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Free Download Rogue Agent: The Troubled Life and Dangerous Times of Robert Bruce Lockhart by James Crossland
English | September 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1783968044 | 320 pages | PDF | 6.12 Mb
The thrilling biography of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Britain’s ‘Agent’ in Moscow

Free Download Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics By Juan M. Novas, Jan Van Belle, Bart Saint Germain, Paul Valckenaers (auth.), Theodor Borangiu, Andre Thomas, Damien Trentesaux (eds.)
2013 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 3642358519 | PDF | 24 MB
The book covers four research domains representing a trend for modern manufacturing control: Holonic and Multi-agent technologies for industrial systems; Intelligent Product and Product-driven Automation; Service Orientation of Enterprise’s strategic and technical processes; and Distributed Intelligent Automation Systems. These evolution lines have in common concepts related to service orientation derived from the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. The service-oriented multi-agent systems approach discussed in the book is characterized by the use of a set of distributed autonomous and cooperative agents, embedded in smart components that use the SOA principles, being oriented by offer and request of services, in order to fulfil production systems and value chain goals.A new integrated vision combining emergent technologies is offered, to create control structures with distributed intelligence supporting the vertical and horizontal enterprise integration and running in truly distributed and global working environments. The service value creation model at enterprise level consists into using Service Component Architectures for business process applications, based on entities which handle services. In this componentization view, a service is a piece of software encapsulating the business/control logic or resource functionality of an entity that exhibits an individual competence and responds to a specific request to fulfil a local (product) or global (batch) objective.The service value creation model at enterprise level consists into using Service Component Architectures for business process applications, based on entities which handle services. In this componentization view, a service is a piece of software encapsulating the business/control logic or resource functionality of an entity that exhibits an individual competence and responds to a specific request to fulfil a local (product) or global (batch) objective.

Free Download Kate McClanaghan, "How To Get An Agent for Acting & Voice Over"
English | ASIN : B00GZYL90U | 2013 | 65 pages | EPUB | 1212 KB
Far too often the primary obstacle standing in the way of working with any regularity is whether or not you’ve managed to get an agent. Especially an agent who has access to the work you’re best suited to land for voice overs and various acting jobs.

Free Download Quan Bai, Naoki Fukuta, "Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems"
English | 2010 | pages: 451 | ISBN: 3642160972, 3642265529 | PDF | 10,5 mb
Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an exciting, emerging paradigm expected to play a key role in many society-changing practices. The International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) is a leading scientific conference for research on intelligent agent systems and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all over the world. PRIMA’09 was the 12th in the series of PRIMA conferences and was held in Nagoya, Japan. Beside a single-track main conference, PRIMA’09 also included a number of workshops which were designed to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and exchange the latest developments at the MAS frontier. This book constitutes the post-proceedings of workshops under PRIMA’09. Readers will be able to explore a diverse range of topics and detailed discussions related to a number of important themes in our ever changing world. This collection plays an important role in bridging the gap between MAS theory and practice. It emphasizes the importance of MAS in the research and development of smart power grid systems, decision support systems, optimization and analysis systems for road traffic and markets, environmental monitoring and simulation, and in many other real-world applications and publicizes and extends MAS technology to many domains in this fast moving information age.

Free Download Communication and Cooperation in Agent Systems: A Pragmatic Theory By Afsaneh Haddadi (eds.)
1995 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 3540498761 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is devoted to the design and analysis of techniques enabling intelligent and dynamic cooperation and communication among agents in a distributed environment. A flexible theoretical formalism is developed in detail and it is demonstrated how this approach can be used for the design of agent architectures in practice. The formal part of this work is based on a variant of the BDI logic introduced by Georgeff and Rao. This book, for the first time, outlines this formalism in some depth. The most important practical benefit provided is the concept of cooperation protocols allowing the representation of various methods of cooperation and possible patterns of dialogue.

