Common approaches in MAS
Logic-based: Wooldridge 94, Rao and Georgeff 95, Halpern et al. 96.
Game-theoretic: Rosenschein and Zlotkin 94.
Decision-theoretic: Gmytrasiewicz and Durfee 95.
Truth maintenance (default-reasoning)-based: Mason and Johnson 89, Huhns and Bridgeland 91.
Distributed search-based: Yokoo et al. 92.