CS 6804: Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems

Agent Systems

Agent systems are a relatively new sub-field of computer science – they have only been studied since about 1980, and the field has only gained widespread recognition since about the mid-1990s. Agent systems seem to be a natural metaphor for understanding and building loosely coupled software. The ideas of agent systems are not tied to a single application domain, but, like objects before them, seem to find currency in a host of different application domains.

Textbook(Tb): “Developing multi-agent systems with JADE” By Bellifemine F., Caire G., and Greenwood D., Wiley, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-470-05747-6

Week	Topic	Lecture Slides/Web site	Textbook (Tb)	In-class: Ch companion material Discussions/Paper Presentations
8/24	Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, FIPA	lecture01.ppt DLNETagents.ppt Tch2.pdf	Tb Ch1 Tb Ch2	Downloading Prometheus* and JADE **
8/31	Intro JADE Overview of Prometheus Methodology	JADE.ppt PromTool.pdf	Tb Ch3	Ch3 companion material Project description Tutorial (Meteorology Example)
9/14	System Specification Programming with JADE	lecture3.pdf lecture3A.pdf lecture04.ppt	Tb Ch4	Ch4 companion material Design and JAVA stud paper presentations System Specification (Meteorology Example, Project)
9/21	Specifying the Agent Types Programming with JADE	lecture05.ppt		Programming JAVA stud paper presentations Specifying Agent Types (Meteorology Example, Project)
9/28	Specifying the Interactions, Ontology Agent Mobility	lecture06.ppt TbCh5.pdf	Tb Ch5	Specifying Agent Types (project) Ch5 companion material stud paper presentation (Mike) (Meteorology Example, Project)
10/5	Finalizing the Architectural Design Agents, Capabilities and Processes	lecture07.ppt lecture08.ppt	Tb Ch6	Specifying Interactions (Meteorology Example, Project) Agent- Web Services Integration stud paper presentation (Iman) Project ontology discussion
10/12	Capabilities, Plans and Events Jade Internal Architecture Jade Web Services Integration Gateway	lecture09.ppt lecture10.ppt	Tb Ch7 Tb 10	Ch7 companion material Agent Capabilities and Processes (Meteorology Example, Project) Project Detail Design discussion
10/26	Running Jade agents on Mobile Devices Replication Services		Tb Ch8-9	Ch8-9 companion material (Meteorology Example, Project) Project coding status reports: min. 2 agent implementation; one reasoning, other knowledge source, agent interaction using ontology)
11/2	Agent Society Jade Semantics Framework	Ch11and12	Tb Ch11-12	Ch11-12 companion material Kbase DegreeRequirementAgent Project coding discussions
11/9	BDI model, Implementing BDI (JACK)***	bdilogic.pdf		Jack discussion Project coding discussions
11/16	AgentSpeak, Jason programming language,	JasonReason.pdf
11/30	Project Presentations			Final running program demonstrations and delivery of design documentation

* Prometheus Modeling Tool can be downloaded from: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/pdt/

**Jade can be downloaded from: http://jade.tilab.com/

*** Jack IDE can be downloaded from: http://www.agent-software.com/shared/extrafiles/regform.html

Grade: In-class Presentation: 25%, Class Participation 10%, and Final Project&Presentation: 65%

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