Intelligent Agents and Their Applications

✍ Scribed by H. Sevay, C. Tsatsoulis (auth.), Professor Lakhmi C. Jain, Professor Zhengxin Chen, Nikhil Ichalkaranje (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 98
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligent agents are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. An intelligent agent consists of a software system capable of performing intelligent tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment. They can be characterised by various attributes including: autonomous, adaptive, collaborative, communicative, mobile, and reactive. Many problems are not well defined and the information needed to make decisions is not available. These problems are not easy to solve using conventional computing approaches. Here, the intelligent agent paradigm may play a major role in helping to solve these problems. This book, written for application researchers, covers a broad selection of research results that demonstrate, in an authoritative and clear manner, the applications of agents within our information society.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Agent-Based Intelligent Information Dissemination in Dynamically Changing Environments....Pages 1-26
Automating Human Information Agents....Pages 27-58
Knowledge Robots for Knowledge Workers: Self-Learning Agents Connecting Information and Skills....Pages 59-81
Ontologies in Web Intelligence....Pages 83-100
Software Agents for Internet-Based Systems and Their Design....Pages 101-147
Compositional Design and Maintenance of Broker Agents....Pages 149-172
Collective Behavior Evolution in a Group of Cooperating Agents....Pages 173-216
Applications of Information Agent Systems....Pages 217-248
The Use of Virtual Worlds and Animated Personas to Improve Healthcare Knowledge and Self-Care Behavior: The Case of the HEART-SENSE Game....Pages 249-294
Using Agents to Build a Practical Implementation of the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) System....Pages 295-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-338

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electrical Engineering