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Agents are many things to many people. This is not a sound basis for engineering software agents or multiagent systems. Since this book deals with engineering such systems, the first thing to do is to agree on the notion of software agent that is to be used throughout the book. The approach will be in terms of the qualitative properties that are deemed essential or at least important.
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Ferber, J.: Multi-agent Systems-An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1999.
Weiss, G. (Ed.): Multiagent Systems — A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Wooldridge, M. J.: An Introduction to Multiagent Systems. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.
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Lockemann, P.C. (2006). Agents. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_2
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