Multiagent systems : a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence / edited by Gerhard Weiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Gerhard, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligent agents (Computer software).

Distributed artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 619 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence. The book provides detailed coverage of basic topics as well as several closely related ones and is suitable as a textbook.

Unlike traditional textbooks, the book brings together many leading experts, guaranteeing a broad and diverse base of knowledge and expertise. It emphasizes aspects of both theory and application and provides many illustrations and examples. Also included are thought-provoking exercises of varying degrees of difficulty and a twenty-page glossary of terms found in the study of agents, multiagent systems, and distributed artificial intelligence.

The book can be used for teaching as well as self-study, and it is designed to meet the needs of both researchers and practitioners. In view of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, it will be a useful reference not only for computer scientists and engineers, but for social scientists and management and organization scientists as well.

Contents:

Intelligent agents / Michael Wooldridge.

Multiagent systems and societies of agents / Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens.

Distributed problem solving and planning / Edmund H. Durfee.

Search algorithms for agents / Makoto Yokoo, Toru Ishida.

Distributed rational decision making / Tuomas W. Sandholm.

Learning in multiagent systems / Sandip Sen, Gerhard Weiss.

Computational organization theory / Kathleen M. Carley, Les Gasser.

Formal methods in DAI: logic-based representation and reasoning / Munindar P. Singh, Anand S. Rao, Michael P. Georgeff.

Industrial and practical applications of DAI / H. Van Dyke Parunak.

Groupware and computer supported cooperative work / Clarence Ellis, Jacques Wainer.

Distributed models for decision support / Jose Cuena, Sascha Ossowski.

Concurrent programming for DAI / Gul A. Agha, Nadeem Jamali.

Distributed control algorithms for AI / Gerard Tel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262232030

OCLC:

40269828