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Agents courses and seminars
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MAS course at QMW
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Graem A. Ringwood & Dr Matthew Huntbach of Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London, have developed a course on Multi-Agent
Systems . The course objective is to enable he student to design
and build a multi-agent system as a third semester project.
Description: "Conventional AI systems such, as expert systems, are
closed systems in that they make decisions with minimal external
input. These systems fail miserably when presented with problems
outside their limited field of expertise. The traditional answer from
AI is to propose new forms of knowledge representation and/or to
accumulate vast quantities of common sense knowledge in one
system. The new frontier Multi-agent Systems (MAS), proposes an open
systems approach by building societies of agents (herds of robots) for
which the whole is more than the sum of the parts. Whereas
conventional AI draws its inspiration from neurophysiology, psychology
and mathematical logic, MAS has sociology, anthropology, economics,
operations research, control theory, systems science and management
science as additional metaphors. ... The course is divided into two
parts, micro and macro-theories. The first part of the course focuses
on micro-systems: the architecture of an individual agent and how it
makes decisions. This part of the course will draw heavily on the
essential text. This text provides good support for those with little
background in AI. The second part of the course is about
macro-systems, where the concern is interagent dynamics. This part of
the course will work from the research papers cited below."
8/30/96
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UCLA short course on intelligent software agents
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UCLA short course on Intelligent Software
Agents, October 23-25, 1996, $1395. The instructors are Cindy
Mason, PhD, UC Berkeley Institute for Soft Computing; Jeffrey
M. Bradshaw, PhD, Boeing Computer Services; Henry Lieberman, PhD, MIT
Media Laboratory; and Ted Selker, PhD, IBM Almaden Research Center.
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U of M CSci
8599: Intelligent Software Agents
- A seminar offered in the Spring of 1995 by Maria Gini
(gini@cs.umn.edu). Course Objectives: "We will examine current
developments in intelligent software agents. The study of agents
presents a unique opportunity to integrate results from many diverse
areas of research, such as Artificial Intelligence, robotics,
knowledge representation, planning, machine learning, distributed sys-
tems, software engineering, and human-computer interaction."
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