Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional Developer's Guide, 2/e

An essential guide to intelligent agent technologies–from straightforward Java implementations and practical agent applications to artificial intelligence algorithms

Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java, Second Edition

Professional Developer’s Guide

The Bigus team overhauls their bestselling guide to reflect changes in the Java platform and share the latest ideas in applied AI, software agents, and multiagent systems. The new edition continues to provide a comprehensive tutorial on the basic AI programming techniques and shows you how to design and develop practical intelligent agent applications in Java. You’ll learn how to build agents that filter information from the Web, automate tasks, monitor dynamic Web content such as airfare information, and negotiate transactions in electronic marketplaces. You’ll also construct a flexible agent platform where multiple agents can reside and interact on your PC.

Explore how this exciting new edition:

• Updates all code to support Java 2 and the Swing GUI
• Adds genetic algorithms and fuzzy rule system implementations
• Updates and expands the treatment of agents and multiagent systems
• Enhances the CIAgent framework with built-in timer and asynchronous event processing capabilities and use of the JavaBean component model
• Includes UML diagrams for the CIAgent classes and object interactions
• Provides a flexible agent platform where you can plug in your own agents
• Expands end-of-chapter exercises, Web resources, and bibliography

The CD-ROM contains:

• The complete Java code with JavaDocs for the examples in the book
• IBM Agent Building and Learning Environment (ABLE)
• Sun Microsystems’ Java Run-Time Environment (JRE) 1.3