Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Approach (Hardcover)
暫譯: 多代理系統中的團隊合作:一種正式方法 (精裝版)

Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2010-07-13
  • 定價: $3,500
  • 售價: 9.5$3,325
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 244
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0470699884
  • ISBN-13: 9780470699881
  • 立即出貨 (庫存=1)

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商品描述

What makes teamwork tick?

Cooperation matters, in daily life and in complex applications. After all, many tasks need more than a single agent to be effectively performed. Therefore, teamwork rules!

Teams are social groups of agents dedicated to the fulfilment of particular persistent tasks. In modern multiagent environments, heterogeneous teams often consist of autonomous software agents, various types of robots and human beings.

Teamwork in Multi-agent Systems: A Formal Approach explains teamwork rules in terms of agents' attitudes and their complex interplay. It provides the first comprehensive logical theory, TeamLog, underpinning teamwork in dynamic environments. The authors justify design choices by showing TeamLog in action.

The book guides the reader through a fascinating discussion of issues essential for teamwork to be successful:

  • What is teamwork, and how can a logical view of it help in designing teams of agents?
  • What is the role of agents' awareness in an uncertain, dynamic environment?
  • How does collective intention constitute a team?
  • How are plan-based collective commitments related to team action?
  • How can one tune collective commitment to the team's organizational structure and its communication abilities?
  • What are the methodological underpinnings for teamwork in a dynamic environment?
  • How does a team and its attitudes adjust to changing circumstances?
  • How do collective intentions and collective commitments arise through dialogue?
  • What is the computational complexity of TeamLog?
  • How can one make TeamLog efficient in applications?

This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in computer science and artificial intelligence as well as for developers of multi-agent systems. Students and researchers in organizational science, in particular those investigating teamwork, will also find this book insightful.  Since the authors made an effort to introduce TeamLog as a conceptual model of teamwork, understanding most of the book requires solely a basic logical background.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

團隊合作的關鍵是什麼?

合作在日常生活和複雜應用中都很重要。畢竟,許多任務需要不止一個代理才能有效執行。因此,團隊合作至關重要!

團隊是專注於完成特定持續任務的社會代理群體。在現代的多代理環境中,異質團隊通常由自主軟體代理、各類型的機器人和人類組成。

多代理系統中的團隊合作:一種形式化的方法從代理的態度及其複雜的相互作用來解釋團隊合作的規則。它提供了第一個全面的邏輯理論,TeamLog,支撐動態環境中的團隊合作。作者通過展示 TeamLog 的實際應用來證明設計選擇的合理性。

本書引導讀者深入探討成功團隊合作所需的關鍵問題:

  • 什麼是團隊合作,邏輯視角如何幫助設計代理團隊?
  • 在不確定的動態環境中,代理的意識扮演什麼角色?
  • 集體意圖如何構成一個團隊?
  • 基於計劃的集體承諾與團隊行動有何關聯?
  • 如何調整集體承諾以符合團隊的組織結構及其溝通能力?
  • 在動態環境中,團隊合作的研究方法基礎是什麼?
  • 團隊及其態度如何適應變化的環境?
  • 集體意圖和集體承諾如何通過對話產生?
  • TeamLog 的計算複雜性是什麼?
  • 如何在應用中提高 TeamLog 的效率?

本書對於計算機科學和人工智慧的研究人員及研究生,以及多代理系統的開發者來說,是一個寶貴的資源。組織科學的學生和研究人員,特別是那些研究團隊合作的人,也會發現本書具有啟發性。由於作者努力將 TeamLog 介紹為團隊合作的概念模型,因此理解本書的大部分內容僅需具備基本的邏輯背景。