Transactional Agents

Towards a Robust Multi-Agent System
2001
ISBN: 978-3-540-43046-9
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 2249, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The term “agent” is one of those catchwords that mean widely differing things to different people. To telecommunications people it is little more than a mobile piece of code that may be executed at any place. At the other extreme, AI people often associate with agents human-like traits such as social behavior. In between, software people view agents as fairly self-contained pieces of software that, at the low end, pretty much act like objects and, at the high end, more or less auto- mously decide when and how to react to stimuli or proactively initiate effects that can be observed from their environment. Software agents are particularly important when it comes to distributed en- ronments. There, much of the communication takes place asynchronously, that is the sequence of events cannot be planned ahead in all detail. Instead, agents are given rules as to how to interpret the current situation and, given a common goal, so that they adjust their response accordingly.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nagi, Khaled

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Netzwerk-Hardware
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Internet, E-Mail, VoIP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Application Scenario.- Overview of Agent Technology.- Overview of Transaction Processing.- Proposed Approach: Transactional Agents.- The Agent Transaction Model.- Robustness Guaranteeing Mechanisms.- Interacting with the Execution Agent.- Simulation Study.- Simulation Results.- Summary and Future Work.