hi there, im looking to undertake a project that will demonstrate seperate AI entities working together to achieve a certain task. I am thinking of having a maze and placing a number of 'bots' into it and they must work together to find a way out of the maze by each sharing their exploration information and devising exploration tactics between themselves(i.e. you go that way il go this way). i am relatively new to AI and was wondering if anybody knew of any good resources around this area of AI to look at or point me in the right direction. cheers.

Blackboards strike me as being something really practical for this type of situation-- I believe there's a fairly decent article on the subject right here on GameDev.