An introduction to multiagent systems

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Wooldridge

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first textbook to be explicitly designed for use as a course text for an undergraduate/graduate course on multi-agent systems. Assuming only a basic understanding of computer science, this text provides an introduction to all the main issues in the theory and practice of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. * The companion Web Site includes sample exercises, lecture slidest and hyperlinks to software referred to in the book * Introduces agents, explains what agents are, how they are constructed and how they can be made to co-operate effectively with one another in large-scale systems * Introduces the main issues surrounding the design of intelligent agents * Introduces a number of typical applications for agent technology

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page p0001.djvu
Contents......Page p0008.djvu
Preface......Page p0012.djvu
Introduction......Page p0020.djvu
Intelligent Agents......Page p0034.djvu
Deductive Reasoning Agents......Page p0066.djvu
Practical Reasoning Agents......Page p0084.djvu
Reactive and Hybrid Agents......Page p0108.djvu
Multiagent Interactions......Page p0124.djvu
Reaching Agreements......Page p0148.djvu
Communication......Page p0182.djvu
Working Together......Page p0208.djvu
Methodologies......Page p0244.djvu
Applications......Page p0264.djvu
Logics for Multiagent Systems......Page p0286.djvu
Appendix A - A History Lesson......Page p0322.djvu
Afterword......Page p0336.djvu
References......Page p0338.djvu
Index......Page p0362.djvu
BackCover......Page p0368.djvu