Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Approach (Hardcover)

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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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)

「是什麼讓團隊合作如此順利?」
合作在日常生活和複雜應用中都非常重要。畢竟,許多任務需要不止一個人才能有效地完成。因此,團隊合作至關重要!
團隊是一群致力於完成特定持久任務的社會群體。在現代多智能體環境中,異質團隊通常由自主軟體智能體、各種類型的機器人和人類組成。
《多智能體系統中的團隊合作:一種形式化方法》以智能體的態度和它們之間的複雜互動來解釋團隊合作規則。它提供了第一個全面的邏輯理論TeamLog,為動態環境中的團隊合作提供基礎。作者通過展示TeamLog的實際應用來證明設計選擇的合理性。
本書引導讀者進入一個引人入勝的討論,探討團隊合作成功所必需的重要問題:
- 什麼是團隊合作,以及邏輯觀點如何幫助設計智能體團隊?
- 在不確定、動態的環境中,智能體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適應團隊的組織結構和溝通能力?
- 在動態環境中,團隊合作的方法論基礎是什麼?
- 團隊及其態度如何適應變化的情況?
- 集體意圖和集體承諾如何通過對話產生?
- TeamLog的計算複雜性是多少?
- 如何使TeamLog在應用中更高效?
本書對於計算機科學和人工智能的研究人員和研究生以及多智能體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,也會發現本書具有洞察力。由於作者努力將TeamLog介紹為團隊合作的概念模型,因此理解本書大部分內容只需要基本的邏輯背景知識即可。