Course Instructor: Adina Florea, Andrei Olaru

Syllabus:

The course is presenting theoretical and practical knowledge about intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

It contains: classification of agents and presentation of the various types of agents, multi-agent systems and architectures, reasoning methods for intelligent agents, coordination mechanisms, techniques for distributed search, distributed multiagent planning, negotiation techniques, inter-agent communication languages and protocols, agent-oriented programming and methods for developing applications using multi-agent technologies.

Application hours focus on designing and development of applications using intelligent agents, including personal and Internet agents, building multi-agent systems and developing applications using multi-agent systems.