Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems

✍ Scribed by Mario Kusek, Kresimir Jurasovic (auth.), Anne Hãkansson, Ronald Hartung, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research in multi-agent systems offers a promising technology for problems with networks, online trading and negotiations but also social structures and communication. This is a book on agent and multi-agent technology for internet and enterprise systems. The book is a pioneer in the combination of the fields and is based on the concept of developing a platform to share ideas and presents research in technology in the field and application to real problems. The chapters range over both applications, illustrating the possible uses of agents in an enterprise domain, and design and analytic methods, needed to provide the solid foundation required for practical systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Performance Models for Multi-agent Systems and Mobile Agent Network....Pages 1-24
Service Oriented Architecture and Agents: Parallels and Opportunities....Pages 25-48
Service Fusion in Mobile Contexts....Pages 49-67
Environmental Impact Assessment by Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 69-89
Multi-Agent Forex Trading System....Pages 91-118
Information Coordination Using Meta-agents in Information Logistics Processes....Pages 119-136
Social Network Analysis Based Approach to Trust Modeling for Autonomous Multi-agent Systems....Pages 137-156
Logical Analysis of Multi-agent Kripke Structures....Pages 157-180
Multi-Agent Systems and Large State Spaces....Pages 181-205
Automatically Creating Hierarchies of Agents and Meta-agents Using Clustering....Pages 207-228
A Role-Based Cognitive Architecture for Multi-Agent Teaming....Pages 229-255
Mobile Agents and Eventually Perfect Predicate Detection: An Intelligent General Approach to Monitoring Distributed Systems....Pages 257-274
Personalized Ontology-Based Recommender Systems for Multimedia Objects....Pages 275-292
Toward Emotional E-Commerce....Pages 293-321
Web-Based Affective Human-Agent Interaction Generation....Pages 323-345
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)