lecturer: Javier
Vázquez Salceda
schedule:
Friday, 16:00h-19:00h
location:
A5 102 (Campus Nord UPC, A5 building, second floor, room 102).
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Course contents 2023-2024
(subject to change)
0. Course Presentation
1. Introduction
- Contents:
- Origins
- Agent types
- Agent Architectures
- Deliberative Architectures
- Reactive Architectures
- [slides] Introduction
to Multiagent Systems
- Recommended readings (about agents):
- Recommended readings (about Artificial Intelligence):
2. Reasoning in Agents
3. Multiagent Systems Design
- Contents:
- Introduction to Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methodologies.
- GAIA methodology
- Prometheus methodology
- [slides] Part
1: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. The GAIA Methodology
- [slides] Part
2: The Prometheus Methodology
- [slides] Part
3: Design tips and good practices [NEW!!]
- Recommended readings:
- N. Jennings, M. Wooldridge "Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering "
- [GAIA v.1] M. Wooldridge, N. Jennings, D. Kinny. "The
GAIA methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design"
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (3)
3, pp. 285-312. Kluwer 2000.
- [GAIA v.2] F. Zambonelli, M. Wooldridge, N. Jennings.
"Developing
Multiagent Systems: The Gaia Methodology" ACM
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology,
Vol. 12, No. 3, July 2003.
- L. Padgham, M. Winikoff. "Prometheus:
A Pragmatic Methodology for Engineering Intelligent Agents".
4. Coordination and Social Models
- Contents:
- Introduction to Coordination.
- Coordination Models (I). Social Models
- Reputation and Trust. Social Roles.
- Electronic Organizations
- Electronic Institutions
- Coordination Models (II): Non-social models
- Explicit Coordination
- Implicit Coordination
- [slides] Part
1: Introduction to Coordination.
- [slides] Part
2: Trust and Reputation
- [slides] Part
3: Social Models. Electronic Organizations [UPDATED!!]
- [slides] Part
4: Electronic Institutions
- Recommended readings:
- S. Willmott. "Coordination and Organisation”
Appendix B Chapter from his PhD Thesis, EPFL, 2006.
- J. Sabater I Mir. “Trust
and reputation for agent societies”
PhD Thesis, CSIC, 2003.
- L. Mui, "Computational
Models of Trust and Reputation: Agents, Evolutionary Games,
and Social Networks”.
PhD Thesis, Massachusets Institute of Technology, 2002.
- V. Dignum. "A
model for organizational interaction: based on agents,
founded in logic".
PhD Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht, 2003.
- J. Vázquez Salceda. “The Role of Norms
and Electronic Institutions in Multiagent Systems”
Birkhauser-Verlag, 2004.
Original document (PhD Thesis) available on-line [zipped
Postcript document]
- S. Alvarez-Napagao. "Bringing Social Reality to Multiagent and Service Architectures. Practical reductions for monitoring of Deontic-Logic and Constitutive Norms".
PhD Thesis, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH, 2016.
5. Situated Agents (robots)
- Contents:
- Perception Problems
- Problems on action execution
- Situated Agents’ Architectures
- Reactive Architectures
- Deliberative Architectures
- Hybrid Architectures
- Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty
- Planning and Uncertainty
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Recommended readings:
- Wikipedia Portal: Artificial Intelligence - Robotics
6. Other applications
- Contents:
- Distributed eBusiness Applications
- Interacting with humans
- Adjustable Autonomy
- User Modelling
- Agent-Based Social Simulations
- Multiagent Sistems for videogames
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