Discover the latest developments and issues in multi-agent systems by exploring their applications in various domains such as electronic markets, e-tourism, ambience intelligence, and complex system analysis. The book is written by two researchers with hands-on experience in technology transfer. With their practical focus, they help you see how agent technology can be applied in many new services and environments.
Barcelona ist das kulturelle Zentrums Spanien, beliebtes Touristenziel und im Sommer eine der meistfrequentierten Städte der Welt. Barcelonas Architektur hat weit mehr zu bieten als die altbekannte Architektur Gaudìs. In den letzten Jahren haben immer mehr international renommierte Architekten wie Norman Foster, Frank O'Ghery und viele mehr ihre Spuren in der Stadt hinterlassen. Dieses Buch stellt die neuesten und innovativsten Architekturprojekte Barcelonas vor. Sowohl öffentliche Gebäude, Hotels, Museen und Restaurants, wie auch private Wohnräume werden in Kapiteln vorgestellt. Soweit vorhanden geben Baupläne einen zusätzlichen Einblick. Am Buchende befindet sich ein Index mit Kontaktinformationen zu den vorgestellten Architekten.
Agent Cities [4] is an ambitious project whose main aim is the construction of a worldwide, publicly accessible network of agent-based FIPA platforms!. In March 2003 there are around 50 active platforms. Each of them supports agents that offer services similar to those that can be found in a real city (facilities, amenities, attractions, information and commercial services). It is expected that, in the near future, it will be possible to implement intelligent complex compound services (e. g. agents that are able to help a user to plan a weekend away, including tasks such as booking air tickets, selecting and booking a room in an appropriate hotel, buying tickets for the theatre and reserving a table in a restaurant that is near the theatre and offers the user's favourite meal). The main aim of our work was to develop a set of agents that could offer to the citizens and visitors of a city not the usual leisure-oriented services but health-care related services. This interest is related with previous work that our research group had done in the last years in the application of AI techniques (especially agent-based technology) to the medical domain (see e. g. [6]). Therefore, we decided to design and implement a multi-agent system with the following features: • The user may request information about all the medical centres available in a particular geographical area.