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Agent-Oriented Programming

From Prolog to Guarded Definite Clauses

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Matthew M. Huntbach

    1. Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

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  2. Graem A. Ringwood

    1. Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1630)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. The Art in Artificial Intelligence

    Pages 1-35

  3. Fifth Generation Architecture

    Pages 37-67

  4. Metamorphosis

    Pages 69-102

  5. Event Driven Condition Synchronization

    Pages 103-138

  6. Actors and Agents

    Pages 139-173

  7. Concurrent Search

    Pages 175-211

  8. Distributed Constraint Solving

    Pages 213-246

  9. Meta-interpretation

    Pages 247-278

  10. Partial Evaluation

    Pages 279-317

  11. Agents and Robots

    Pages 319-351

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 353-386
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book – it is a plaything. TL Peacock: Crochet Castle The paradigm presented in this book is proposed as an agent programming language. The book charts the evolution of the language from Prolog to intelligent agents. To a large extent, intelligent agents rose to prominence in the mid-1990s because of the World Wide Web and an ill-structured network of multimedia information. Age- oriented programming was a natural progression from object-oriented programming which C++ and more recently Java popularized. Another strand of influence came from a revival of interest in robotics [Brooks, 1991a; 1991b]. The quintessence of an agent is an intelligent, willing slave. Speculation in the area of artificial slaves is far more ancient than twentieth century science fiction. One documented example is found in Aristotle’s Politics written in the fourth century BC. Aristotle classifies the slave as “an animate article of property”. He suggests that slaves or subordinates might not be necessary if “each instrument could do its own work at command or by anticipation like the statues of Daedalus and the tripods of Hephaestus”. Reference to the legendary robots devised by these mythological technocrats, the former an artificer who made wings for Icarus and the latter a blacksmith god, testify that the concept of robot, if not the name, was ancient even in Aristotle’s time.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

    Matthew M. Huntbach, Graem A. Ringwood

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