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Book Real Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents

Download or read book Real Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents written by Toru Ishida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous agents or multiagent systems are computational systems in which several computational agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks. These systems may involve computational agents having common goals or distinct goals. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents focuses on extending real-time search algorithms for autonomous agents and for a multiagent world. Although real-time search provides an attractive framework for resource-bounded problem solving, the behavior of the problem solver is not rational enough for autonomous agents. The problem solver always keeps the record of its moves and the problem solver cannot utilize and improve previous experiments. Other problems are that although the algorithms interleave planning and execution, they cannot be directly applied to a multiagent world. The problem solver cannot adapt to the dynamically changing goals and the problem solver cannot cooperatively solve problems with other problem solvers. This book deals with all these issues. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents serves as an excellent resource for researchers and engineers interested in both practical references and some theoretical basis for agent/multiagent systems. The book can also be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Book Ant Algorithms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marco Dorigo
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2003-08-02
  • ISBN : 3540457240
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Ant Algorithms written by Marco Dorigo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms, ANTS 2002, held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2002. The 17 revised full papers, 11 short papers, and extended poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers deal with theoretical and foundational aspects and a variety of new variants of ant algorithms as well as with a broad variety of optimization applications in networking and operations research. All in all, this book presents the state of the art in research and development in the emerging field of ant algorithms

Book Multiagent Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerhard Weiss
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780262731317
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book Multiagent Systems written by Gerhard Weiss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence, this text provides coverage of basic topics as well as closely-related ones. It emphasizes aspects of both theory and application and includes exercises of varying degrees of difficulty.

Book Heuristic Search

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Edelkamp
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2011-05-31
  • ISBN : 0080919731
  • Pages : 865 pages

Download or read book Heuristic Search written by Stefan Edelkamp and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search has been vital to artificial intelligence from the very beginning as a core technique in problem solving. The authors present a thorough overview of heuristic search with a balance of discussion between theoretical analysis and efficient implementation and application to real-world problems. Current developments in search such as pattern databases and search with efficient use of external memory and parallel processing units on main boards and graphics cards are detailed. Heuristic search as a problem solving tool is demonstrated in applications for puzzle solving, game playing, constraint satisfaction and machine learning. While no previous familiarity with heuristic search is necessary the reader should have a basic knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and calculus. Real-world case studies and chapter ending exercises help to create a full and realized picture of how search fits into the world of artificial intelligence and the one around us. - Provides real-world success stories and case studies for heuristic search algorithms - Includes many AI developments not yet covered in textbooks such as pattern databases, symbolic search, and parallel processing units

Book Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVIII

Download or read book Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVIII written by Max Bramer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2011, the Thirty-first SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2011 in both the technical and the application streams. They present new and innovative developments and applications, divided into technical stream sections on Planning, Evolutionary Algorithms, Speech and Vision, and Machine Learning, followed by application stream sections on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms and AI in Action. The volume also includes the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the twenty-eighth volume in the Research and Development in Intelligent Systems series, which also incorporates the nineteenth volume in the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems series. These series are essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field.

Book Advances in Artificial Intelligence    IBERAMIA 2014

Download or read book Advances in Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA 2014 written by Ana L.C. Bazzan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2014, held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, in November 2014. The 64 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge engineering, knowledge representation and probabilistic reasoning; planning and scheduling; natural language processing; machine learning; fuzzy systems; knowledge discovery and data mining; bio-inspired computing; robotics; vision; multi-agent systems; agent-based modeling and simulation; AI in education, affective computing, and human-computer interaction; applications of AI; and ambient intelligence.

Book Making Strategies in Spatial Planning

Download or read book Making Strategies in Spatial Planning written by Maria Cerreta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners’ work might appeal to academics content to study ‘what should be’, but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse into an optimism that ‘good process’ is all that strategic planning requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work, for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of negotiating out con icting interests and values – and doing so in ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content with mere ‘compromise’. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see expertise and substantive analysis as being ‘on tap’, ready to put into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically ‘on top’.

Book Cooperative Design  Visualization  and Engineering

Download or read book Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering written by Yuhua Luo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the complexity of design, visualization and engineering increases rapidly, single-user's e?ort is no longer enough to accomplishever-growingrequirements. Group e?ort becomes essential. There are many industrial areas that demand strong CDVE support such as mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, architecture design, engineering and building construction (AEC), etc. There are numerousother application areaswhere cooperativeand concurrent working is becoming popular, such as entertainment program development, networked gaming, simulation, collaborative learning, etc. Successful cooperative design, visualization and engineering highly depend on the advances in fundamental research areas such as concurrent proce- ing, middleware, agent-based methods, design patterns, distributed systems, databases, transport protocols in network communication, human machine - teraction, group behavior ..., just to name a few. There is a very tight re- tionship between cooperative design, visualization and engineering. Cooperative design will become impossible without cooperative visualization while coop- ative engineering processes would not be complete without cooperative design and visualization. From my research experience in the?eld since 1996 in the Spanish National R & D Project CICYT TEL 96-0544, 3D Cooperative Design System (Sistemas Cooperativos de Diseo en 3D), up to the European Esprit (IST) Project No.

Book Active Media Technology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jiming Liu
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2002-01-18
  • ISBN : 3540430350
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Active Media Technology written by Jiming Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few years have witnessed rapid scienti?c and technological devel- ments in human-centered, seamless computing environments, interfaces, de- ces, and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best charac- rized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new digital media in all aspects of human life. This - lume contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Computer Science Conference: Active Media Technology (AMT 2001), the ?rst conference of its kind, capturing the state of research and development in AMT and the latest architectures, prototypes, tools, and ?elded systems that demonstrate or enable AMT. The volume is organized into the following eight parts: I. Smart Digital - dia; II. Web Personalization; III. Active Interfaces; IV. Autonomous Agent - proaches; V. Facial Image Processing; VI. AMT-Supported Commerce, Business, Learning, and Health Care; VII. Tools and Techniques; and VIII. Algorithms.

Book Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games written by Pedro Antonio González-Calero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents some of the most relevant results from academia in the area of Artificial Intelligence for games. It emphasizes well theoretically supported work supported by developed prototypes, which should lead into integration of academic AI techniques into current electronic entertainment games. The book elaborates on the main results produced in Academia within the last 10 years regarding all aspects of Artificial Intelligence for games, including pathfinding, decision making, and learning. A general theme of the book is the coverage of techniques for facilitating the construction of flexible not prescripted AI for agents in games. Regarding pathfinding, the book includes new techniques for implementing real-time search methods that improve the results obtained through AI, as well as techniques for learning pathfinding behavior by observing actual players. Regarding decision making, the book describes new techniques for authoring tools that facilitate the construction by game designers (typically nonprogrammers) of behavior controlling software, by reusing patterns or actual cases of past behavior. Additionally, the book will cover a number of approaches proposed for extending the essentially pre-scripted nature of current commercial videogames AI into a more interactive form of narrative, where the story emerges from the interaction with the player. Some of those approaches rely on a layered architecture for the character AI, including beliefs, intentions and emotions, taking ideas from research on agent systems. The book also includes chapters on techniques for automatically or semiautomatically learning complex behavior from recorded traces of human or automatic players using different combinations of reinforcement learning, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms.

Book AAAI 99

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1032 pages

Download or read book AAAI 99 written by American Association for Artificial Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AAAI proceedings describe innovative concepts, techniques, perspectives, and observations that present promising research directions in artificial intelligence. The annual AAAI National Conference and Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference provide a forum for information exchange and interaction among researchers from all disciplines of AI. Contributions include theoretical, experimental, and empirical results. The technical papers published in this proceedings were selected by a rigorous, double-blind review process. The National Conference papers cover a myriad of topics, including agents, artificial intelligence and the world wide web, cognitive systems, constraint satisfaction problems, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, learning, model-based reasoning, natural language and information retrieval, planning, robotics, satisfiability, scheduling, search, tractable reasoning, and vision. The Innovative Applications Conference papers feature deployed and emerging applications. These papers will be of special benefit to AI applications developers. In addition, abstracts from the Invited talks, Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, Robotic Competition and Exhibition, SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium, and Student programs are also included in this proceedings.

