the way we conceptualise and build com-
plex systems. This exciting and up-to-date volume is one of the first texts
to deal with a fundamental aspect of this emerging technology: the design
and construction of agents. The book is divided into four parts. The first
contains a detailed introductory article, which presents the key research
issues in the theory and practice of intelligent agents; the article con-
tains a glossary of key terms to help the reader new to the field, a sum-
mary of implemented systems, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The
second part contains a number of articles on the theory of intelligent
agents; the third part contains articles on agent architectures (software
engineering models of agents), and the final part contains articles on
agent programming languages - the book is the first to deal specifically
with this novel area. An index is provided for easy reference.
The range of issues covered by the articles, together with the comprehen-
sive review, glossary, summary of key systems, bibliography, and index make
the book an essential source text for practitioners, theorists, and stu-
dents that are either working or hoping to work in this exciting new field.
SUMMARY
`Intelligent Agents - Theories, Architectures, and Languages', edited by
Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings. Published in January 1995 by
Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 890.
ISBN 3-540-58855-8. 407pp. Includes index. Price DM 86,00 softback.
Further details are available via the WWW; see the URL listed above.
ORDERING INFORMATION
To order copies of this book, you may use the form below:
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