Constructing Intelligent Agents with Java

by Jennifer Bigus and Joseph P. Bigus

Intelligent Agents with Java(TM) A Programmer's Guide to Smarter Applications Add Artificial Intelligence to your Java applications * Learn to design and implement agent-based reasoning, modeling, and learning * Build your own personal assistants, Web agents, e-commerce agents, and multiagent systems. Learn how to create intelligent agents that can automate, mediate, and administer basic business functions. Java makes it easier than ever for programmers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471191353
• ISBN13: 9780471191353
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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good introduction to implementing elements of agents in Java

This book provides a good introductory treatment of intelligent agents and their implementation in Java. The book provides details on the essential components of classical AI such as search, representation, reasoning, and learning, and Java code with an example. Agent implementation ideas are provided via a generic agent written in Java, and three examples displaying different extents of agency. Some figures in the latter part of the book dealing with agents, providing representations of the essentials of the Java code for the generic agent, and the three examples will greatly help the reader. The book will help greatly in getting you started in the area of implementing intelligent agents, if you have a reasonable preparation in Java.

well written book but software is flawed

The book is extremely well written and it's audience is for the business application developer. Unfortunately, some of the software doesn't work. The RulesApplet was written in Java JDK 1.0.2 but the JDK 1.1.x version is required. Consequently, the applet won't run at all. I am only halfway through and haven't tested all of the other software, but there are no patches on the publisher's web site and the documentation states that the publisher offers no support for the software.