This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. Itprovides a framework for modelling agents with planning andcommunicative competence.Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentionsamong a collection of agents.- How to recognize and take advantage of favorableinteractions.- How to enable individual agents to represent and reasonabout the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents inorder to coordinate with them.- When to call a set of plans coordinated and whatoperations are possible to...