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Multi Agent Systems

-an introduction-

Content

• What is an agent?
• Communication
• Ontologies
• Mobility
• Mutability
• Applications

Definition…

An autonomous agent is a system situated within and part of an environment that senses that environment and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda and so as to effect what it senses in the future. Franklin and Graesser: Is it an agent or just a program?

• Simpler: agents are autonomous programs

Coming from AI…

• Expert systems in the 1980’s did not prove commercially successful: too ambitious, too early
• Agents provide a way to use limited amount of intelligence to achieve useful goals
• Russell & Norvig: Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach - Modern = Agent based

Coming from Client-Server

computing…

• Client originates requests, server responds
• The model is too simple, many times we need active components, e.g. for monitoring
• Enterprise Java Beans actively discourage beans with threads - They have their reasons, but limits functionality - There are workarounds but will need to be handled at the standards level

People also come from:

• Business:
  • Agents seen as economic entities
• Sociology
  • Social models of agent
  • Agent models of the society
• Phychology:
  • Behavior patterns
• User Interaction Design
• Philosophy
• …Lots of sources of confusion.

EEL 5937 – Practice and theory of

multi-agent systems

• Practice…: We will learn how to write agents
• Theory…: We will learn the basics behind the agent systems.
• Topics covered
  • Behaviors, strategies, reactive and planned behavior
  • Belief-Desire-Intention models
  • Communication, messaging, speech act theory
  • Mobility
  • Mutability Docsity.com

Contact info

• Instructor: Lotzi Bölöni ENG 444
  • E-mail: [email protected]
  • Webpage: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~lboloni/
• Course webpage:
  • http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/EEL5937_2006/
• FEEDS Video stream:
  • Link from the course webpage

The project

• Software project:
  • Groups of 1-4 people.
  • A software project on applications of multi agent systems.
  • Projects from the previous class
    • http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~lboloni/Teaching/EEL5937_Mu ltiAgentSystems_Spring2003/Projects.html
  • You are encouraged to propose your own project.
  • Teams should schedule a design meeting with the prof.
• Literature research project Docsity.com