Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

I Orientation 1

1 An Analysis of

Problems

and Research in

DAI

3

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Description, Decomposition, Distribution, and Allocation of Tasks 10

1.3 Interaction, Language, and Communication > 16

1.4 Coherence and Coordination 19

1.5 Modeling Other Agents and Organized Activity 25

1.6 Interagent

Disparities:

Uncertainty and Conflict 29

1.7 Tools for Distributed Artificial Intelligence 33

1.8 Open Problems 35

2

A

Subject-Indexed Bibliography of Distributed Artificial Intelligence 37

Bibliography 42

II Basic

DAI

Problems and Approaches 57

3 Distribution and Task Allocation 59

Introduction 59

3. ...