Coordination of Internet Agents

Models, Technologies, and Applications

• Author(s): Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli, Matthias Klusch, Robert Tolksdorf,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 524
• ISBN_10: 3662044013
  ISBN_13: 9783662044018
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Networking / Hardware , Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General , Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General , Computers / Programming / General , Computers / Languages / General , Computers / Networking / General ,

Description:... As today's most complex computing environment, the Internet confronts IT researchers, system designers, and application developers with completely new challenges and, as a fascinating new computing paradigm, agent technology has recently attracted broad interest and strong hopes for shaping the future information society. Relating both, the Internet and agents, opens up a whole new range of advanced applications in vibrant subfields of information technology such as middleware, mobile commerce, e-learning, collaborative working, and intelligent information services. Many modern advanced systems are likely to exploit Internet agents - and exploiting Internet agents mostly means dealing with coordination models and technologies of various sorts. This monograph-like anthology is the first systematic guide to models and enabling technologies for the coordination of intelligent agents on the Internet and respective applications.