Multiagent Systems

Multiagent systems offer tremendous opportunities for development in computing and its applications. The objective of this book is to identify preliminary requirements and fundamental issues related to multiagent systems. The book is a comprehensive volume on the subject.

MagdiSadek Mahmoud obtained PhD. in systems engineering from Cairo University in 1974. He has been a professor of engineering since 1984 and he is now Distinguished Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He served on the faculty at universities worldwide: Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK (Kent, UCL), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal), and China (BIT, Yanshan). Dr. Mahmoud is the principal author of 30 books, 25 book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of two national, one regional and several university prizes for outstanding research in engineering and applied mathematics.

Preface. Introduction. Theoretical Background. Distributed Intelligence in Power Systems. Consensus for Heterogeneous Systems with Delays. Secure Control of Distributed Multiagent Systems. Advanced Consensus Algorithms. Cooperative Control of Networked Power Systems. Dynamic Graphical Games. References. Index.