Decision Theory and Multi-Agent Planning - CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Contains papers read at the 7th International Workshop entitled Intelligent Agents: decision-support and planning Udine, Italy, Sept 30th-Oct 2, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface -- Making decisions from weighted arguments / by l. Amgoud, H. Prade -- Qualitative Preference Modelling in Constraint Satisfaction / Y. Dimopoulos, P. Moraitis, A. Tsoukias -- MCDA - Multi-Criteria Decision Making in e-commerce / H. J. Lenz, A. Ablovatski -- Some Recent Results and Open Questions in Distributed Resource Allocation / Y. Chevaleyre, U. Endriss, N. Maudet -- Logical representation of preference: a brief survey / J. Lang -- Possibility Theory and its Applications: a Retrospective and Prospective view / D. Dubois, H. Prade -- Efficient computation of project characteristics in a series-parallel activity network with interval durations / P. Zielinski -- Graphical Models for Industrial Planning on Complex Domains / J. Gebhardt, A. Klose, H. Detmer -- On Markov decision models with an absorbing set / K. H. Waldman -- Automated Behavior Modeling - Recognizing and Predicting Agent Behavior / J. Wendler -- Features of Emotional Planning in Software Agents / S. Rank, P. Petta, R. Trappl. Publisher Marketing: The work presents a modern, unified view on decision support and planning by considering its basics like preferences, belief, possibility and probability as well as utilities. These features together are immanent for software agents to believe the user that the agents are intelligent.

Contributor Bio:  DuBois, Didier DeBois, Department of Automatics, ONERA-CERT, Toulouse, France. Contributor Bio:  Kruse, Rudolf Kruse-Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany