Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents

This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI:
the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It
provides a framework for modelling      agents with planning and
communicative competence.
Important issues in   the book are:
- How to recognize and reconcile conflicting                           intentions
among a collection of agents.
- How to recognize and take      advantage of favorable
interactions.
- How to enable individual agents   to represent and reason
about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other      agents in
order to coordinate with them.
- When to call a set of plans   coordinated and what
operations are possible to transform uncoordinated      plans
into coordinated ones.
- How to enable agents to communicate and   interact: what
communication languages or protocols to use, and what            and
when to communicate.
The book is clearly written with many examples and
background material.