Decentralized and Multi-Agent Systems

 

Guarantee:    Prof. RNDr. Jozef Kelemen, DrSc.

 

Goal:

 

The goal of the course is to make the students familiar with the most actual trends, practical experiences, and theoretical achievments of the field of researcjh and applications of decentralized multi-agent systems on the level enabling the deeper study of the field by the students.

 

Syllabus:

 

1.      The traditional view of the Artificial Intellignece based on  the idea of deliberation of   

 rational agents.

      2.   The new view of the agents based on the idea of their reaktivity.

3.      A unified approach to traditional, and new Artificial Intellligence.

4.      The overview of the existing approaches to the topic of decentralized and multi-sagent systems.

5.      Detailed explanation of some selected approaches guided esp. by their moitvations and applications.

6.      Formalization of some selected approaches and the theoretically achieved results.

 

Literature:

 

1.      Brenner, W., Zarnekow, R., Wittig, H.: Intelligent Software Agents. Springer, 1999

2.      Ferber, J.: Multi-Agent Systems : An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1999

3.      Huhns,M.N., Singh,M.P.: Readings in Agents. Morgan Kaufmann 1997

4.      Jennings,N.R., Wooldridge,M.J.: Agent Technology. Springer-Verlag, 1998

5.      Kirn, S., O’Hare,G. (eds.): Cooperative Knowledge Processing. Springer-Verlag, London, 1997

6.      Kubik, A.:Inteligentní agenty. Computer Press, 2004

7.      Murch,R., Johnson,T.: Intelligent Software Agents. Prentice-Hall, 1999

8.      Nilsson,N.J.: Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis. Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

9.      Russel,S., Norvig, P.: Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, 1995

10.  Weiss, G. (Ed.): Multiagent Systems. The MIT Press, 1999