| Description |
xix, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Sect. 1. Introduction -- Sect. 2. From Artificial Intelligence Comes Intelligent Agents -- Sect. 3. Converging Technologies that Facilitate and Enable Agents -- Sect. 4. Agent-Enabling Infrastructures -- Sect. 5. Agent Architectures -- Sect. 6. Agent-Design Considerations -- Sect. 7. Developing Intelligent Agents Now -- Sect. 8. Agent Applications -- Sect. 9. Agent Futures |
| Summary |
How you can build smarter distributed systems in any domain using intelligent agents. This practical and comprehensive guide explains what intelligent agents (IAs) are, how systems of agents can collaborate to solve difficult problems, the kinds of commercially-available technologies that can be used to build them, and how they can make today's and tomorrow's information systems easier to manage and use. The authors examine virtually all aspects of intelligent agent technology, in a logical progression of topics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index |
| Subject |
Computer software -- Development.
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Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Intelligent agents -- Computer software
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| Author |
Johnson, Jay, 1957-
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| LC no. |
97024364 |
| ISBN |
0070350116 |
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