Understanding Agent System

Understanding Agent Systems

Mark d'Inverno and Michael Luck

Series: Springer Series on Agent Technology,

2nd rev. and extended ed., 2004, XVIII, 240 p., Hardcover

ISBN: 3-540-40700-6

An introductory level text on agent system. Authers tried to define a common set of terminology for this research area.

Topics:

• The Agent Landscape


• The SMART Agent Frameworks


• Agent Relationships


• An Operational Analysis of Agent Relationships


• Sociological Agents


• The Contract Net as a Goal Directed System


• Computational Architecture for BDI Agents


• Evaluating Social Dependence Networks


• Z Specification Language

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Reasoning about Rational Agents

Reasoning about Rational Agents

Wooldridge, Michael, J.

2000, MIT. ISBN: 0-262-23213-8

Aside of the strong theories like Decision Theory or Game Theory (in muti-agent senario), which give few clues to implementation, the author proposed a logic based practical reasoning decision making from the "belief-desire-intention" (BDI) model.
The author also introduced a formal framework, LORA, (Logic Of Rational Agents), as a tool for understanding and implementing the BDI.

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