CPSC 567: Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems - General Information

Instructor:

Jörg Denzinger
Email: denzinge@cpsc.ucalgary.ca	Phone: (403) 220-5574
Office: ICT 752	Office hours: TR 14:00 - 15:00 or by appointment
Lectures: TR 15:30 - 16:45 in MS 319

General Remarks:

This course shares lectures and some assignments with the basic graduate course on Multi-Agent Systems, CPSC 609. Please make sure that your are not confusing the different assignment and assessment schemes!

News:

Mar 31, 2009:		Here are the time slots I have available for the oral exams. Please email me at least 3 slots (and your ranking of them) that work for you and do this before April 2, because then I will have to allow the graduate students to start picking slots! Available slots (start times): Apr. 20: 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Apr. 21: 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Apr. 22: 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Apr. 23: 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Apr. 24: 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00
Dec 17, 2008:		Course web site started.

Description of the course

The course covers the following topics:
Modeling of agents; properties of multi-agent systems; communication between agents; interaction and cooperation concepts; forming and maintaining organizations; competitive agent environments; learning in multi-agent systems; example systems.

The prerequisites for this course are CPSC 457, the basic course on Operating Systems (why should become clear during the course) and CPSC 433, the basic course on Artificial Intelligence.

to an explanation of the assessment of the students taking the course.

Last Change: 31/3/2009