The authors present a systematic development of the concurrent object-oriented agent programming language Guarded Definite Clauses (GDC). In contrast to other languages used in agent programming, like Java, Telescript, and Agent-TCL, this language is derived from the artificial intelligence programming tradition and emphasizes AI applications. The first part of the book is devoted to the principled evolution of the paradigm GDC; during the course of this evolution, the reader can also learn a lot about the history and the dramatically changing fortune, booms, and busts, of AI. In the second part, the paradigm is evaluated for application in various fields including parallel distributed search, distributed constraint solving, meta-interpretation, partial evaluation, and robotics and multi-agent systems. The book is written for students and professionals in agent programming or in AI programming in general.
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A Classic 'Logic-based' AI programming book!,
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This review is from: Agent-Oriented Programming: From Prolog to Guarded Definite Clauses (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) (Paperback)
Ringwood and Huntbach were my professors in graduate school. They taught us a course titled Multi Agent Systems. Much of the areas covered in those lectures find their way in this superb account on AI programming.The first few chapters are accessible to readers without a strong AI background. The material gets more involving as we go through the book. Interestingly, the book develops the idea of 'agent-oriented' programming chronologically from the the days preceeding the Fifth generation project to present day multi-agent technologies. I would highly recommend the book to all AI students, researchers and practitioners.
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To better distinguish between historical precedent and rational argument, this first chapter gives an account of some of the intellectual issues of AI. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
definite clause languages, lowest cost link, unbound channel, actor fusion, metacircular interpreter, metalevel systems, become send, literal elimination, minimal spanning forest, permanent choice, speculative parallelism, primitive threads, concurrent logic languages, layered streams, speculative computation, search actors, fair merge, linking edges, partial evaluation, parallel logic programming, numbered vertices, choose actors, concurrent logic programming, condition synchronization, originating process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fifth Generation, Logic Theorist, Concurrent Prolog, Principia Mathematica, Driven Producer, Shastric Sanskrit, Advice Taker, Dartmouth College, Deep Blue, Fine Art, Game of Life, Herbrand's Property New!
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To better distinguish between historical precedent and rational argument, this first chapter gives an account of some of the intellectual issues of AI. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
definite clause languages, lowest cost link, unbound channel, actor fusion, metacircular interpreter, metalevel systems, become send, literal elimination, minimal spanning forest, permanent choice, speculative parallelism, primitive threads, concurrent logic languages, layered streams, speculative computation, search actors, fair merge, linking edges, partial evaluation, parallel logic programming, numbered vertices, choose actors, concurrent logic programming, condition synchronization, originating process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fifth Generation, Logic Theorist, Concurrent Prolog, Principia Mathematica, Driven Producer, Shastric Sanskrit, Advice Taker, Dartmouth College, Deep Blue, Fine Art, Game of Life, Herbrand's Property New!
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- Machine Intelligence by B. Meltzer on 5 pages
- Semantic Information Processing by Marvin L. Minsky on 4 pages
- Communicating Sequential Processes (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science) by C.A.R. Hoare in Front Matter, page 82, and Back Matter
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on page 19, page 30, and Back Matter
- Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition) by Noam Chomsky on page 14, and Back Matter
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