Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition June 12, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 047149691X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471496915
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
"…an great introductory textbook…" (Agent Link News, November 2002)
Book Description
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
Reader Reviews
Wooldridge's book is a great introduction that guides the reader from motivations, over several agent architectures through to chapters about interaction, methodology and much more. It gets very close to Weiss's book on Distributed Artificial Intelligence but presents a more readable treatise leaving out some of the details and formalisms. This book will equip the reader with the necessary foundations (and more) allowing her to explore more involved issues on her own. As a companion to Gerhard Weiss's book or as a comprehensive introduction of its own, this book is definitely unbeaten so far.
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