Download or read book Multi-Agent Systems. Theories, Languages and Applications written by Chengqi Zhang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th Australian Workshop on distributed Artificial Intelligence held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia in July 1998. The 13 revised full selected and invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book is devoted to theoretical aspects, languages, and applications of various types of multi-agent systems. Among the topics covered are self-interested mobile agents, formal specification of MAS, coordination, reinforcement learning, self organization, agent negotiation, agent-based intelligent systems, Internet-based DAI applications, agent-based scheduling, Internet agent trading.