Artificial Intelligence 2

The course is a substitute for:

Artificial Intelligence 2 (XE33UI2)

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Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

The core topic of this lecture is building distributed systems as communities of autonomous intelligent agents. Methods and techniques for communication, coordination and cooperation among agents will be presented. The methods of planning in environments with different complexity as well as knowledge acquisition methods based on machine learning principles will be studied. Algorithmic complexity of the AI tasks will be analyzed.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Abstract architecture of agent, properites of agents, multi-agent systems

2. Reactive agents, subsumption architecture, examples

3. Intentional agent: theoretically vs. practically reasoning agents

4. Planning agent: linear and nonlinear planning in MAS

5.Integration architectures: interoperability, MAS development, FIPA, JADE

6. Distributed decision making (i): utilities, preferences, stability, voting

7. Distributed decision making (ii): auctions, negotiation, coalitions, teamwork

8. Social models, meta-agents, meta-reasoning and monitoring

9. Agent technologies applications, holonic systems

10.Formal models of agency, logics

11.Artificial life

12.Complexity of problems, np-completeness

13.Agents decision making complexities

14.Philosophy of artificial inteligence

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction to lisp

2. Programming in lisp

3. Homework 1

4. Homework 1, deadline for the homework 1 submission (10 pts)

5. JADE programming tutorial

6. JADE programming tutorial

7. JADE programming tutorial

8. Agent exchange platfrom tutorial

9. Homework 2

10.Homework 2

11.Homework 2

12.Homework 2

13.Deadline for the homework 2 submission (20 pts)

14.Demonstration, faq

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Boden, M.A. (ed.): The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990

[2] Jennings, N., Wooldridge, M.: Agent Technology. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: