Readings in Agents

Chapter 1 Agents and Multiagent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges

Comprehensive introduction by Huhns and Singh

Chapter 2 Applications

Section 2.1 Enterprises

5 articles (on industrial applications, information management with ontologies, concurrent engineering, constraint reasoning, electronic commerce)

Section 2.2 Internet and Information Access

4 articles (on softbots, query processing, matchmaking, digital libraries)

Section 2.3 Personal Assistants

4 articles (on interface agents, collaboration with people, meeting scheduling, exploratory data analysis)

Section 2.4 Other Applications

5 articles (on drama, animation, pedagogy, scheduling, dynamic design)

Chapter 3 Architectures and Infrastructure

Section 3.1 Architectures

5 articles (on architectures for multiagent systems--mediators, agent systems (2 articles), architectures for individual agents--rational and emotional)

Section 3.2 Communications and Knowledge Sharing

3 articles (on agent communication, knowledge sharing, application of ontologies)

Section 3.3 Distributed Computing Aspects

6 articles (on operating system aspects, mobile or itinerant agents, enabled email, digital cash and credit, security and trust)

Chapter 4 Models of Agency

Section 4.1 Rational Agency: Logical

2 articles (on BDI models and agent-oriented programming)

Section 4.2 Rational Agency: Economic

3 articles (on game theory and negotiation, market-oriented programming, focal point techniques)

Section 4.3 Social Agency

5 articles (on social knowledge and action, open systems science, dependence networks, society of objects, cooperative problem solving)

Section 4.4 Interactive Agency

4 articles (on pragmatics of interactions, coordination algorithms, communication semantics, cooperation)

Section 4.5 Adaptive Agency

5 articles (on learning to coordinate (2 articles), multiagent reinforcement learning, Markov processes, agent tracking)