An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems

by Michael Wooldridge

The eagerly anticipated updated resource on one of the most important areas of research and multi-agent systems Multi-agent systems allow many intelligent agents to interact with each other, and this field of study has advanced at a rapid pace since the publication of the first edition of this book, which was nearly a decade ago. With this exciting new edition, the coverage of multi-agents is completely updated to include several areas that have come to prominence in the last several years, including auctions, computational social choice, and markov decision processes. In turn, a variety of topics that were initially considered critical have dwindled in importance, so the coverage of that subject matter is decreased with this new edition. The result of this redefined balance of coverage is a timely and essential resource on a popular topic.

Genres: Computer Science, Technical, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

492 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 13, 2002

Reviews

[genotypewriter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Intelligent Agents is a pseudo research area in computer science because an unimaginable amount of literature has been published on it since its birth but there has been no significant advancement of it yet.

I was hoping that this book would spare me the Intelligent Agents fairytale and get to the grit but it didn't. Wooldridge being an ardent fanboy of IAs, it was my fault to expect otherwise.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great field, but the book is far too sporadic. It attempts to cover so many topics that it inundates the reader. Some chapters are well-written and clear, and some are simply a hodgepodge of examples with no connections to the text. Some of the notation in the book is also quite cumbersome. One thing that was great is the use of mind-maps at the end of the chapter to show the topics and sub-topics covered. If you take a look at these, you'll see how it's easy for this rather short text to take on more than it could handle.

[Sarah]

I proofread this book for the publisher.