This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
Intelligence, collaboration and mobility are the main important features in designing agents for electronic commercial systems. But very few systems permit to implement agents whi...
Agents that operate in a multi-agent system need an efficient strategy to handle their encounters with other agents involved. Searching for an optimal interactive strategy is a ha...
Autonomy, adaptability, scalability, and flexible communications are all attributes of agents and multi-agent systems which suggest that they may offer timely solutions for dealin...
Brendan Jennings, Rob Brennan, Rune Gustavsson, Ro...
: Software agent technology has matured enough to produce intelligent agents, which can be used to control a large number of concurrent engineering tasks. Multi-agent systems are c...
Pericles A. Mitkas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Dionisi...