Contact: Prof. Adina Magda Florea adina@wpi.edu
Number of students: 13
Department/ group: Computer Science Department
Course: Multi-Agent Systems (CS525M)
Website: ( http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs525m/s02/ )
Lecturer: Visiting Assoc. Prof. Adina Magda Florea
Duration: 42 hours
Contents:
1. Agent definitions and classification
2. Models of agency, architectures and languages
3. Communication and interaction protocols
4. Knowledge representation
5. Distributed planning
6. Coordination
7. Negotiation
8. Learning
9. Organizations
10. Agent platforms
11. Applications of MAS
Literature re commended to students?: "Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence." G. Weiss (Ed.), MIT Press, 1999
Part of a regular curriculum?: Yes
Offered by regular members of staff?: No
Average number and education level of students: 13 Graduate students
Is the material used public?: Yes
Number of Agent-related theses per year:
