Foundations of Rational Agency

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Foundations of Rational Agency

   • Anand S. Rao, Michael Wooldridge

   Pages 1-10

3. Rationality and Intelligence

   • Stuart Russell

   Pages 11-33

4. What Sort of Architecture is Required for a Human-Like Agent?

   • Aaron Sloman

   Pages 35-52

5. Planning Agents

   • John L. Pollock

   Pages 53-79

6. Toward Rational Interactions in Multiagent Domains

   • Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz

   Pages 81-104

7. Know-How

   • Munindar P. Singh

   Pages 105-132

8. An Integrated Modal Approach to Rational Agents

   • Wiebe van der Hoek, Bernd van Linder, John-Jules Ch. Meyer

   Pages 133-167

9. Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents

   • David R. Traum

   Pages 169-201

10. Communication among Rational Agents

    • Afsaneh Haddadi

    Pages 203-226

11. The Evolution of Sharedplans

    • Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus

    Pages 227-262

12. A Survey of Agent-Oriented Programming

    • S. Rebecca Thomas

    Pages 263-274

13. A Situation Calculus Approach to Modeling and Programming Agents

    • Yves Lespérance, Hector J. Levesque, Raymond Reiter

    Pages 275-299

14. Back Matter

    Pages 301-301

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Over the past decade, rational agency has come to be recognised as a central theme in artificial intelligence. Drawing upon research on rational action and agency in philosophy, logic, game theory, decision theory, and the philosophy of language, this volume represents an advanced, comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of the field of rational agency as it stands today. It covers the philosophical foundations of rational agency, logical and decision-theoretic approaches to rational agency, multi-agent aspects of rational agency (including speech acts, joint plans, and cooperation protocols), and, finally, describes a number of approaches to programming rational agents. Although written from the standpoint of artificial intelligence, this interdisciplinary text will be of interest to researchers in logic, mainstream computer science, the philosophy of rational action and agency, and economics.

• Bertrand Russell
• artificial intelligence
• communication
• game theory
• intelligence
• language
• logic
• philosophy of language
• programming

• Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

  Michael Wooldridge

• Mitchell Madison Group, Melbourne, Australia

  Anand Rao

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