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

## AWS references
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+ [Amazon Bedrock Agents](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/agents.html)
+ [Amazon Q Developer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/what-is.html)
+ [Strands Agents SDK](https://strandsagents.com/)

## Other references
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+ 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](https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/73/Papers/027B.pdf)
+ Lesser, Victor R., relevant publications ([see full list](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=izMnGyMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)):
  + 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](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\$1Communication\$1in\$1the\$1Service\$1of\$1Coordination/links/00b7d51cc2a0750cb4000000/Communication-in-the-Service-of-Coordination.pdf](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](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\$11.pdf](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](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](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\$110](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\$1Learning\$1Experiments\$1in\$1a\$1Heterogeneous\$1Multi-agent\$1System](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](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](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\$1files/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf](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/\$1motionplanning/papers/sbp\$1papers/integrated1/woodridge\$1intelligent\$1agents.pdf](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~motionplanning/papers/sbp_papers/integrated1/woodridge_intelligent_agents.pdf)