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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2002, held in McLean, VA, USA in January 2002.The 32 revised full papers presented together with an invited article, 6 poster papers, and 2 panel reports were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation and learning, agent-based software engineering, agent architectures, agent communication and coordination, and innovative applications.

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Author:   Walt Truszkowski ,  Chris Rouff ,  Mike Hinchey
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   2564
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.510kg
ISBN:  

9783540407256

ISBN 10:   3540407251
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   21 August 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Invited Presentation.- A Personalizable Agent for Semantic Taxonomy-Based Web Search.- Adaptation and Learning.- AlphaWolf: Social Learning, Emotion and Development in Autonomous Virtual Agents.- Control and Behavior of a Massive Multi-agent System.- Developing Agents Populations with Ethogenetics.- Distributed Coordination of Resources via Wasp-Like Agents.- Homo Egualis Reinforcement Learning Agents for Load Balancing.- Experimental Swarm Design.- Learning in the Broker Agent.- Agent-Based Software Engineering.- The CoABS Grid.- Agent Based Approach to Service Description and Composition.- Intelligent Software Agents Technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory.- Testing and Monitoring Intelligent Agents.- Wireless Agents in Ad Hoc Networks.- Towards Complex Team Behavior in Multi-agent Systems Using a Commercial Agent Platform.- Creating Context-Aware Software Agents.- Agent Architectures.- An Evaluation of Philosophical Agent Architectures for Mission Robustness.- Considering Hierarchical Hybrid Systems for Intelligent Animated Agents.- Reasonable Machines: Analogical Reasoning in Autonomous Agent Design.- Seven Days in the Life of a Robotic Agent.- Communication and Coordination.- In Search of Simple and Responsible Agents.- Exploiting Reusable Knowledge to Enhance Multi-agents Capabilities: Explorations with Data Model and Glossary Repositories.- Communication and Coordination Support for Mobile, Transient and Distributed Agent Applications.- Where Should Complexity Go? Cooperation in Complex Agents with Minimal Communication.- Ontology Negotiation: How Agents Can Really Get to Know Each Other.- An Extended Bayesian Belief Network Model of Multi-agent Systems for Supply Chain Managements.- Agent Communication in DAML World.- Semantic Resolution for E-commerce.-An Approach to Knowledge Exchange and Sharing between Agents.- Learning Communication for Multi-agent Systems.- Innovative Applications.- Biological Analogs and Emergent Intelligence for Control of Stratospheric Balloon Constellations.- Cooperative Agents and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.- Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web.- Generic Agent Architecture for Embedded Intelligent Systems.- Poster Presentations.- Agents with Several Bodies.- Automatic Code Writing Agent.- The Agentcities Initiative: Connecting Agents Across the World.- Use of Ontology for Virtual Humans.- Person Perception for Social Agents: Research on Outfitting Social Agents with a Facial Trait Perception System.- Adapting Agent Infrastructure for Models of Human Agency.- Panel Reports.- Evolution of Agent Architectures.- Panel Discussion on Ontologies.

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