General Resources

Books and sources of papers on agents

Multiagent Systems, second edition Edited by Gerhard Weiss, MIT.
Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise Multidisciplinary Introduction by Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham, 2008.
Handbook of computational social choice by Felix Brandt, Vincent Conitzer, Ulle Endriss, Jerome Lang, and Ariel D. Procaccia. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Fundamentals of Multiagent Systems with NetLogo Examples by Jose Vidal, 2010 (available on line)
The ACM Digital Library has a huge searchable collection of papers. To be able to read the papers you have to access it from an on-campus computer or go through the UofM Library Indexes and Database page. Same for the IEEE Explore. To read the papers you have to access it from an on campus computer or through the University Library.
JAIR, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, is a high-quality journal published on-line. Look for it at: http://www.jair.org

Sources of information on agents

Agent-based models has pointers (under ABM Resources) to a large collection of information on agents, including software, models, publications, groups, etc.
AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing has numerous pointers to papers, software, and other activities.
An extensive searchable bibliography on AI, Agents, etc It does not include the papers, just the references.
Intelliwise has a large collection of pointers to links about AI, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience. It includes some papers on line, and pointers to repositories of papers, PhD dissertations, on-line proceedings. The organization is not the best, but if you browse to it, you can find useful pointers.
The On-Line Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences has a collection of papers from the social science/economics community.

Software for agents

An extensive list of simulators for agent-based simulation and many other resources.
Survey of Agent Based Modelling and Simulation Tools, by Rob Allan. A recent unpublished survey that lists a large number of tools and software packages for agent-based mdeling and simulation.
FIPA-OS Agent Toolkit, a component-based toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPA compliant agents. FIPA-OS is implemented in Java. The developmemt seems to have stopped in 2001.
FIPA is now a standards group within IEEE.
Gambit is a collection of software tools for building and analyzing extensive and normal form games. Gambit has a graphical user interface, a Python API and command line tools. Gambit is free, licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.
Gamut is a suite of game generators designated for testing game-theoretic algorithms. It is designed to work with Gambit.
Jade. JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) is a software framework to develop agent-based applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications.
Jason is an interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak, a BDI agent-oriented logic programming language, and is implemented in Java. More details at the Jason web site.
JATLite JATLite is one of the first toolkits that have been developed for agents. It supports agents communications in KQML.
Matlab can be used to develop agent software. For optimization, the free Matlab toolbox OPTI supports Windows users in constructing and solving linear, nonlinear, continuous and discrete optimization problems.
"NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena.
Repast is a collection of open source agent-based modeling and simulation platforms. ReLogo is a simple system modeled after Logo, Repast Simphony is a more sophisticated Java-based implementation. A study guide for Java-based Repast.
SPARK (SRI Procedural Agent Realization Kit), toolkit from SRI. Used to implement CALO.
"StarLogo is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems -- systems that are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. With StarLogo, you can model (and gain insights into) many real-life phenomena, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, ant colonies, and market economies."
"Swarm is a software package for useful tool for researchers in a variety of disciplines. The basic architecture of Swarm is the simulation of collections of concurrently interacting agents: with this architecture, we can implement a large variety of agent based models."
RANA is a real-time broadcasting simulation framework for agents with a visualization interface.

Robotics simulators

Look at http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/ for the Player/Stage/Gazebo software. The software is used by a large community and actively supported. Player provides a network interface to robots and sensors. Robot control programs can be written in any programming language and to run on the robot or in simulation. Stage simulates mobile robots moving and sensing in a two-dimensional bitmapped environment. Gazebo simulates robots in 3D.
The best robot simulator is Webots ( https://www.cyberbotics.com/index). It is a commercial product but you can download it for free for a month. It is well supported, has a lot of robot models, and is much simpler to use that player/stage.
Another alternative is MORSE ( https://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/), a public domain simulator built on top of Blender, an open source for 3D modeling. MORSE runs under linux. We have used it for a project and have some information and examples at (a href="http://robogame.cs.umn.edu/">http://robogame.cs.umn.edu/).
"USARSim is a high-fidelity simulation of urban search and rescue (USAR) robots and environments based on the Unreal Tournament game engine. It is intended as a research tool and is the basis for the RoboCup USAR simulation competition." Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/usarsim Additional material at http://usarsim.sourceforge.net/
Webots is a powerful development environment to simulate a large number of robots. A free 30 days trial version can be downloaded.