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
Modes of study
Weekly tasks and a paper.
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
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.