Ιntelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems

Professors George Vouros
Course category CSM/CAS
Course ID DS-520
Credits 5
Lecture hours 4 hours
Lab hours -
Digital resources View on Aristarchus (Open e-Class)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to know principles, paradigmatic architectures and methods for developing single agent and multi agent systems, have a critical and informed view of strengths and limitations regarding agents and multi agent systems, towards designing and delivering such systems.

Specifically, students know and acquire the abilities to develop:

  • Architectures of single and multi-agent systems
  • Methods for agents coordination, collaboration and competition in specific settings and paradigmatic environments and problems
  • Agents’ communication methods and protocols

Via the critical view of agents technology and experience in developing such systems.

Course Contents

  • Agents: Principles, architectures and application examples
  • Deliberation vs Reaction: Architectures
  • Mental attitudes, states and their representation
  • Multi-agent Systems: Interactions and dependencies
  • Multiagent organizations and communication
  • Cooperation and collaboration
  • Agents communication

Recommended Readings

  • Michael Wooldridge, Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, 2008.
  • Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Gerhard Weiss, Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 2000.
  • John Miller Scott Page, Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity), Princeton University Press, 2007.
  • David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press 2010.

Associated scientific Journals

  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer, ISSN: 1387-2532
  • IEEE Distributed Systems, ISSN: 1541-4922