Customer Reviews

An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Wooldridge's book is a great introduction that guides the reader from motivations, over several agent architectures through to chapters about interaction, methodology and much more. It gets very close to Weiss's book on Distributed Artificial Intelligence but presents a more readable treatise leaving out some of the details and formalisms.
This book will equip the reader with the necessary foundations (and more) allowing her to explore more involved issues on her own. As a companion to Gerhard Weiss's book or as a comprehensive introduction of its own, this book is definitely unbeaten so far.

This book gives a clear overview over the board topic of MultiAgent Systems. Explainations are easy to follow and the references at the back of the book are particularly useful for those who want to dig deeper into any specific topic. This book itself will not make one an expert in the field but it provide all necessary knowledge for further independent study.
Very easy to read even for students with English as a second language, ideal for use as a text book at university level.
(I'm a post-graduate engineering student)

I wonder if I read the book consulted by peer reviewers. Mine was highly abstract, and did not give me any practical knowledge. I recall a very basic introduction to game theory, and a disclaimer at the beginning saying that this book was not about machine learning. I would recommend looking at Wooldridge's other books.

This book is great to read and highly informative! You can learn about intelligent agents from one of the big names in Agent research.