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    An Examination of Some Metaphorical Contexts for Biologically Motivated Computing (1994)
    Oxford : Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
    The British journal for the philosophy of science. 45:2 (1994:June) 505 
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    ISSN: 0007-0882
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Philosophy
    URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4064-1994-045-02-000008
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    Towards Desktop Personal Travel Agents (1998)
    Springer
    BT technology journal 16 (1998), S. 69-78 
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    ISSN: 1573-1995
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
    Notes: Abstract The growth of the World Wide Web has invested personal computer users with direct access to a wealth of information sources and services — for example, one can now check stock market share prices, book flight tickets or even do grocery shopping over the Internet. However, while the Internet enables direct access to various information sources and services, effectively integrating these services to provide a total solution to a complex task, such as arranging a transatlantic trip itinerary, remains a challenging task that requires significant human intervention. This paper discusses some of the challenges involved in providing computer-based integrated personalised travel services through a medium such as the Internet. Further, a software agent solution to this problem is presented, and an agent-based travel assistant demonstrator described, which was developed using the ZEUS collaborative agent building tool-kit.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009625830887
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    Nature-Inspired Novel and Radical Computing (2000)
    Springer
    BT technology journal 18 (2000), S. 73-75 
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    ISSN: 1573-1995
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
    Notes: Abstract The traditional 'Von Neumann' computing architecture is serial and digital. This way of organising things has proved to be very powerful and has allowed spectacular progress in computation, riding on the back of spectacular increases in speed of the central processor. Though the Von Neumann model has outstripped futurologists' dreams in its favoured domains, it has failed to meet expectations in others. Highly parallel, asynchronous, distributed problems highlight its weaknesses. Such complexity is inevitable in today's highly connected networks and dynamic environments with information asymmetries and delays, and myriad interactions among components. There are two ways to address the shortcomings in difficult but important problem domains like these. One is to increase the speed of traditional computing. This is being done, with year-on-year increases in hardware and software performance. The second is to seek new computational architectures which address problems more efficiently. This is also an active research area, and it is the subject of this paper. We are drawing inspirations from nature to deal with the twin challenges of parallel asynchronous problem domains and network system complexity that characterise the information age.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026525905077
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    The ZEUS Agent Building Tool-kit (1998)
    Springer
    BT technology journal 16 (1998), S. 60-68 
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    ISSN: 1573-1995
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
    Notes: Abstract There is an emerging desire among agent researchers to move away from developing point solutions to point problems in favour of developing methodologies and tool-kits for building distributed multi-agent systems. This philosophy has led to the development of the ZEUS agent building tool-kit, which facilitates the engineering of collaborative agent applications through the provision of a library of agent-level components and an environment to support the agent building process. The ZEUS tool-kit is a synthesis of established agent technologies with some novel solutions that provide an integrated environment for rapid software engineering of collaborative agent applications.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009673714049
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    The Stability, Scalability and Performance of Multi-agent Systems (1998)
    Springer
    BT technology journal 16 (1998), S. 94-103 
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    ISSN: 1573-1995
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
    Notes: Abstract Much has been published on the functional properties of multi-agent systems (MASs) including their co-ordination rationality and knowledge modelling. However, an important research area which has so far received only scant attention covers the non-functional properties of MASs which include performance, scalability and stability issues — clearly thes become increasingly important as the MAS field matures, and as more practical MASs become operational. An understanding of how to evaluate and assess such non-functional properties, and hence how to improve on them by altering the underlying MAS design, is gradually emerging as a pressing concern. This paper presents preliminary work to address such concerns; particularly, it investigates the performance and scalability of a multi-agent model we have developed. Firstly, this paper defines performance, scalability and stability within the context of multi-agent applications. Following, we describe a multi-agent model that we later use to illustrate our first attempts at evolving a procedure for analysing such non-functional properties of MASs. Next, we report on our initial attempts to investigate the performance and scalability of the multi-agent model. Finally, the significance of these results in particular and of such investigations in general is discussed.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009686016775
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