Learning outcomes

The goal of the course is to introduce the participants to principles of software agents. After taking this course the student is familiar with the possibilities of agent technology, solutions for implementation, and can evaluate the suitability of agent technology in a given design problem.

Contents

The course is an introduction to software agent technology. The topics contain software agents (different definitions, architectures, and agent programming languages), agent-to-agent communication, platforms for software agents, ontologies, and applications of software agents.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	26 h	0 h

Guidance for paper writing.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

4. year spring

Advanced level (3.-4. year). The course is not lectured every year.

Study materials

1. Lecture notes, selected journal articles and conference papers.

Further information

A student who already has credits from the course Software Agents cannot get credits from this course.

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