2-IKV-164 Multiagent Systems

Evaluation during the course: interim assessment of independent project

Concluding evaluation: final project assessment, exam

Subject aim: To provide knowledge about multiagent systems with emphasis on building systems with extremely complex behaviour and on modeling living systems

Brief curriculum of the subject:

Agent (narrower definition). Autonomness and mobility. Receptors, efectors, controller, sensors, actuators. Classifications of agents as reactive, deliberative and hybrid. Communicatin between agents: direct and indirect. Ontological problem and its solutions: XML a KIF.

Multiagent system (narrower definition). Communication and representation language. KQML.

Implementation of multigent systems. Classification into intelligent and software agents.

Multiagent system as middleware. Implementation on SRR model. Pyramidal architecture Client - Server. Architekture Agent-Space. Robustness, decentralization, normalization.

Deliberative and nondeliberative robotics. New artificial intelligence. Dekomposition by function and by activity. Subsumption architecture. PKA model.

Literature:

http://www.microstep-mis.sk/~andy

J. Kelemen: Strojovia a agenty, Archa, Bratislava, 1993

N. J. Nilson: Artificial Intelligence, A new synthesis, Morgan Kaufman Publishers Inc., San Francisco, Ca, 1997

R. Brooks: Cambrian Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1999

A. Kubík: Multiagentové systémy, Silesian University, Opava, 2000

Language in which the subject is taught: Slovak, English

Date of the last sheet revision: 5.6.2007