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Agent-Oriented Programming - From Prolog to Guarded Definite Clauses (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
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Agent-Oriented Programming - From Prolog to Guarded Definite Clauses (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1630
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book - it is
a plaything. TL Peacock: Crochet Castle The paradigm presented in
this book is proposed as an agent programming language. The book
charts the evolution of the language from Prolog to intelligent
agents. To a large extent, intelligent agents rose to prominence in
the mid-1990s because of the World Wide Web and an ill-structured
network of multimedia information. Age- oriented programming was a
natural progression from object-oriented programming which C++ and
more recently Java popularized. Another strand of influence came
from a revival of interest in robotics [Brooks, 1991a; 1991b]. The
quintessence of an agent is an intelligent, willing slave.
Speculation in the area of artificial slaves is far more ancient
than twentieth century science fiction. One documented example is
found in Aristotle's Politics written in the fourth century BC.
Aristotle classifies the slave as "an animate article of property".
He suggests that slaves or subordinates might not be necessary if
"each instrument could do its own work at command or by
anticipation like the statues of Daedalus and the tripods of
Hephaestus". Reference to the legendary robots devised by these
mythological technocrats, the former an artificer who made wings
for Icarus and the latter a blacksmith god, testify that the
concept of robot, if not the name, was ancient even in Aristotle's
time.
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