Christopher Amato – författare

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, DAI 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. DAI aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in related areas including general AI, multiagent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory, etc., to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of distributed AI.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, DAI 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.

The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. DAI aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in related areas including general AI, multiagent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory, etc., to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of distributed AI.

This book introduces multiagent planning under uncertainty as formalized by decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs). The intended audience is researchers and graduate students working in the fields of artificial intelligence related to sequential decision making: reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning for single agents, classical multiagent planning, decentralized control, and operations research.

"e;A small coterie of retired cops jumps at the chance to solve the mystery of the neighbor's missing granddaughter. A thoroughly engaging and clever read where the senior sleuths encounter a network of dastardly characters involved in drugs and human trafficking. Two thumbs up!"e; —Sherry Hobbs, author of Bird of Passage and Mac-The Wind Beneath My WingsFour retired detectives. One missing teenager. And a case that doesn't add up.Peace River Village is where people come for quiet streets, friendly neighbors, and the promise of a peaceful life in Sunland, Florida.But safety is an illusion.Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Duncan isn't a runaway. She's a good kid trapped in a troubled home—until one wrong encounter puts her in the path of something far more dangerous than she could ever imagine. When Jennifer vanishes, the police move too quickly, dismissing her as just another runaway. Her grandmother knows better—and refuses to let her disappear without a fight.Desperate for answers, she turns to four retired detectives. They've traded the job for quiet lives, but not their instincts… or the camaraderie that once carried them through their toughest cases. They thought those days were behind them. They were wrong.What begins as a search for Jennifer uncovers a brutal world of drugs, manipulation, and human trafficking operating just beyond the edges of their community. Now, with time running out, they must bring her home—before she disappears into a world no one escapes.Christopher Amato, a former federal agent, delivers a gripping thriller where danger hides in plain sight.