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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1624)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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The full title of the HCM network project behind this volume is VIM: A virtual multicomputer for symbolic applications. The three strands which bound the network together were parallel systems, advanced compilation techniques andarti?cialintelligence witha commonsubstrate in the programminglanguage Lisp. The initial aim of the project was to demonstrate how the combination of these three technologies could be used to build a virtual multicomputer — an ephemeral, persistent machine of available heterogeneous computing resources — for large scale symbolic applications . The system would support a virtual processor abstraction to distribute data and tasks across the multicomputer, the actual physical composition of which may change dynamically. Our practical objective was to assist in the prototyping of dynamic distributed symbolic app- cations in arti?cial intelligence using whatever resources are available (probably networked workstations), so that the developed program could also be run on more exotic hardware without reprogramming. What we had not foreseen at the outset of the project was how agents would unify the strands at the application level, as distinct from the system level o- lined above. It was as a result of the agent in?uence that we held two workshops in May and December 1997 with the title “Collaboration between human and arti?cial societies”. The papers collected in this volume are a selection from presentations made at those two workshops. In each case the format consisted of a number of invited speakers plus presentations from the network partners.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Languages and Systems
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Agents and Capabilities
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Coordination and Collaboration
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaboration between Human and Artificial Societies
Book Subtitle: Coordination and Agent-Based Distributed Computing
Editors: Julian A. Padget
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10703260
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-66930-2Published: 15 December 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46624-6Published: 31 December 2006
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters