Course detail
Agents and Multiagent Systems
FIT-AGSAcad. year: 2017/2018
Concepts of artificial agent and multiagent systems, reactive and rational agents. The basic architectures of agent systems, layered architecture, subsumptional architecture. Agent's mental states, intentional systems and their models. BDI system architectures. Communication in multiagent systems, KQML and ACL languages, the basic interaction protocols. Physical and mental conflicts, general approaches to conflict solving, voting, negotiation and argumentation. Behavior coordination and methods for distributed planning. Social aspects in MAS, obligations and norms. FIPA abstract platform, agent's life cycle. Development and realization of multiagent systems, GAIA methodology and JADE implementation tool.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Programming of agent systems and heterogeneous systems with agents, creation of intelligent systems using multiagent methodology and resolving conflicts with these methods
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Course curriculum
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Introduction to distributed artificial intelligence. Concepts of agent, environment, agent classification.
- Fundamental architectures of reactive and deliberative agents. Situated automata, Subsumptional architecture.
- Formal approaches to the agent systems. Modal logics, Epistemic, Temporal, CTL and BDI logics.
- Rational agent, agent's mental states, IRMA, AgentSpeak(L), dMARS architectures.
- Agent Oriented Programming (AOP), system Agent-0
- Agent's programming in JASON
- Multiagent systems (MAS), general principles of cooperation and conflict solving, game theory for multiagent systems.
- Communication in MAS, KQML and ACL languages, interaction protocols.
- Negotiation, argumentation, voting. Algorithms, protocols and examples.
- FIPA abstract architecture. Programming in JADE
- Collaborative planning, mutual decisioning.
- MAS modelling. Agent's roles, AUML, GAIA, Prometheus.
- Realization of MAS for small devices, mobile agents and their security.
Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students:
Individual project - design of an agent / essay on agent-relating topic.
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- Mid-Term written test
- Individual project
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- Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's
branch MMI , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
branch MSK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MPV , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MIS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
branch MIN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch MGM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
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Syllabus
- Introduction to distributed artificial intelligence. Concepts of agent, environment, agent classification.
- Fundamental architectures of reactive and deliberative agents. Situated automata, Subsumptional architecture.
- Formal approaches to the agent systems. Modal logics, Epistemic, Temporal, CTL and BDI logics.
- Rational agent, agent's mental states, IRMA, AgentSpeak(L), dMARS architectures.
- Agent Oriented Programming (AOP), system Agent-0
- Agent's programming in JASON
- Multiagent systems (MAS), general principles of cooperation and conflict solving, game theory for multiagent systems.
- Communication in MAS, KQML and ACL languages, interaction protocols.
- Negotiation, argumentation, voting. Algorithms, protocols and examples.
- FIPA abstract architecture. Programming in JADE
- Collaborative planning, mutual decisioning.
- MAS modelling. Agent's roles, AUML, GAIA, Prometheus.
- Realization of MAS for small devices, mobile agents and their security.