Front Cover; Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Orientation; Chapter 1. An Analysis of Problems and Research in DAI; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Description, Decomposition, Distribution, and Allocation of Tasks; 1.3 Interaction, Language, and Communication; 1.4 Coherence and Coordination; 1.5 Modeling Other Agents and Organized Activity; 1.6 Interagent Disparities: Uncertainty and Conflict; 1.7 Tools for Distributed Artificial Intelligence; 1.8 Open Problems

Chapter 2. A Subject-Indexed Bibliography of Distributed Artificial IntelligenceBibliography; Part II. Basic DAI Problems and Approaches; Chapter 3. Distribution and Task Allocation; 3.1 Frameworks for Cooperation in Distributed Problem Solving; 3.2 Network Structures for Distributed Situation Assessment; 3.3 ARCHITECTURES FOR DISTRIBUTEDAIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; 3.4 STRATEGIES OF COOPERATION IN DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; 3.5 Parallelism in Artificial Intelligence Problem Solving: A Case Study of Hearsay II; 3.6 Distributed Interpretation: A Model and Experiment

3.7 An Organizational View of Distributed Systems3.8 MODELING COORDINATION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS; Chapter 4. Coherence and Coordination; 4.1 Reasoning about Agents' Knowledge and Behavior; 4.2 Reasoning about Collective Processes; 4.3 Achieving Coherence by Resolving Disparities and Uncertainty; Chapter 5. Interaction Languages, Structures and Protocols; 5.1 Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving; 5.2 The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver; 5.3 Multistage Negotiationin Distributed Planning

5.4 Dialogue-Games: Metacommunication Structures for Natural Language Interaction5.5 Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism; 5.6 Control of Processes by Communication over Ports as a Paradigm for Distributed Knowledge-Based System Design; Part III. Implementation Frameworks and DAI Applications; Chapter 6. Implementation Languages and Systems; 6.1 AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS; 6.2 Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming in ABCL/1; 6.3 Implementing Distributed AI Systems Using MACE

6.4 A Software and Hardware Environment for Developing AI Applications on Parallel Processors6.5 ABE: A COOPERATIVE OPERATING SYSTEM AND DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; 6.6 Modeling and Diagnosing Problem-Solving System Behavior; Chapter 7. Blackboard Structures; 7.1 A Blackboard Architecture for Control; 7.2 Achieving Flexibility, Efficiency, and Generality in Blackboard Architectures; 7.3 COPS: A System For Constructing Multiple Blackboards; 7.4 TRANSACTIONAL BLACKBOARDS; Chapter 8. Example Applications of DAI; 8.1 An Intelligent System for Document Retrieval in Distributed Office Environments