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Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition
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Author: Joseph P. Bigus, Jennifer Bigus
An essential guide to intelligent agent technologies-from straightforward Java implementations and practical agent applications to artificial intelligence algorithms
The Bigus team overhauls their bestselling guide to reflect changes in the Java platform and share the latest ideas in applied AI, software agents, and multiagent systems. The n...
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Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java
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Author: Jeff Heaton
The content and services available on the web continue to be accessed mostly through direct human control. But this is changing. Increasingly, users rely on automated agents that save them time and effort by programmatically retrieving content, performing complex interactions, and aggregating data from diverse sources. Programming Spiders, Bots, an...
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Affective Computing
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Author: Rosalind W. Picard
As a scientist who works in computer development, Rosalind Picard is accustomed to working with what is rational and logical. But in her research on how to enable computers to better perceive the world, she discovered something surprising: In the human brain, a critical part of our ability to see and perceive is not logical, but emotional. Therefor...
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Embodied Conversational Agents
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Author: Justine Cassell (Editor), Joseph Sullivan (Editor), Scott Prevost (Editor), Elizabeth Churchill (Editor)
Embodied conversational agents are computer-generated cartoonlike characters that demonstrate many of the same properties as humans in face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. They constitute a type of (a) multimodal interface where the modalities are those natural to human conve...
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Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation
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Author: Lucja M. Iwanska, Stuart C. Shapiro (Editor)
Natural language (NL) refers to human language--complex, irregular, diverse, with all its philosophical problems of meaning and context. Setting a new direction in AI research, this book explores the development of knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems that simulate the role of NL in human information and knowledge processing.
Trad...
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Understanding Agent Systems
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Author: Mark D'Inverno (Editor), Michael Luck (Editor)
Presents a formal approach to dealing with agents and agent systems. The practicability of this approach is verified by applying the formal framework to three detailed case studies.
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Autonomous Agents and Mult-Agent Systems : Explorations in Learning, Self-Organization and Adaptive Computation
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Author: Jiming Liu
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Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents
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Author: Mukesh Patel (Editor), Vasant Honavar (Editor), Karthik Balakrishnan (Editor),
Among the first uses of the computer was the development of programs to model perception, reasoning, learning, and evolution. Further developments resulted in computers and programs that exhibit aspects of intelligent behavior. The field of artificial intelligence is based on the premise that thought processes can be computationally modeled. Comput...
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Rules of Encounter
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Author: Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Gilad Zlotkin
Rules of Encounter applies the general approach and the mathematical tools of game theory in a formal analysis of rules (or protocols) governing the high-level behavior of interacting heterogeneous computer systems. It describes a theory of high-level protocol design that can be used to constrain manipulation and harness the potential of automated ...
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Intelligent Agents and Their Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 98)
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Author: L. C. Jain (Editor), Zhengxin Chen (Editor), Nikhil Ichalkaranje (Editor)
Intelligent agents are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. An intelligent agent consists of a software system capable of performing intelligent tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment. They can be characterized by various attributes including: autonomous, adaptive, collaborative, communicative, mobil...
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Multiagent Systems
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Author: Gerhard Weiss (Editor)
This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence that is suitable as a textbook. The book provides detailed coverage of basic topics as well as several closely related ones.
Unlike traditional textbooks, the book brings together many leading experts, guaranteeing a broad ...
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Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media
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Author: R. Earnshaw (Editor), J. Vince (Editor)
As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use 'intelligent' problem solving tools. 'Intelligent Agents' ar...
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Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots
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Author: Joseph Ayers (Editor), Joel L. Davis (Editor), Alan Rudolph (Editor)
The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they...
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Intelligent Support Systems for Marketing Decisions (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 54)
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Author: Yannis Siskos, Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis
Intelligent Support Systems for Marketing Decisions examines new product development, market penetration strategies, and other marketing decisions utilizing a confluence of methods, including Decision Support Systems (DSS), Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Multicriteria Analysis. The authors systematically examine the use and implementation...
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AI Techniques for Game Programming
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Author: Mat Buckland
AI Techniques for Game Programming tackles the difficult topics of genetic algorithms and neural networks, explaining them in "plain English". Gone are the tortuous mathematic equations and abstract examples to be found in other books. Each chapter will take you through the theory a step at a time using fun, practical examples, providing you with a...
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Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics
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Author: Stan Gibilisco, Dale Pierre Layman
This handy collection of straightforward, to-the-point definitions is exactly what robotics and artificial intelligence hobbyists need to get and stay up to speed with all new terms that have recently emerged in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Written by an award-winning electronics author, the Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics delivers...
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Emotions in Humans and Artifacts
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Author: Robert Trappl (Editor), Paolo Petta (Editor), Sabine Payr (Editor)
Emotions have been much studied and discussed in recent years. Most books, however, treat only one aspect of emotions, such as emotions and the brain, emotions and well-being, or emotions and computer agents. This interdisciplinary book presents recent work on emotions in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, computer science, artificial int...
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Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction
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Author: Paul Dourish
Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "emb...
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Computational Intelligence : An Introduction
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Author: Andries P. Engelbrecht
Can computers be intelligent?
This question causes even more debate than the definitions of intelligence do.
Computational intelligence is the study of adaptive mechanisms to enable or facilitate intelligent behaviour in complex and changing environments. As such, computational intelligence encompasses artificial neural networks, evol...
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LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual
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Author: Ralph Hempel
LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual provides complete coverage of the ultimate LEGO Spybotics system. Author Ralph Hempel begins with a Spybotics overview and then delves into the nitty-gritty of Spybotics, including systems training, construction and care, agent communications, mission selection, and even advanced topics, such as how to cu...
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Intelligent Agent Software Engineering
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Author: (ed.) Valentina Plekhanova
From theoretical and practical viewpoints, the application of intelligent software agents is a topic of major interest. There has been a growing interest not only in new methodologies for development of intelligent software agents, but also the way in which these methodologies can be supported by theories and practice. Intelligent Agent Software En...
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Autonomous Robotic Systems
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Author: Changjiu Zhou (Editor), Dario Maravall (Editor), Da Ruan (Editor)
This book contains an edited collection of eighteen contributions on soft and hard computing techniques and their applications to autonomous robotic systems. Each contribution has been exclusively written for this volume by a leading researcher. The volume demonstrates the various ways that the soft computing and hard computing techniques can be us...
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