Resources

For more information about the concepts discussed in this guide, see the following guides and articles.

AWS references

• Amazon Bedrock Agents

• Amazon Q Developer

• Strands Agents SDK

Other references

• Hewitt, Carl, Peter Bishop, and Richard Steiger. "A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence." Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1973): 235-245. https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/73/Papers/027B.pdf

• Lesser, Victor R., relevant publications (see full list):

  • Lesser, Victor R. and Daniel D. Corkill. "Functionally Accurate, Cooperative Distributed Systems." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 11, no. 1 (1981): 81-96. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4308581

  • Decker, Keith S. and Victor R. Lesser. “Communication in the Service of Coordination.” AAAI Workshop on Planning for Interagent Communication (1994). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor-Lesser/publication/2768884_Communication_in_the_Service_of_Coordination/links/00b7d51cc2a0750cb4000000/Communication-in-the-Service-of-Coordination.pdf

  • Durfee, Edmund H., Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. "Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving." IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data Engineering (1989). http://mas.cs.umass.edu/Documents/ieee-tkde89.pdf

  • Durfee, Edmund H., V.R. Lesser, and D.D. Corkill, “Distributed Artificial Intelligence.” Cooperation Through Communication in a Distributed Problem Solving-Network (1987): 29-58. https://www.academia.edu/download/79885643/durf94_1.pdf

  • Lâasri, Brigitte, Hassan Lâasri, Susan Lander, and Victor Lesser. “A Generic Model for Intelligent Negotiating Agents.” International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 01, no. 02 (1992): 291-317. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218215792000210

  • Lander, Susan E. and Victor R. Lesser. “Understanding the Role of Negotiation in Distributed Search Among Heterogeneous Agents.” IJCAI'93: Proceedings of the 13th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence (1993): 438-444. https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/93-1/Papers/062.pdf

  • Lander, Susan, Victor R. Lesser, and Margaret E. Connell. “Conflict Resolution Strategies for Cooperating Expert Agents” CKBS'90: Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (October 1990): 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1831-2_10

  • Prasad, M.V. Nagendra, Victor Lesser, and Susan E. Lander. “Learning Experiments in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System.” IJCAI-95 Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multi-agent Systems (1995): 59-64. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2784280_Learning_Experiments_in_a_Heterogeneous_Multi-agent_System

• Nwana, Hyacinth S. "Software Agents: An Overview." Knowledge Engineering Review 11, no. 3 (October/November 1996): 205-244. https://teaching.shu.ac.uk/aces/rh1/elearning/multiagents/introduction/nwana.pdf

• Selfridge, Oliver G. "Pandemonium: A Paradigm for Learning." Mechanization of Thought Processes: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the National Physical Laboratory 1 (1959): 511–529. https://aitopics.org/download/classics:504E1BAC

• Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. "Attention Is All You Need." Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (2017): 5998-6008. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf

• Wooldridge, Michael and Nicholas R. Jennings. "Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice." Knowledge Engineering Review 10, no. 2 (January 1995): 115-152. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~motionplanning/papers/sbp_papers/integrated1/woodridge_intelligent_agents.pdf