Springer Agent Technology

By: Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli

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Hardcover | 2 December 2005

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More and more, software systems involve autonomous and distributed software components that have to execute and interact in open and dynamic environments, such as in pervasive, autonomous, and mobile applications. The requirements with respect to dynamics, openness, scalability, and decentralization call for new approaches to software design and development, capable of supporting spontaneous configuration, tolerating partial failures, or arranging adaptive reorganization of the whole system.

Inspired by the behaviour of complex natural systems, scientists and engineers have started to adjust their mechanisms and techniques for self-organization and adaption to changing environments.

In line with these considerations, Mamei and Zambonelli propose an interaction model inspired by the way masses and particles in our universe move and self-organize according to contextual information represented by gravitational and electromagnetic fields. The key idea is to have the components' actions driven by computational force fields, generated by the components themselves or by some infrastructures, and propagated across the environment. Together with its supporting middleware infrastructure - available with additional information under http://www.agentgroup.unimore.it - this model can serve as the basis for a general purpose and widely applicable approach for the design and development of adaptive distributed applications.

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"This volume is an excellent summary of the state of research to date; a concise guide for new adopters of field-based coordination; and a stimulating survey of potential research areas. It will be valuable both as a textbook for advanced undergraduate courses in multiagent systems and as a reference for active researchers in the field." (H. Van Dyke Parunak, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2011)

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Engineering & Technology Electronics & Communications Engineering Electronics Engineering Computer Networking & Communications Computer Programming & Software Development Software Engineering Computer Hardware Network Hardware

Introduction	p. 1
Upcoming information technology scenarios	p. 9
The role of coordination and the inadequacy of current approaches	p. 25
Field-based coordination	p. 45
Co-fields and motion coordination	p. 75
Commercial off-the-shelf implementations	p. 109
Tuples on the air (TOTA)	p. 119
Content-based information access and coordination	p. 159
Self-assembly in mobile and modular robots	p. 175
The cloak of invisibility	p. 207
Conclusions	p. 223
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