http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#multi-agent-systems <P>Cf. <a href="agent-based-modeling.html">Agent-Based Modeling</a>; <a href="collective-cognition.html">Collective Cognition</a>; <a href="complex-networks.html">Complex Networks</a>; <a href="institutions.html">Institutions and Organizations</a>; <a href="learning-games.html">Learning in Games</a>; the <a href="minority-game.html">Minority Game</a>; <a href="parallel.html">Parallel and Distributed Computing</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Dorigo and Colombetti, <cite>Robot Shaping</cite> <li>Kristina Lerman, "Design and Mathematical Analysis of Agent-based Systems", technical report, Information Sciences Institute [<a href="http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/papers/fmw00_abstract.html">Link</a>] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>David Angeli and Pierre-Alexandre Bliman, "Stability of leaderless multi-agent systems. Extension of a result by Moreau", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math.OC/0411338">math.OC/0411338</a> <li>Eric Baum and Igor Durdanovic, "Evolution of Cooperative Problem Solving in an Artificial Economy," <a href="http://neco.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/12/12/2743"><cite>Neural Computation</cite> <strong>12</strong> (2000): 2743--2775</a> <li>Jacques Ferber, <cite>Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence</cite> <li>Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser, "A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269888905000317"><cite>The Knowledge Engineering Review</cite> <strong>19</strong> (2004): 281--316</a> <li>K. Iwata, K. Ikeada and H. Sakai, "A Statistical Property of Multiagent Learning Based on Markov Decision Process", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNN.2006.875990"><cite>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks</cite> <strong>17</strong> (2006): 829--842</a> <li>Paul Jefferies and Neil F. Johnson, "Designing agent-based market models," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207523">cond-mat/0207523</a> <li>Kristina Lerman, Aram Galstyan and Tad Hogg, "Mathematical Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.RO/0404002">cs.RO/0404002</a> <li>Sonia Martinez, Francesco Bullo, Jorge Cortes and Emilio Frazzoli, "Synchronous robotic networks and complexity of control and communication laws", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math.OC/0501499">math.OC/0501499</a> <li>Sascha Ossowski, <cite>Co-Ordination in Artificial Agent Societies: Social Structure and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents</cite> <li>Julian A. Padget, <cite>Collaboration Between Human and Artificial Societies: Coordination and Agent-Based Distributed Computing</cite> <li>Frank Schweitzer, Joerg Zimmermann and Heinz Muehlenbein, "Coordination of Decisions in a Spatial Agent Model," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109121">cond-mat/0109121</a> <li>Giovanni Sebastiani and Giovanni Luca Torrisi, "An Extended Ant Colony Algorithm and Its Convergence Analysis", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11009-005-1485-z"><cite>Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability</cite> <strong>7</strong> (2005): 249--263</a> ["[W]e propose a stochastic algorithm for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems." Hopefully only <em>approximately</em> solving them...] <li>V. S. Subrahmanian, Peiro Bonatti, J&uuml;rgen Dix, Thomas Eiter, Sarit Karus, Fatma Ozcan and Robert Ross, <cite>Heterogeneous Agent Systems</cite> <li>Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas, <cite>Agent Intelligence through Data Mining</cite> [<a href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-153-22-46687939-detailsPage%253Dppmmedia%257CaboutThisBook%257CaboutThisBook,00.html">Blurb</a>] <li>J. -J. van der Vyver , M. Christen , N. Stoop , T. Ott , W. -H. Steeb and R. Stoop, "Towards genuine machine autonomy", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2004.01.002"><cite>Robotics and Autonomous Systems</cite> <strong>46</strong> (2004): 151--157</a> <li>Gerhard Weiss et al., <cite>Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence</cite> <li>David H. Wolpert and Stefan Bienawski, "Distributed Control by Lagrangian Steepest Descent", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.MA/0403012">cs.MA/0403012</a> </ul>