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Foundations of Rational Agency

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Editors:
  1. Michael Wooldridge

    1. Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

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  2. Anand Rao

    1. Mitchell Madison Group, Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: Applied Logic Series (APLS, volume 14)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

    Michael Wooldridge

  • Mitchell Madison Group, Melbourne, Australia

    Anand Rao

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