Book Autonomy Through Real time Learning and OpenNARS for Applications

Download or read book Autonomy Through Real time Learning and OpenNARS for Applications written by Patrick Hammer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes an attempt to enhance the autonomy of intelligent agents via real-time learning.In nature, the ability to learn at runtime gives species which can do so key advantages over others. While most AI systems do not need to have this ability but can be trained before deployment, it allows agents to adapt, at runtime, to changing and generally unknown circumstances, and then to exploit their environment for their own purposes. To reach this goal, in this thesis a pragmatic design (ONA) for a general-purpose reasoner incorporating Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (NARS) theory is explored. The design and implementation is presented in detail, in addition to the theoretical foundation. Then, experiments related to various system capabilities are carried out and summarized, together with application projects where ONA is utilized: a traffic surveillance application in the Smart City domain to identify traffic anomalies through real-time reasoning and learning, and a system to help first responders by providing driving assistance and presenting of mission-critical information. Also it is shown how reliable real-time learning can help to increase autonomy of intelligent agents beyond the current state-of-the-art. Here, theoretical and practical comparisons with established frameworks and specific techniques such as Q-Learning are made, and it is shown that ONA does also work in non-Markovian environments where Q-Learning cannot be applied. Some of the reasoner's capabilities are also demonstrated on real robotic hardware. The experiments there show combining learning knowledge at runtime with the utilization of only partly complete mission-related background knowledge given by the designer, allowing the agent to perform a complex task from an only minimal mission specification which does not include learnable details. Overall, ONA is suitable for autonomous agents as it combines, in a single technique, the strengths of behavior learning, which is usually captured by Reinforcement Learning, and means-end reasoning (such as Belief-Desire-Intention models with planner) to effectively utilize knowledge expressed by a designer.

Book Autonomous Agents

Download or read book Autonomous Agents written by George A. Bekey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agent is a system capable of perceiving the environment, reasoning with the percepts and then acting upon the world. Agents can be purely software systems, in which case their percepts and output `actions' are encoded binary strings. However, agents can also be realized in hardware, and then they are robots. The Artificial Intelligence community frequently views robots as embodied intelligent agents. The First International Conference on Autonomous Agents was held in Santa Monica, California, in February 1997. This conference brought together researchers from around the world with interests in agents, whether implemented purely in software or in hardware. The conference featured such topics as intelligent software agents, agents in virtual environments, agents in the entertainment industry, and robotic agents. Papers on robotic agents were selected for this volume. Autonomous Agents will be of interest to researchers and students in the area of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Book ECAI 2000

Download or read book ECAI 2000 written by Werner Horn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems  Best and Visionary Papers

Download or read book Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Best and Visionary Papers written by Francesco Amigoni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agent and Multi Agent Systems  Technologies and Applications

Download or read book Agent and Multi Agent Systems Technologies and Applications written by Geun Sik Jo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following from the very successful First KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May–1 June 2007, the second event in the KES-AMSTA symposium series (KES-AMSTA 2008) was held in Incheon, Korea, March 26–28, 2008. The symposium was organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, KES International and the KES Focus Group on Agent and Mul- agent Systems. The KES-AMSTA Symposium Series is a sub-series of the KES Conference Series. The aim of the symposium was to provide an international forum for scientific research into the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agent and multi-agent systems are related to the modern software which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. A key development in the field of agent and multi-agent systems has been the specification of agent communication languages and formalization of ontologies. Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain. The symposium attracted a very large number of scientists and practitioners who submitted their papers for nine main tracks concerning the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, a doctoral track and two special sessions.

Book Machine Learning Proceedings 1989

Download or read book Machine Learning Proceedings 1989 written by Alberto Maria Segre and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine Learning Proceedings 1989