Titlebook: Agent Technology; Foundations, Applica Nicholas R. Jennings,Michael J. Wooldridge Book 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 Workflow

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Software Technologies for Building Agent Based Systems in Telecommunication NetworksTo allow multiple corporations to provide more and more sophisticated information and electronic commerce services to many customers, telecommunication operators build infrastructure integrating these services with telecommunication networks. This chapter presents some software technologies used for this purpose.

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Adding Value with Intelligent Agents in Financial ServicesCompanies working in the financial service industry are almost pure information factories. The information produced is their product. Thus, we can say that adding value to the business means adding information.

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A Brief Introduction to Software Agent Technologyinclude workflow management, telecommunications network management, air traffic control, business process re-engineering, data mining, information retrieval/management, electronic commerce, education, personal digital assistants (PDAs), e-mail filtering, digital libraries, command and control, smart

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Agent Software for Near-Term Success in Distributed Applicationslties associated with distributed, heterogeneous computing applications are becoming increasingly apparent. Applications such as distributed information systems and electronic commerce are placing new demands on software infrastructures.

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Practical Design of Intelligent Agent Systemsith artificial intelligence, and are standoffish when hearing about so-called ‘intelligent agents.’ Yet several market studies (Janca, 1996) include interviews with successful adopters. These early adopters do have to live with constraints, but universally report that the agent systems save them tim

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Brokering the Info-Underworldrom and within the world’s networks: business, entertainment, human activities, organizational activities; even activities of the world’s communication and information networks themselves (meta-information). There appear to be two main families of information services evolving: (i) information tradi

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Personal Agents: A Walk on the Client SideDAs, PCs, set-top boxes, etc.) play a key role. For example, PDAs are now seen as communication tools and information access terminals as well as personal data repositories. Sharp’s Zaurus PDA is already used in Japan to publish the electronic edition of the . newspaper. The vast number and diversit

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Rational Software Agents: From Theory to Practiceervice, medical treatment, telecommunications, and so on. These systems often need to carry out quite complex tasks, over some period of time, in a world subject to change and uncertainty. The very scale of an application often prevents complete specification, and even if this could be accomplished,

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Co-operating Agents: Concepts and Applicationsiting both similarities and divergences. Our approach to this area stems from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). The central problem underlying the design of agent based systems from a DAI point of view is characterized by the following question: