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Agents as objects with knowledge base state /Nikolaos Skarmeas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Imperial College Press ; (c)1999.; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific [distributor], (c)1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848160668
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QA76 .A346 1999
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Contents:
chapter 2. The building blocks -- chapter 3. April++: adding objects to April -- chapter 4. AprilQ: The database extension -- chapter 5. April++: objects with knowledge base state -- chapter 6. The implementation of April++ -- chapter 7. Component based agent construction -- chapter 8. An agent for multi-service network management -- chapter 9. Epilogue.
Subject: Advances in computer technology in general and computer networks in particular have significantly affected the requirements of modern applications, where the need to operate in decentralised environments is of primary importance. The conceptual models of the applications are also becoming complex and semantically rich. A promising technology towards the design and development of systems of such domains is agent based systems. Agents, having a knowledge component, act and interact with other agents and information sources in order to achieve some goals. Platforms intended for supporting the development of such systems should offer a number of features, including communication, concurrency, mobility, high level data structures, object orientation et cetera This book describes the design and implementation of such a language platform called April++ and its use on a number of applications. Methodologically, in designing and implementing the language, a layered approach has been adopted. April++ has been developed as a series of macro defined layers on top of the relatively primitive features of a pre-existing language called April. On top of April++, an agent layer has been built (as a set of pre-defined classes) for constructing agent based systems. This layer has been customised for specific application domains considered. This includes a mobile agent application, a distributed database application and a network management one.
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Advances in computer technology in general and computer networks in particular have significantly affected the requirements of modern applications, where the need to operate in decentralised environments is of primary importance. The conceptual models of the applications are also becoming complex and semantically rich. A promising technology towards the design and development of systems of such domains is agent based systems. Agents, having a knowledge component, act and interact with other agents and information sources in order to achieve some goals. Platforms intended for supporting the development of such systems should offer a number of features, including communication, concurrency, mobility, high level data structures, object orientation et cetera This book describes the design and implementation of such a language platform called April++ and its use on a number of applications. Methodologically, in designing and implementing the language, a layered approach has been adopted. April++ has been developed as a series of macro defined layers on top of the relatively primitive features of a pre-existing language called April. On top of April++, an agent layer has been built (as a set of pre-defined classes) for constructing agent based systems. This layer has been customised for specific application domains considered. This includes a mobile agent application, a distributed database application and a network management one.

Ch. 1. Background material -- chapter 2. The building blocks -- chapter 3. April++: adding objects to April -- chapter 4. AprilQ: The database extension -- chapter 5. April++: objects with knowledge base state -- chapter 6. The implementation of April++ -- chapter 7. Component based agent construction -- chapter 8. An agent for multi-service network management -- chapter 9. Epilogue.

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