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In
Chapter 2 the basic notions of agents are fleshed out
through a review of several important agent architectures and
key multi-agent systems. The aim of this chapter is simply to
provide an adequate grounding for the issues that are covered
in the subsequent chapters on more specific developmentoriented
work. It can be taken simply as a necessary preliminary chapter,
or as a broad review of the field in its own right.
Key references for further reading from this chapter are:
- Wooldridge, M. and N. R. Jennings, “Agent
theories, architectures, and languages: A survey.”
In Intelligent Agents: Theories, Architectures, and Languages,
M. Wooldridge and N. Jennings (eds.), volume 890 of LNCS,
Springer, 1995,
pp. 1–39.
- Brooks, R. A., “A robust layered control system
for a mobile robot,” IEEE Journal of Robotics
and Automation, Vol. 2,
No. 1, 1986, pp. 14–23.
- Muller, J. P., M. Pischel, and M. Thiel, “Modelling
reactive behavior in vertically layered agent architectures.”
In Intelligent Agents: Theories, Architectures, and Languages,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 890, M. Wooldridge
and N. Jennings (eds.), Springer, 1995, pp. 261–276.
- Ferguson, I. A., “TouringMachines: An Architecture
for Dynamic, Rational, Mobile Agents,” PhD
thesis, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK, 1992. (Also
available as Technical Report No. 273, University of Cambridge
Computer
Laboratory).
- Georgeff, M. and A. Rao, “A report on AAII,”
IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and Their Applications),
Vol. 11, No. 6, 1996, pp. 89–92.
- d’Inverno, M., et al., “A formal specification
of dMARS.” In Intelligent Agents IV: Proceedings
of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures
and Languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1365,
M. Singh, A. Rao and M. Wooldridge (eds.), Springer, 1998,
pp. 155–176.
- Shoham, Y., “Agent-oriented programming,”
Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 60, No. 1, 1993, pp. 51–92.
- Wooldridge, M., “Agent-based software engineering,”
IEE Proceedings on Software Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 1,
1997, pp. 26–37.
- Nwana, H. S., “Software agents: An overview,”
Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1996, pp. 205–244.
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