| Collaboration Between Human and Artificial Societies: Coordination and Agent-Based Distributed Computing 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Padget, Julian A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540669302 ISBN-13: 9783540669302 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1999 Annotation: This book documents scientific work presented initially during two workshops held within the HCM network project VIM - a virtual multicomputer for symbolic applications. The revised full papers presented in the book have gone through a process of thorough post-workshop reviewing. They are organized in sections on languages and systems, agents and capabilities, and coordination and collaboration. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Client-server Computing - General - Medical - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
| Dewey: 004.36 |
| LCCN: 99088777 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The full title of the HCM network project behind this volume is VIM: A virtual multicomputer for symbolic applications. The three strands which bound the network together were parallel systems, advanced compilation techniques andarti?cialintelligence witha commonsubstrate in the programminglanguage Lisp. The initial aim of the project was to demonstrate how the combination of these three technologies could be used to build a virtual multicomputer -- an ephemeral, persistent machine of available heterogeneous computing resources -- for large scale symbolic applications . The system would support a virtual processor abstraction to distribute data and tasks across the multicomputer, the actual physical composition of which may change dynamically. Our practical objective was to assist in the prototyping of dynamic distributed symbolic app- cations in arti?cial intelligence using whatever resources are available (probably networked workstations), so that the developed program could also be run on more exotic hardware without reprogramming. What we had not foreseen at the outset of the project was how agents would unify the strands at the application level, as distinct from the system level o- lined above. It was as a result of the agent in?uence that we held two workshops in May and December 1997 with the title "Collaboration between human and arti?cial societies". The papers collected in this volume are a selection from presentations made at those two workshops. In each case the format consisted of a number of invited speakers plus presentations from the network partners. |