Book review: Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Ed by A. H. Bond and L. Gasser (Morgan Kaufmann, 1988)

  • Authors:

  • H. Van Dyke Parunak

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial Technology Institute

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

New sciences often begin as cliques of closely-coupled researchers. Precisely because the work is new, there are no journals focused on it, and the growing body of insights appears in privately circulated working papers and publications in the organs of disciplines only tangentially related to the central focus of the emerging field. This process has several results.