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Multiagent Sytems

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 460-4114/01
Abbreviation MAS
Course title Multiagent Sytems
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator Mgr. Marek Menšík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Introduction to multiagent systems, agents' architecture, no central dispatcher
2. Behaviour vs. planning.
3. Reactive agents; Agents' learning and reasoning.
4. Deliberation, theory of BDI, IRMA (intelligent resource-bounded machine architecture), PRS (procedural reasoning system).
5. Agents' interactions, distributed artificial intelligence
6. Experiments: emergent behaviour of agents
7. Reactive communication with environment, standards of agents’ behavior.
8. Agents' cooperation, table method, negotiation, messaging.
9. Decentralized problem solving
10. Agents' Ontologies and knowledge bases
11. Communication in MAS, communication languages.
12. Indirect communication.

Exercisez:
1. Introduction to multiagent systems, agents' architecture, no central dispatcher
2. Behaviour vs. planning.
3. Reactive agents; Agents' learning and reasoning.
4. Deliberation, theory of BDI, IRMA (intelligent resource-bounded machine architecture), PRS (procedural reasoning system).
5. Agents' interactions, distributed artificial intelligence
6. Experiments: emergent behaviour of agents
7. Reactive communication with environment, standards of agents’ behavior.
8. Agents' cooperation, table method, negotiation, messaging.
9. Decentralized problem solving.
10. Ontologies and knowledge bases.
11. Indirect communication.
12. Languages for communication in multiagent systems.

Literature

1. Wooldridge, M.:An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, Wiley, 2009, ISBN:978-0470519462 
2. Schwartz, H. M.: Multi-Agent Machine Learning: A Reinforcement Approach, Wiley, 2014, ISBN: 978-1118362082 

Advised literature

1. Lewis, Zhang, Hengster-Movric, Das.:Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Optimal and Adaptive Design Approaches (Communications and Control Engineering), Springer, 2014, 978-1447155737