Author: Michael Wooldridge

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 2002

ISBN: 047149691X

Pages: ~340

Website: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/imas/

[NEM] A good introduction to [Intelligent Agents] and multi-agent systems,
including a favourable mention of Tcl and Agent Tcl as a good way of developing
''mobile'' agents (i.e., that can be sent across the internet).

[NEM] 2009-08-04: The second edition of this book has been published in 2009
[http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/imas/IMAS2e.html]. The brief (1 page) discussion
of [D'Agents (formerly Agent Tcl)] remains, and is still largely favourable:

''"In summary, Tcl and Tk provide a rich environment for building language-based
applications, particularly GUI-based ones. But they are not/were not intended as
agent programming environments. The core primitives may be used for building agent
programming environments - the source code is free, stable, well designed, and
easily modified. The Agent Tcl framework is one attempt to do this."''

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