Distributed Artificial Intelligence presents a collection of papers describing the state of
research in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). DAI is concerned with the cooperative
solution of problems by a decentralized group of agents. The agents may range from simple
processing elements to complex entities exhibiting rational behavior. The book is organized
into three parts. Part I addresses ways to develop control abstractions that efficiently guide
problem-solving; communication abstractions that yield cooperation; and description …

… The last several years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in Distributed Artificial
Intelligence (DAI). This interest has been international in scope; we now know of strong DAI
research teams in at least eleven countries around the world. The continued development
of DAI is chronicled here, and this book attests to the quality and diversity of recent research.
The American Association for … We are grateful to the authors of the chapters in this book
for their ideas, insights, and experimental results that are at the forefront of the development …