This exciting and pioneering new overview of multiagent systems, which are online systems composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents, i.e., online trading, offers a newly seen computer science perspective on multiagent systems, while integrating ideas from operations research, game theory, economics, logic, and even philosophy and linguistics. The authors emphasize foundations to create a broad and rigorous treatment of their subject, with thorough presentations of distributed problem solving, game theory, multiagent communication and learning, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, cooperative game theory, and modal logics of knowledge and belief.

多智能体系统是由多个相互作用的智能体（即在线交易）组成的在线系统，这一激动人心且开创性的新概述为多智能体系统提供了一个全新的计算机科学视角，同时整合了运筹学、博弈论、经济学、逻辑学和，甚至哲学和语言学。作者强调基础，以创建一个广泛和严格的处理他们的主题，与分布式问题解决，博弈论，多智能体通信和学习，社会选择，机制设计，拍卖，合作博弈论，知识和信仰的模态逻辑的透彻介绍。