Foundations of Rational Agency

Over the past decade, rational agency has come to be recognised as a central theme in artificial intelligence. Drawing upon research on rational action and agency in philosophy, logic, game theory, decision theory, and the philosophy of language, this volume represents an advanced, comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of the field of rational agency as it stands today. It covers the philosophical foundations of rational agency, logical and decision-theoretic approaches to rational agency, multi-agent aspects of rational agency (including speech acts, joint plans, and cooperation protocols), and, finally, describes a number of approaches to programming rational agents. Although written from the standpoint of artificial intelligence, this interdisciplinary text will be of interest to researchers in logic, mainstream computer science, the philosophy of rational action and agency, and economics.

Autorentext
Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, UK. He obtained his PhD in 1992 for work in the theory of multiagent systems and has, since then, been active in multiagent systems research.

Inhalt
Foundations of Rational Agency.- Rationality and Intelligence.- What Sort of Architecture is Required for a Human-like Agent?.- Planning Agents.- Toward Rational Interactions in Multiagent Domains.- Know-How.- An Integrated Modal Approach to Rational Agents.- Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents.- Communication among Rational Agents.- The Evolution of SharedPlans.- A Survey of Agent-Oriented Programming.- A Situation Calculus Approach to Modeling and Programming Agents.