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Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Praxis

By Les Gasser , Nicholas M. Avouris

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1992
ISBN
0792315855, 9780792315858
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5471305 bytes)
Series
Eurocourses: Computer and Information Science
Pages
256\256
Time added
2014-05-20 11:02:05

Description

Distributed AI is the branch of AI concerned with how to coordinate behavior among a collection of semi-autonomous problem-solving agents: how they can coordinate their knowledge, goals and plans to act together, to solve joint problems, or to make individually or globally rational decisions in the face of uncertainty and multiple, conflicting perspectives. Distributed, coordinated systems of problem solvers are rapidly becoming practical partners in critical human problem-solving environments, and DAI is a rapidly developing field of both application and research, experiencing explosive growth around the world. This book presents a collection of articles surveying several major recent developments in DAI. The book focuses on issues that arise in building practical DAI systems in real-world settings, and covers work undertaken in a number of major research and development projects in the U.S. and in Europe. It provides a synthesis of recent thinking, both theoretical and applied, on major problems of DAI in the 1990s.

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