Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems

Essential BOOKS

· M. Wooldridge. An Introduction to Multiagent Systems. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2002.

· M. d'Inverno, M. Luck. Understanding Agent Systems. Springer Verlag, 2001.

· M. Wooldrige. Reasoning about Rational Agents. The MIT Press, 2000

· Gerhard Weiss (Ed.). Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press, 1999

· J. Ferber. Multi-Agent Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

· M. Huhns & M. Singh (Eds.). Readings in Agents. Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

Resources and organizations

Multi-Agent Systems. This site contains pointers to information about multiagent systems, including both research and industrial references.

MAS at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence). Introduction to MAS, list of readings

Inteligent agents at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence). Introduction to agenst, list of readings

IFAAMAS. The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote science and technology in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium. A site aiming to foster and improve the development, communication, and dissemination of agent based models for research, practice, and education. A lot of useful information, including news and events.

Self-Organisation in MAS - TFG AgentLink III. Site with essential information on self-organizing multi-agent systems and related events

Agreement Technologies - EU COST Action IC0801. Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. 2008-2012

Web Intelligence Consortium - a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence, including intelligent agents, and advanced Information Technology