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This 2002 book investigates the opportunities in building intelligent decision support systems offered by multi-agent distributed probabilistic reasoning. Probabilistic reasoning with graphical models, also known as Bayesian networks or belief networks, has become increasingly an active field of research and practice in artificial intelligence, operations research and statistics. The success of this technique in modeling intelligent decision support systems under the centralized and single-agent paradigm has been striking. Yang Xiang extends graphical dependence models to the distributed and multi-agent paradigm. He identifies the major technical challenges involved in such an endeavor and presents the results. The framework developed in the book allows distributed representation of uncertain knowledge on a large and complex environment embedded in multiple cooperative agents, and effective, exact and distributed probabilistic inference.
This 2002 book investigates the opportunities in building intelligent decision support systems offered by multi-agent distributed probabilistic reasoning. Probabilistic reasoning with graphical models, also known as Bayesian networks or belief networks, has become increasingly an active field of research and practice in artificial intelligence, operations research and statistics. The success of this technique in modeling intelligent decision support systems under the centralized and single-agent paradigm has been striking. Yang Xiang extends graphical dependence models to the distributed and multi-agent paradigm. He identifies the major technical challenges involved in such an endeavor and presents the results. The framework developed in the book allows distributed representation of uncertain knowledge on a large and complex environment embedded in multiple cooperative agents, and effective, exact and distributed probabilistic inference.
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Bayesian networks; 3. Belief updating and cluster graphs; 4. Junction tree representation; 5. Belief updating with junction trees; 6. Multiply sectioned Bayesian networks; 7. Linked junction forests; 8. Distributed multi-agent inference; 9. Model construction and verification; 10. Looking into the future; Bibliography; Index.
Addresses the challenges of building intelligent agents to cooperate on complex tasks in uncertain environments.
Review of the hardback: '… this is a valuable and welcome
comprehensive guide to the state-of-the-art in applying belief
networks.' Kybernetes
Review of the hardback: '… the well-balanced treatment of
multiagent systems will make the book useful to both theoretical
computer scientists and the more applied artificial intelligence
community. Moreover, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject
makes it relevant not only to computer scientists but also to
people from operations research and microeconomics (social choice
and game theory in particular). The book easily deserves to be on
the shelf of any modern theoretical computer scientist.' SIGACT
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