intelligent agents russell and norvig: ai: a modern approach mike wooldridge: an introduction to mas
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Intelligent Agents
Russell and Norvig: AI: A Modern Approach
Mike Wooldridge: An Introduction to MAS
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Outline
• Agents and environments
• Rationality
• PEAS (Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, Sensors)
• Environment types
• Agent types
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Agents• An agent is anything that can be viewed as
perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators.
• The agent function maps from percept histories to actions:
f: P* A
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A Semantic Framework
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Vacuum-cleaner world
• Percepts: location and contents, e.g., [A,Dirty]• Actions: Left, Right, Suck• Function-table (table look-up agent)
Percept Action
[A, Clean]
[A, Dirty]
[B, Clean]
[B, Dirty]
Right
Suck
Left
Suck
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Agency• Autonomous• Reactivity• Proactivity• Social ability
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Reactivity• If a program’s environment is guaranteed to be fixed,
the program need never worry about its own success or failure – program just executes blindly– Example of fixed environment: compiler
• The real world is not like that: things change, information is incomplete. Many (most?) interesting environments are dynamic
• A reactive system is one that – maintains an ongoing interaction with its environment,
– responds to changes that occur in it.
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Proactiveness• Reacting to an environment is easy
(e.g., stimulus response rules)
• But we generally want agents to do things for us
• Hence goal directed behavior
• Pro-activeness = generating and attempting to achieve goals; not driven solely by events; taking the initiative
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Social Ability• The real world is a multi-agent environment:
we cannot go around attempting to achieve goals without taking others into account
• Some goals can only be achieved with the cooperation of others
• Social ability in agents is the ability to interact with other agents (and possibly humans) via some kind of agent-communication language.
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Rational agents
• An agent should strive to "do the right thing", based on what it can perceive and the actions it can perform. The right action is the one that will cause the agent to be most successful.
• Performance measure: An objective criterion for success of an agent's behavior.
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Rational agents
• Rational Agent: For each possible percept sequence, a rational agent should select an action that is expected to maximize its performance measure, given the evidence provided by the percept sequence and whatever built-in knowledge the agent has.– The performance measure that defines the criterion of
success.– The agent’s prior knowledge of the environment.– The actions that the agent can perform.– The agent’s percept sequence to date.
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Rational agents
• Rationality is distinct from omniscience (all-knowing with infinite knowledge)
• Agents can perform actions in order to modify future percepts so as to obtain useful information (information gathering, planning)
• An agent is autonomous if its behavior is determined by its own experience (with ability to learn and adapt).
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Specify the setting for intelligent agent design:PEAS Description
• Performance measure• Environment• Actuators• Sensors
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Specify the setting for intelligent agent design:PEAS Description
• Performance measure• Environment• Actuators• Sensors
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Environment Types Fully Observable vs. Partially
Observable• An fully observable environment is one in which
the agent can obtain complete, accurate, up-to-date information about the environment’s state.
• Most moderately complex environments (including, for example, the everyday physical world and the Internet) are partially observable.
• The more accessible an environment is, the simpler it is to build agents to operate in it.• Do not maintain the internal state to keep track of the world.
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Environment TypesDeterministic vs. non-deterministic
• A deterministic environment is one in which any action has a single guaranteed effect — there is no uncertainty about the state that will result from performing an action.
• In deterministic environments, agents do not worry about uncertainty.
• Non-deterministic environments present greater problems for the agent designer.
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Environment TypesEpisodic vs. sequential
• In an episodic environment, the performance of an agent is dependent on a number of discrete episodes, with no link between the performance of an agent in different scenarios.
• In episodic environment, agents do not think ahead.
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Environment TypesStatic vs. dynamic
• A static environment is one that can be assumed to remain unchanged except by the performance of actions by the agent.– Agents do not keep looking at ENV when making
decisions.
• A dynamic environment is one that has other processes operating on it, and which hence changes in ways beyond the agent’s control.
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Environment TypesDiscrete vs. continuous
• An environment is discrete if there are a fixed, finite number of actions and percepts in it.
• Continuous environments have a certain level of mismatch with computer systems
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Agent types
• Simple reflex agents
• Model-based reflex agents
• Goal-based agents
• Utility-based agents
Generality
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Simple reflex agents
Use condition-action rules to map the agent’s perceptions directly to action.Making decisions only with inputs.
ENVInference
EngineReflex rules
Percepts
Actions
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Model-based reflex agents
ENVDecisionRules
Percepts
Actions
Update World Model
World Model
Have an internal model (state) of the external environment.
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Goal-based agents
ENVTrigger/Prioritize
Goals/Tasks
Goals Tasks
Percepts
Actions
Update World Model
World Model
Problem Solving Methods
Select goals/tasks
Select Methods/Actions
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Utility-based agents
ENVTrigger/Prioritize
Goals/Tasks
Goals Tasks
Percepts
Actions
Update World Model
World Model
Problem Solving Methods Select
goals/tasks
Select Methods/Actions
Utility
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Task of Software Agents
• Interacting with human users– Personal assistants (email processing)– Information/Product search– Sales– Chat room host– Computer generated characters in games
• Interacting with other agents– Facilitators.– Brokers.
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Intelligent Behavior of Agents
• Learning about users• Learning about information sources• Learning about categorizing information• Learning about similarity• Constraint satisfaction algorithms• Reasoning using domain-specific
knowledge• Planning
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Technologies of Software Agents
• Machine learning
• Information retrieval
• Agent communication
• Agent coordination
• Agent negotiation
• Natural language understanding
• Distributed objects
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Multi-Agent Systems•What are MAS•Objections to MAS•Agents and objects•Agents and expert systems•Agent communication languages•Application areas
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What are Multi-Agent Systems?
