Distributed Artificial Intelligence : A Modern Approach (Hardcover)

1. What is DAI? 2. Intelligent Agents. 3. Problem Solving Using DAI. 4. Beyond Classical Search. 5. Adversarial Search. 6. Constraints Satisfaction Problem. 7. Decision Procedures. 8. Cooperation through Communication in a Distributed Problem-Solving Network. 9. Instantiating Descriptions of Organizational Structures. 10. The Architecture of the Agora Environment. 11. Test Beds for Distributed AI Research. 12. Frameworks for Real-Time Distributed Cooperative Problem Solving. 13. A Connectionist Encoding of Sematic Networks. 14. Examples of Context Free Recognizers. 15. DAI for Document Retrieval. 16. Manufacturing Experience with the Contract Net. 17. Participant Systems. 18. Distributed Artificial Intelligence: An Annotated Bibliography.