Principles: Basic Concepts:

• Objects and Agents: How do they differ? James Odell, Technical Report, http://www.jamesodell.com

• It is an Agent, or just a Program? A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents, Stan Franklin, Art Graesser, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 1996.

• What is an Agent, Anyway? A sociological Case Study, L. Foner, Technical Report, Agent Group, MIT Media Lab. http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Reports/Julia/Agents--Julia.pdf

• Software Agents, M. R. Genesereth and S.P. Ketchpel, Comms of the ACM 37(7) 48-53, 1994.

• The Knowledge Level, Newell, A., Artificial Intelligence, vol. 18, pp. 87‑127, 1982.

• Ch 1-5 of An Introduction to Multiagent Systems, Michael Wooldridge, John Wiley & Sons (Chichester, England), 2001

• Ch 1-12 Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2/E Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 2002

Readings for Communication

• Section 3.1,4.3 , 4.4 from "readings in agent", Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (eds.),1997

• Chapter 2, 8 from "multiagent systems", Gerhard Weiss (ed.) (MIT press, 1999)

• Tim Finin, Richard Fritzson, don McKay, robin McEntire, "KQML as an agent communication language" (1994), proceedings of the 3rd international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM'94)

• Dignum, F., Greaves, "issues in agent communication: an introduction", Springer Verlag, 2000

Readings for Coordination and Rationality

• Section 4.3 from “Readings in Agent”, Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (Eds.),1997

• Chapter 2, 3 & 5 from “Multiagent Systems”, Gerhard Weiss (Ed.) (MIT Press, 1999)

• H. Ghenniwa and M. Kamel "Interaction Devices for Coordinating Cooperative Distributed Systems"; Automation and Soft Computing, Vol.6, No.2, 2000, pp.173-184.

• Martial, F. (1992) Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents (Berlin: Springer‑Verlag).

• Lesser, V., Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems , Kluwer, Academic Publishers, 1, 89–111, July 1998

• Gasser, L. (1992) DAI Approaches to Coordination. In L. Gasser and N. Avouris (eds.) Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Praxis, (Kluwer Academic Press), 31‑51

• Chapters 16 & 17, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 1995.

• J. Rosenschein and Zlotkin, “Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation among Computers” (MIT Press, 1994).

• Luce, R., and Raiffa, H. (1957) Games and Decisions (NY: John Wiley \& Sons).

Readings for Cooperation and Teaming

• Section 4.3 , 4.4 from "Readings in Agent", Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (Eds.),1997

• Chapter 2, 5 from "Multiagent Systems", Gerhard Weiss (Ed.) (MIT Press, 1999)

• N. R. Jennings, "Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems", The Knowledge Engineering Review, 8 (3), 1993, 223-250.

• M. Wooldridge and N. R. Jennings, "Towards a Theory of Cooperative Problem Solving", in Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in Multi-Agent Worlds (MAAMAW-94).

• E. Werner, "Distributed Cooperation Algorithms", in Decentralized A.I., Yves Demazeau & Jean-Pierre Muller (Eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), 1990.

• M. d'Inverno, M. Luck, and M. Wooldridge, "Cooperation Structures", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan, 1997.

• Sandholm, T.W., Lesser, V., "Coalitions Among Computationally Bounded Agents", Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Economic Principles of Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 94, No. 1, 99-137, 1997.

Agent Architecture

• H. Ghenniwa and M. Kamel, "Coordination in Cooperative Distributed Systems: A Rational, Intelligent Agent Model", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

• A S Rao and M P Georgeff, "Modeling rational agents within a BDI architecture", in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, J Allen R Fikes and E Sandewall (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers San Mateo CA

• A. S. Rao and M. Georgeff, "Decision procedures of BDI logics", Journal of Logic and Computation, 8(3):293-344, 1998.

AO Software Engineering

• "Agent-oriented software engineering", Ciancarini, P. And Wooldridge, M. (Eds.) Springer-Verlag lecture notes in computer science volume 1957, January 2001.

• Bauer, B., Extending UML for the specification of interaction protocols, the 6th call for proposal of FIPA, 1999.

• "Agent technology green paper," version 1.0, James Odell ed., Agent working group OMG document ec/2000-08-01.

• "Extending UML for agents," James Odell, H. Van dyke Parunak, Bernhard Bauer, proc. Of the agent-oriented information systems workshop at the 17th national conference on artificial intelligence, Gerd Wagner, Yves Lesperance, and Eric Yu eds., Austin, TX, pp. 3-17accepted paper, AOIS workshop at AAAI 2000.

• Wooldridge, Michael, Nicholas R. Jennings, and David Kinny, "the Gaia methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design, "international journal of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, 3 (3) 285-312, 2000.