This book is the first in a series on Artificial Intelligence. It provides an introduction to the topic with an emphasis on the use of agent-oriented design. Topics include agents, environments, agent movement, and agent embodiment. It also provides an introduction to programming in NetLogo. Accompanying the book is a series of exercises and NetLogo models (with source code and documentation) which can be run directly from an applet or downloaded.
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- Introduction
- What is ”Artificial Intelligence”?
- Paths to Artificial Intelligence
- Objections to Artificial Intelligence
- Conceptual Metaphor, Analogy and Thought Experiments
- Design Principles for Autonomous Agents
- Summary and Discussion
- Agents and Environments
- What is an Agent?
- Agent-oriented Design Versus Object-oriented Design
- A Taxonomy of Autonomous Agents
- Desirable Properties of Agents
- What is an Environment?
- Environments as n-dimensional spaces
- Virtual Environments
- How can we develop and test an Artificial Intelligence system?
- Summary and Discussion
- Frameworks for Agents and Environments
- Architectures and Frameworks for Agents and Environments
- Standards for Agent-based Technologies
- Agent-Oriented Programming Languages
- Agent Directed Simulation in NetLogo
- The NetLogo development environment
- Agents and Environments in NetLogo
- Drawing Mazes using Patch Agents in NetLogo
- Summary
- Movement
- Movement and Motion
- Movement of Turtle Agents in NetLogo
- Behaviour and Decision-making in terms of movement
- Drawing FSMs and Decision Trees using Link Agents in NetLogo
- Computer Animation
- Animated Mapping and Simulation
- Summary
- Embodiment
- Our body and our senses
- Several Features of Autonomous Agents
- Adding Sensing Capabilities to Turtle Agents in NetLogo
- Performing tasks reactively without cognition
- Embodied, Situated Cognition
- Summary and Discussion
- References
Very nice book.