Artificial Intelligence - Agents and Environments [math]

Cover......Page 1
Artificial Intelligence: Agents and Environments......Page 2
©......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 7
1.1 What is ”Artificial Intelligence”?......Page 13
1.2 Paths to Artificial Intelligence......Page 14
1.3 Objections to Artificial Intelligence......Page 18
1.4 Conceptual Metaphor, Analogy and Thought Experiments......Page 26
1.5 Design Principles for Autonomous Agents......Page 29
1.6 Summary and Discussion......Page 31
2.1 What is an Agent?......Page 32
2.2 Agent-oriented Design Versus Object-oriented Design......Page 37
2.3 A Taxonomy of Autonomous Agents......Page 40
2.4 Desirable Properties of Agents......Page 44
2.5 What is an Environment?......Page 47
2.6 Environments as n-dimensional spaces......Page 49
2.7 Virtual Environments......Page 53
2.8 How can we develop and test an Artificial Intelligence system?......Page 57
3.1 Architectures and Frameworks for Agents and Environments......Page 59
3.2 Standards for Agent-based Technologies......Page 60
3.3 Agent-Oriented Programming Languages......Page 61
3.4 Agent Directed Simulation in NetLogo......Page 65
3.5 The NetLogo development environment......Page 69
3.6 Agents and Environments in NetLogo......Page 72
3.7 Drawing Mazes using Patch Agents in NetLogo......Page 79
3.8 Summary......Page 84
4.1 Movement and Motion......Page 86
4.2 Movement of Turtle Agents in NetLogo......Page 87
4.3 Behaviour and Decision-making in terms of movement......Page 89
4.4 Drawing FSMs and Decision Trees using Link Agents in NetLogo......Page 90
4.5 Computer Animation......Page 99
4.6 Animated Mapping and Simulation......Page 109
4.7 Summary......Page 113
5.1 Our body and our senses......Page 114
5.2 Several Features of Autonomous Agents......Page 116
5.3 Adding Sensing Capabilities to Turtle Agents in NetLogo......Page 118
5.4 Performing tasks reactively without cognition......Page 132
5.5 Embodied, Situated Cognition......Page 143
References......Page 147