Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers

University Politehnica Bucharest Department of Computer Science Course in Artificial Intelligence Master Multi-Agent Systems Spring 2011

Course information

Professor: Adina Magda Florea

Email: adina@cs.pub.ro                                         

Teaching assistants: Serban Radu, Andrei Mogos

Email: serbanradu@hotmail.com, andrei.mogos@cs.pub.ro,

                                                              Artificial Intelligence Master

Course description

 

 

 

 

Course details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grading

Mid-term exam - 30%

Final exam - 20%

Course activity - 10%

Projects - 20%

Laboratory - 20%

 

Requirements for completing the course

 

Minimum 7 laboratory attendances and minimum 50% of term activity (from mid-term exam, projects and lab).

 

 

Course materials

 

A. Florea. Course slides

 

Web Resources

 

Must read papers

AAAI about MAS

Other resources

 

 

 

The course offers theoretical and practical knowledge about intelligent agents, multi-agent systems and the development of complex, distributed applications, based on intelligent agents, including multi-agent systems for task planning, resource allocation, e-commerce, personal assistants, agents in Internet. Main subjects: types of agents, multi-agent systems architectures, agent reasoning and behavior, distributed search techniques, multi-agent distributed planning, coordination mechanisms, negotiation techniques, communication languages and protocols, multi-agent learning, agent oriented programming, and methods to develop applications using agent technology.