Autonomous Interaction
While we have considered many aspects of agent systems, especially the configurations that arise in systems of multiple interacting agents, we have not explicitly addressed the issues underlying interaction itself. In this chapter we re-examine what it me
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Mark d'Inverno Michael Luck
Understanding Agent Systems Second Edition, Revised and Extended With 42 Figures
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Springer
Mark d'Inverno
Michael Luck
Cavendish School of Computer Science Univeristy of Westminster 9-18 Euston Centre LondonNW13ET Uni ted Kindom [email protected]
School ofElectronic s and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SOl? lBJ United Kingdom mm/@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Preface to the Second Edition
Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extending the work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5,54,79,80, 108-110,116,118-120,122]. In this second edition, we have revised, updated and corrected the existing text and added three new chapters. These chapters provide a broader coverage of the fie1d of agents, and show in more detail how the specific framework described can be used to examine other areas. In Chapter 6, we use the concepts of discovery to apply the framework to autonomous interaction in multiagent systems; in Chapter 10 we use it for considering normative agents and systems; and in Chapter 11 we describe work on an implementation and development environment. As a course text, the book can be considered in different parts, as follows. - Chapter I and Chapter 2 offer a basic introduction to agents and their core components. - Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 cover relatio
