Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations

by Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown

This exciting and pioneering new overview of multiagent systems, which are online systems composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents, i.e., online trading, offers a newly seen computer science perspective on multiagent systems, while integrating ideas from operations research, game theory, economics, logic, and even philosophy and linguistics. The authors emphasize foundations to create a broad and rigorous treatment of their subject, with thorough presentations of distributed problem solving, game theory, multiagent communication and learning, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, cooperative game theory, and modal logics of knowledge and belief. For each topic, basic concepts are introduced, examples are given, proofs of key results are offered, and algorithmic considerations are examined. An appendix covers background material in probability theory, classical logic, Markov decision processes and mathematical programming. Written by two of the leading researchers of this engaging field, this book will surely serve as THE reference for researchers in the fastest-growing area of computer science, and be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.

Genres: Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Textbooks, Algorithms, Logic

504 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2008

Reviews

[Nick Black]

Freely available at http://www.masfoundations.org/downloa... thanks, Professors Shoham and Leyton-Brown!

[Jiaming Jiang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many mathematical details. Seems to be better used a reference if needed instead of an introductory reading.