Download or read book Intelligent Agent Technology: Research And Development - Proceedings Of The 2nd Asia-pacific Conference On Iat written by Jeffrey Bradshaw and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an attempt to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art of intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportunities that it is or will be facing. The most important feature of the volume is that it emphasizes a multi-faceted, holistic view of this emerging technology, from its computational foundations — in terms of models, methodologies, and tools for developing a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems — to its practical impact on tackling real-world problems.