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MultiAgent Systems: A Definition
• A multiagent system is one that consists of a number of agents, which have different goals and interact with one-another
• To successfully interact, they will require the ability to cooperate, compete, and negotiate with each other, much as people do
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MultiAgent Systems: A Definition• Two key problems:
– How do we build agents capable of independent, autonomous action, so that they can successfully carry out tasks we delegate to them? (agent design)
– How do we build agents that are capable of interacting (cooperating, coordinating, negotiating) with other agents in order to successfully carry out those delegated tasks, especially when the other agents cannot be assumed to share the same interests/goals? (society design)
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Multi-Agent Systems• It addresses questions such as:
– How can cooperation emerge in societies of self-interested agents?
– What kinds of communication languages can agents use?
– How can self-interested agents recognize conflict, and how can they (nevertheless) reach agreement?
– How can autonomous agents coordinate their activities so as to cooperatively achieve goals?
• These questions are all addressed in part by other disciplines (notably economics and social sciences).
• Agents are computational, information processing entities.
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Objections to MAS• Isn’t it all just Distributed/Concurrent
Systems?There is much to learn from this community, but:
• Agents are assumed to be autonomous, capable of making independent decision – so they need mechanisms to synchronize and coordinate their activities at run time.
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Objections to MAS• Isn’t it all just AI?
• We don’t need to solve all the problems of artificial intelligence (i.e., all the components of intelligence).
• Classical AI ignored social aspects of agency. These are important parts of intelligent activity in real-world settings.
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Objections to MAS• Isn’t it all just Economics/Game Theory?
These fields also have a lot to teach us in multiagent systems (like rationality), but:
• Insofar as game theory provides descriptive concepts, it doesn’t always tell us how to compute solutions; we’re concerned with computational, resource-bounded agents.
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Objections to MAS• Isn’t it all just Social Science?• We can draw insights from the study of
human societies, but again agents are computational, resource-bounded entities.
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Agents and Objects• Are agents just objects by another
name?
• Object:– encapsulates some state– communicates via message passing– has methods, corresponding to
operations that may be performed on this state
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Agents and Objects• Main differences:
– agents are autonomous:they decide for themselves whether or not to perform an action on request from another agent
– agents are smart:capable of flexible (reactive, pro-active, social) behavior, and the standard object model has nothing to say about such types of behavior
– agents are active:a multi-agent system is inherently multi-threaded, in that each agent is assumed to have at least one thread of active control
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Objects do it for free…
• agents do it because they want to
• agents do it for money
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Agents and Expert Systems• Expert systems typically disembodied
‘expertise’ about some (abstract) domain of discourse (e.g., blood diseases)
• Example: MYCIN knows about blood diseases in humans– It has a wealth of knowledge about blood diseases,
in the form of rules– A doctor can obtain expert advice about blood
diseases by giving MYCIN facts, answering questions, and posing queries
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Agents and Expert Systems• Main differences:
– Distributed.– agents situated in an environment:
MYCIN is not aware of the world — only information obtained is by asking the user questions
– agents act:MYCIN does not operate on patients
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Agent Communication• speech acts
• KQML
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Speech Acts• Searle (1969) identified various different types of speech
act:– representatives:
such as informing, e.g., ‘It is raining’– directives:
attempts to get the hearer to do something e.g., ‘please make the tea’
– commisives:which commit the speaker to doing something, e.g., ‘I promise to… ’
– expressives:whereby a speaker expresses a mental state, e.g., ‘thank you!’
– declarations:such as declaring war or christening
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KQML• Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
– A language for the “message structure” of agent communication
• It describes the “speech act” of the message using a set of performatives (communicative verbs).
• Each performative has required and optional arguments.• The content language of the message is not part of
KQML, but can be specified by KQML performatives.
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An Example
(stream-all:content “(PRICE ?my-profolio ?price)”: receiver stock-server: language PROLOG: ontology NYSE
)The stream-all performative asks a set of answers
to be returned into a stream of replies.
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KQML Performatives
• It describes the speech acts of the message.
• It specifies the communication protocol to be used.
• Classified into 7 categories.
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Categories of Performatives• Basic query: evaluate, ask-if, ask-about, ask-
one, ask-all• Multiple-response query: stream-about, stream-
all• Response: reply, sorry• Generic information: tell, achieve (ask other
agents to create a goal), cancel, untell (undo tell), unachieve (forget the previous goal)
• Generator: standby, ready, next, rest, discard• Capability-definition: advertise, recommend,
subscribe, monitor, import, export• Networking: register, unregister, forward,
broadcast, route.
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Application Areas• Agents are usefully applied in domains where
autonomous action is required.• Main application areas:
– Distributed Systems– Networks– Human-Computer Interfaces
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Domain 1: Distributed Systems• In this area, the idea of an agent is seen as
a natural metaphor, and a development of the idea of concurrent object programming.
• Example domains:– air traffic control (Sydney airport)– business process management– power systems management– distributed sensing– factory process control
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Domain 2: Networks• There is currently a lot of interest in mobile
agents, that can move themselves around a network (e.g., the Internet) operating on a user’s behalf
• This kind of functionality is achieved in the TELESCRIPT language developed by General Magic for remote programming
• Applications include:– hand-held PDAs with limited bandwidth– information gathering
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Domain 3: HCI• One area of much current interest is the use of agent
in interfaces• The idea is to move away from the direct manipulation
paradigm that has dominated for so long• Agents sit ‘over’ applications, watching, learning, and
eventually doing things without being told — taking the initiative
• Pioneering work at MIT Media Lab (Pattie Maes):– news reader– web browsers– mail readers