Software Agents and Soft Computing Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence: Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by H. S. Nwana, D. T. Ndumu (auth.), Hyacinth S. Nwana, Nader Azarmi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1198 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This carefully arranged book is mainly based on work done by the Intelligent Systems Research Group at BT Laboratories, essentially in cooperation with internationally leading scientists from outside BT. It opens with a detailed introduction surveying the area and putting the work presented in context. Conceptual issues surrounding intelligent agents and multi-agent systems are investigated and the practical and industrial applicability of this exciting new technology is demonstrated. One section is devoted to the rationale, philosophy, and techniques of the emerging area of soft computing. The final section outlines the broader context in dealing with machine intelligence in general and intelligent software systems in particular.

✦ Table of Contents

An introduction to agent technology....Pages 1-26
Artificial societies and psychological agents....Pages 27-41
Co-ordination in multi-agent systems....Pages 42-58
Software agent technologies....Pages 59-78
Information agents for the World Wide Web....Pages 79-99
Multi-agent matchmaking....Pages 100-115
An application of social filtering to movie recommendation....Pages 116-131
Agents of change in business process management....Pages 132-145
Agents, mobility and multimedia information....Pages 146-159
A real-life experiment in creating an agent marketplace....Pages 160-179
The roles of fuzzy logic and soft computing in the conception, design and deployment of intelligent systems....Pages 181-190
An introduction to soft computing — A tool for building intelligent systems....Pages 191-210
Basic concepts of a fuzzy logic data browser with applications....Pages 211-241
Towards soft computing....Pages 242-249
The rise of machine intelligence....Pages 251-261
Intelligent software systems....Pages 262-275
Machine intelligibility and the duality principle....Pages 276-291

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems