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 13:00 - 14:00 or by appointment
Lectures: TR 15:30 - 16:45 in MS 527

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:

Oct 31, 2011		Course web site alive. TA information on materials page can only be updated in new year. This also applies to most of ARES information.
Oct 26, 2011		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.

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Last Change: 31/10/2011