Multiagent Systems: Literature

• Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundation
• An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems - Second Edition - by Michael Wooldridge. Published by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN-10: 0470519460.
• Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation among Computers by J.S. Rosenschein and G. Zlotkin. Published by The MIT Press

Further reading (papers)

• Axelrod Tournament: The evolution of cooperation by Robert Axelrod, Richard Dawkins. A short article of this work is here.
  
  
• Ant Colony Optimization: An Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization by M. Dorigo and K. Socha.
  
  
• Traffic Simulation: Recent Development and Applications of SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility by Daniel Krajzewicz, J. Erdmann, M. Behrisch, and L. Bieker.
  
  
• Multi-agent programming: Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Platforms and Applications by R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, and A. El Fallah Seghrouchni.
  
  
• Automated negotiation and auctions: Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC).
  
  
• Swarm intelligence: A survey of swarm intelligence for dynamic optimization: Algorithms and applications by M. Mavrovouniotisa, C. Lib, and S. Yang. A netlogo model.
  
  
• Bidding, Opponent Modeling, and Accepting: Decoupling Negotiating Agents to Explore the Space of Negotiation Strategies by Tim Baarslag, Koen V. Hindriks, Mark J. C. Hendrikx, Alex S. Y. Dirkzwager and Catholijn M. Jonker.
  
  
• Negotiating agents and the competition: The First Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2010) by Tim Baarslag, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Sarit Kraus and Raz Lin.
  
  
• Simple time-based concession functions: Negotiation decision functions for autonomous agents by P. Faratin, C. Sierra, and N.R. Jennings.
  
  
• Negotiation under uncertainty: Optimal negotiation strategies for agents with incomplete information by S. Shaheen Fatima, MichaelWooldridge, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
  
  
• Distributed data and multi-agent systems Golden Agents project.
  
  
• Acceptance strategies and optimal stopping: Accepting optimally in automated negotiation with incomplete information. by Baarslag, T., & Hindriks, K. V..
  
  
• Travoss Trust and reputation in the context of inaccurate information sources. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 12(2), 183-198, (2006).
  Teacy, W. L., Patel, J., Jennings, N. R., & Luck, M.
  
  
• Formal Trust Model for Multiagent Systems. In IJCAI (Vol. 7, pp. 1551-1556), (2007).
  Wang, Y., & Singh, M. P.
  
  
• Smart cheaters do prosper: defeating trust and reputation systems. In Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems-Volume 2 (pp. 993-1000). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, (2009).
  Kerr, R., & Cohen, R.
  
  
• Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1-Volume 1 (pp. 241-248). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, (2010).
  Burnett, C., Norman, T. J., & Sycara, K.
  
  
• Contract enactment in virtual organizations: A commitment-Based approach
  Y. B. Udupi, M.P. Singh
  
  
• Agent communication and artificial institutions
  N. Fornara, F. Vigano, Marco Colombetti
  
  
• Verifying Compliance with commitment protocols: enabling open web-based multiagent systems
  M. Venkatraman, M. Singh
  
  
• Coordination artifacts: Environment based coordination for intelligent agents
  A. Omicini, A. Ricci, C. Castelfranchi, L. Tummolini
  
  
• Role-based access control models
  R. Sandhu, E. Coyne, H. Feinstein, C. Youman
  
  
• An ontology for commitments in multiagent systems: Towards a unification of normative concepts
  M. Singh
  
  
• Dynamic protocol for open multi-agent systems
  A. Artikis, J. Pitt
  
  
• A Dialogue Game Protocol for Multi-Agent Argument over Proposals for Action
  Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, Peter Mcburney
  
  
• Modular Representation of Agent Interaction Rules through Argumentation
  Antonis Kakas, Nicolas Maudet, Pavlos Moraitis
  
  
• A Dialogue Mechanism for Public Argumentation Using Conversation Policies
  Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons
  
  
• On the relevance of utterances in formal inter-agent dialogues.
  Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Elizabeth Sklar, Michael Wooldridge:
  
  
• Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols.
  Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
  
  
• An Integrated Development Environment for Electronic Institutions
  Josep Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan Rodrıguez, Carles Sierra
  
  
• Engineering Open Environments with Electronic Institutions
  Josep Ll. Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodrıguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra
  
  
• AMELI: An agent-based middleware for electronic institutions
  Marc Esteva, Bruno Rosell, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Josep Lluis Arcos
  
  
• On the formal specification of electronic institutions
  Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Pere García, Josep Lluis Arcos
  
  
• A Model for the Structural, Functional, and Deontic Specification of Organizations in Multiagent Systems
  Jomi Fred Hubner, Jaime Simao Sichman, and Olivier Boissier
  
  
• Programming Normative Artifacts with Declarative Obligations and Prohibitions.
  Nick Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer, Leon van der Torre.
  
  
• Roles and norms for programming agent organizations. In Proceedings of the Eight International Joint Conference on Nick
  Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer.
  
  
• Adding organisations and roles as primitives to the jade framework
  M. Baldoni, V. Genovese, R. Grenna, L. van der Torre
  
  
• On the Characterisation of Law and Computer Systems: The Normative Systems Perspective
  Andrew J. I. Jones, Marek Sergot
  
  
• Action and Agency in Norm-Governed Multi-agent Systems
  Marek Sergot
  
  
• A computational theory of normative positions.
  Marek Sergot
  
  
• Specifying Norm-Governed Computational Societies
  Alexander Artikis, Marek Sergot, Jeremy Pitt
  
  
• Introduction to Normative Multiagent Systems
  Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre, Harko Verhagen
  
  
• Norms and Logics
  Eugenio Bulygin
  
  
• A Dynamic Logic of Normative Systems
  Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Frederic Moisan, Nicolas Troquard
  
  
• Programming Norm Change
  Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer, Nick Tinnemeier.
  
  
• Engineering social order
  Castelfranchi
  
  
• On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design
  Y. Shoham, M. Tennenholtz
  
  
• Social Norms
  H. Peyton Young
  
  
• The expressive conception of norms: An impasse for the logic of norms
  Ota Weinberger
  
  
• Alternating-time Temporal Logic,
  Rajeev Alur, Thomas A. Henzinger, Orna Kupferman
  
  
• A modal logic for coalitional power in games.
  Marc Pauly.
  
  
• Verification and Implementation of Normative Behaviours in Multi-Agent Systems.
  Nils Bulling, Mehdi Dastani.
  
  
• Strategic Executions of Choreographed Timed Normative Multi-Agent Systems
  Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank de Boer, Mehdi Dastani.
  
  
• A Logic for Normative Multi-Agent Programs.
  Mehdi Dastani, Davide Grossi, John-Jules Meyer.
  
  
• On the Logic of Normative Systems
  Thomas Agotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Juan A.Rodrıguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Michael Wooldridge
  
  
• Mechanism Design: How to implement social goals
  Eric S. Maskin
  
  
• On the state of the art in game theory: An interview withj Robert Aumann
  Eric van Damme: interviewer