TY - BOOK ID - 5453164 TI - Computational intelligence for agent-based systems AU - Loia, Vincenzo AU - Lee, R. S. T. PY - 2007 VL - 72 SN - 9783540731757 354073175X 9786610960002 1280960000 3540731776 PB - Berlin, Germany ; New York, New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Intelligent agents (Computer software) KW - Computational intelligence KW - Agents intelligents (logiciels) KW - Intelligence informatique KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Intelligent agents (Computer software). KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Civil Engineering KW - Applied Mathematics KW - Computer Science KW - Agents, Autonomous (Computer software) KW - Agents, Cognitive (Computer software) KW - Agents, Intelligent (Computer software) KW - Assistants, Cognitive (Computer software) KW - Assistants, Intelligent software KW - Autonomous agents (Computer software) KW - Cognitive agents (Computer software) KW - Cognitive assistants (Computer software) KW - IAs (Computer software) KW - Intelligent agent software KW - Intelligent software agents KW - Intelligent software assistants KW - Software agents (Computer software) KW - Special agents (Computer software) KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Engineering. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Applied mathematics. KW - Engineering mathematics. KW - Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Engineering KW - Engineering analysis KW - Mathematical analysis KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Mathematics KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - Computer programs KW - Mathematical and Computational Engineering. KW - Artificial Intelligence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5453164 AB - In these last years the digital technology explosion has spawned so many new lifestyle models that the boundaries between "real" and "digital" are fiercely debated. This scenario has deeply changed the viewpoint about computer applications: computers become smaller, cheapest and hugely distributed in wired or unwired networks, applications become so flexible and intelligent as to tailor its communication facilities in order to increase the usability of the system. Such data-intensive, unstructured spaces featured by minimal or no centralized control flow, present a challenge for traditional methods of analysis, design and integration of advanced, distributed and intelligent computer systems. Within this challenge, an important role is played by two important research areas : Fuzzy Technology, thanks to its ability to exploit the tolerance for imprecision to achieve tractability and Agent Technology, thanks to its nature to employ agent-wise communities to carry out complex goals by means of smart interaction, cooperation, and pro-activeness. Computational Intelligence inside Agents is a novel and extremely helpful approach to support the designer of smart applications that treat unknown or ill-defined situations so to better handle knowledge representation and reasoning under these assumptions. We hope this volume represents a new step on intelligent system management roadmap. ER -