DISTRIBUTED AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
cod. 18302

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni (ING-INF/05)
Field
Ingegneria informatica
Type of training activity
Characterising
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The goal of the course is to provide a in-depth knowledge on the “peer-to-peer” and agent-oriented programming techniques and about their use to realize distributed software systems.

Prerequisites

The topics of the courses: Ingegneria del Software A, Reti di Calcolatori, Basi di Dati and Ingegneria del Software B are prelimimary to the topics presented in this course.

Course unit content

<br />Introduction. Peer-to-peer systems. Agents and multi-agent systems. FIPA and JADE. Agent architectures and models. Communication and interaction protocols. Ontology. Coordination and negotiation. Design and implementation of multi-agent systems. Applications.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Michael Wooldridge. An Introduction to Multiagent Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England, (ISBN 0 47149691X) 2002.

Teaching methods

The course is based on theoretical lectures and on lab activities. Students evaluation is based on a theoretical test and a practical test.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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