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Designing Autonomous Agents
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Google Books lists Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back as a 1990 MIT Press paperback edited by Pattie Maes. The public page is a bibliographic record with ISBN 9780262631358, 194 pages, and a 25-page preview control; it does not show the book's interior text. The publisher description presents the collection as a survey of then-new robot architectures that couple sensing more directly to action, distribute control, and cope with limited resources and incomplete knowledge.
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- The public page is a catalog record, not the book. Google Books exposes title, subtitle, editor, 1990, MIT Press, ISBN, page count, and a 25-page preview chrome without captured chapter text.
- Maes is listed as editor of a robot-architecture collection. The edition page names Pattie Maes as editor of a 194-page English paperback on organizing robots.
- The publisher frames architectures that couple sensing to action. The MIT Press description emphasizes distributedness, decentralization, dynamic interaction with the environment, and mechanisms for limited resources and incomplete knowledge.
- The research program names specific mechanisms. Emergent functionality, task-level decomposition, analogical representations, and visual operations are the ideas the description says the collection covers.
- Other 1990 editions sit beside it. Google Books also lists MIT Press and North-Holland editions from 1990, plus a related MIT Press title on learning robots.
quotes
“Designing Autonomous Agents provides a summary and overview of the radically different architectures that have been developed over the past few years for organizing robots.”
“The new architectures emphasize more direct coupling of sensing to action, distributedness and decentralization”
“The research discussed here encompasses such important ideas as emergent functionality, task-level decomposition”