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Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence

Concepts and Applications

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  • © 1997

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  1. Hyacinth S. Nwana
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  2. Nader Azarmi
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1198)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. An introduction to agent technology

    • H. S. Nwana, D. T. Ndumu
    Pages 1-26

  3. Artificial societies and psychological agents

    • S. N. K. Watt
    Pages 27-41

  4. Co-ordination in multi-agent systems

    • H. S. Nwana, L. Lee, N. R. Jennings
    Pages 42-58

  5. Software agent technologies

    • H. S. Nwana, M. Wooldridge
    Pages 59-78

  6. Information agents for the World Wide Web

    • N. J. Davies, R. Weeks, M. C. Revett
    Pages 79-99

  7. Multi-agent matchmaking

    • L. Foner, I. B. Crabtree
    Pages 100-115

  8. An application of social filtering to movie recommendation

    • D. Fisk
    Pages 116-131

  9. Agents of change in business process management

    • P. D. O'Brien, M. E. Wiegand
    Pages 132-145

  10. Agents, mobility and multimedia information

    • R. Titmuss, I. B. Crabtree, C. S. Winter
    Pages 146-159

  11. A real-life experiment in creating an agent marketplace

    • A. Chavez, D. Dreilinger, R. Guttman, P. Maes
    Pages 160-179

  12. The roles of fuzzy logic and soft computing in the conception, design and deployment of intelligent systems

    • L. A. Zadeh
    Pages 181-190

  13. An introduction to soft computing — A tool for building intelligent systems

    • B. Azvine, N. Azarmi, K. C. Tsui
    Pages 191-210

  14. Basic concepts of a fuzzy logic data browser with applications

    • J. F. Baldwin, T. P. Martin
    Pages 211-241

  15. Towards soft computing

    • E. H. Mamdani
    Pages 242-249

  16. The rise of machine intelligence

    • H. S. Nwana, N. Azarmi, R. Smith
    Pages 251-261

  17. Intelligent software systems

    • R. Smith, E. H. Mamdani
    Pages 262-275

  18. Machine intelligibility and the duality principle

    • S. Muggleton, D. Michie
    Pages 276-291

  19. Back Matter

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This carefully arranged book is mainly based on work done by the Intelligent Systems Research Group at BT Laboratories, essentially in cooperation with internationally leading scientists from outside BT. It opens with a detailed introduction surveying the area and putting the work presented in context. Conceptual issues surrounding intelligent agents and multi-agent systems are investigated and the practical and industrial applicability of this exciting new technology is demonstrated. One section is devoted to the rationale, philosophy, and techniques of the emerging area of soft computing. The final section outlines the broader context in dealing with machine intelligence in general and intelligent software systems in particular.

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