Free Download Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne, Britain’s Forgotten Wartime Heroine by Bernard O’Connor
English | August 15, 2012 | ISBN: 1445608383 | 264 pages | PDF | 5.12 Mb
The life and poignant death of one of Britain’s bravest women. In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or relatives, a council burial was arranged. A police search of her belongings found wartime French currency, and wartime medals. Further investigation revealed that she was one of 40 women sent into France by the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, Churchill’s top secret wartime ‘spook’ organisation. Her story and her poignant death as a recluse became an international media sensation. Being fluent in French Eileen was identified early in the war by the SOE as a potential agent. After spending time as a wireless operator picking up transmissions from agents in the field and decoding them, she was chosen to be parachuted into occupied France, underwent paramilitary training and was assigned the codename ‘ROSE’. After working in dangerous conditions in Paris for several months, she was captured, interrogated and tortured. Keeping to her story that she was an unwitting French girl caught up in resistance work, she was transferred to a series of concentration camps in Germany. She miraculously escaped from a concentration camp in early 1945. Eileen had difficulty adjusting to living in post-war Britain, suffered from a nervous breakdown and eventually became a recluse. Includes 40 illustrations, 10 in colour.

Free Download Nicolaos Protogeros, "Agent and Web Service Technologies in Virtual Enterprises"
English | 2007 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 1599046482 | PDF | 4,9 mb
This title explores research on new techniques for the virtual enterprise operation, and has opened up new ideas on the design principles and operation approaches in order to maximize benefits and overcome limitations.

Free Download Understanding Agent Systems By Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck (auth.)
2004 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 3642073824 | PDF | 5 MB
Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extend ing the work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5,54,79,80, 108-110,116,118-120,122]. In this second edition, we have revised, updated and corrected the existing text and added three new chapters. These chapters provide a broader coverage of the fie1d of agents, and show in more detail how the specific framework described can be used to examine other areas. In Chapter 6, we use the concepts of discovery to apply the framework to autonomous interaction in multi agent systems; in Chapter 10 we use it for considering normative agents and sys tems; and in Chapter 11 we describe work on an implementation and development environment. As a course text, the book can be considered in different parts, as follows. – Chapter I and Chapter 2 offer a basic introduction to agents and their core com ponents. – Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 cover relationships between agents and basic notions of cooperation for multi-agent systems. – Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 introduce sociological agents, which are needed for rea soning and planning, and their use in reasoning about communication and inter action. – Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 each cover different application areas relating to different aspects, inc1uding coordination (through the contract net), agent architecture (through AgentSpeak(L), social dependence networks, and normative systems.

Free Download Multi-Agent for Mass User Support: International Workshop, MAMUS 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, August 10, 2003, Revised and Invited Papers By Koichi Kurumatani (auth.), Koichi Kurumatani, Shu-Heng Chen, Azuma Ohuchi (eds.)
2004 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 3540219404 | PDF | 4 MB
This book originates from the IJCAI 2003 International Workshop on Multi-Agents for Mass User Support, MAMUS 2003, held in Acapulco, Mexico in August 2003. Besides revised selected workshop papers, the volume editors invited contributions by leading researchers in order to complete coverage of important aspects.The papers address major current issues of multi-agent technology and its applications to support mass users and society more generally by using social coordination mechanisms. The papers are organized into topical sections on the theoretical background, resource allocation algorithms, mass user support in traffic systems, game theoretic analysis, and architectures for social coordination mechanisms.

Free Download Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing: Second International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-24, 2005. Proceedings By Kenwood H. Hall, Raymond J. Staron, Pavel Vrba (auth.), Vladimír Mařík, Robert William Brennan, Michal Pěchouček (eds.)
2005 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 3540282378 | PDF | 6 MB
The challenge faced in today’s manufacturing and business environments is the question of how to satisfy increasingly stringent customer requirements while managing growing system complexity. For example, customers expect high-quality, customizable, low-cost products that can be delivered quickly. The systems that deliver these expectations are by nature distributed, concurrent, and stochastic, and, as a result, increasingly difficult to manage. Unfortunately, the traditional hierarchical, strictly centralized approach to control used in these domains is characteristically inflexible, fragile, and difficult to maintain. These shortcomings have led to the development of a new class of manufacturing and supply-chain decision-making approaches in recent years. Solutions based on these approaches usually explore a set of highly distributed decision-making units that are capable of autonomous operations while cooperating interactively to resolve larger problems. The units, referred to as agents in classical computer science and software engineering, or holons if physically integrated with the manufacturing hardware, interact by exchanging information. These units are motivated by arriving at local solutions as well as collaborating and sharing resources and goals in solving the overall problem in question collectively.