An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems

by Michael Wooldridge

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

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

348 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.