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- Precise dates will be announced soon: please check back this
homepage. Tentative Dates are sessions in the morning, 10--11.30 am.
In each week we'll have five sessions (August. 5-16).
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Multi Agent Systems
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Research in "Multi-Agents" is a still growing area which adresses the need to
move from the development of massive programs containing millions of lines of
code, to smaller, modular, pieces of code, where each module performs a well
defined, focused task (rather than thousands of them). "Software agents"
constitute the latest innovation in this trend towards splitting complex
software systems into components.
Although there have been developed in
the last years a huge variety of techniques and methods related to agents, a
well-defined theoretical foundation unifying the different facets under one
umbrella is still missing.
We will try to give in the second week of our
course a rough picture of what the IMPACT (Interactive Maryland Platform of
Agents Collaborating Together) approach consists of. In particular, we will give
detailed and precise answers to the following important questions:
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| What is an agent?
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| If program P is not considered to be an agent,
how can it be "agentised"?
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| What kind of software infrastructure is
required for multiple agents to interact with one another?
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Overview |
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In the first week we are giving a general introduction to Multi-Agent
Systems, mostly based on material in the book Multiagent
Systems of Gerhard Weiss (MIT Press, 1999). We have 5 talks splitted in 4
chapters.
In the second week we focus on the IMPACT approach, based on the book Heterogeneous
Agent Systems of Subrahmanian/Bonatti/Dix/Eiter/Kraus/Ozcan/Ross, MIT
Press, 2000. We are giving theoretical foundations as well as various demos of
implemented applications.
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Here are two interesting links: |
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General Agent Systems: Agentlink Net
IMPACT: IMPACT
Here is the current version of the
slides.
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