Multi-Agent Systems Course

Course Schedule (PósAutomação/UFSC 2024-2)

Syllabus

Date	Topic
22/8	Introduction	Slides
		Reading: Chapter 2 of MAOP book
		Reading: AgentLink Roadmap
	Agents	Reading: Intelligent Agents (Wooldridge)
		Reading: Agent definition vs test (Huhns & Singh) (2 pages)
29/8	AOP	Tutorial: JaCaMo getting started: Chapter 3 of MAOP Book
		(optional: Jason Getting Started)
		Reading: Chapter 4 of MAOP book
		Reading: Review AOP (Cardoso et al)
		Exercise: EASSS Lab 1
		Slides / Jason
5/9	Communication	Reading: Speech Acts (Searle)
		Reading: Speech Acts in AOP (Renata Vieira et al)
		Reading: Sections 7.1 and 7.2 of MAOP book
		Exercise: EASSS Lab 2
12/9	Environment	Slides / CArtAgO
		Reading: Chapters 3, 5, 6, and Section 7.3 of MAOP book
		Reading: Environment programming (Ricci et al)
		Exercise: EASSS Lab 3
19,26/9	Project	Project Description
		Reading: Web Of Things, focus on Sect. 6
		Reading: Thing Description
3,10/10	Project	Knowledge Graphs
		Reading: Resource Description Framework (RDF)
17/10	BDI	Reading: Intention is Choice with Commitment (Cohen et al)
		Reading: Two Faces of Intention (Bratman)
		Reading: Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning (Bratman et al)
		Reading: Reactive Reasoning and Planning (Georgeff)
		Reading: Languages for BDI (Mascardi et al)
		Tutorial: Jason Hello BDI
		Tutorial: Gold Miners
		Documentation: Jason Programming Patterns
24/10	Communication	JADE Slides and Example of programs (Maicon)
		Reading: Developing MAS FIPA-compliant (Bellifemine et al)
		Reading: JADE white paper (Bellifemine et al)
		Tutorial: Jason + Jade
		Download: program that starts several Jade agents
31/10	Environment	Advanced part (Slides)
7/11	Organisation	Slides / Moise
		Reading: Chapters 8 and 9 of MAOP book
		Reading: Moise Model (Hubner et al)
		Reading: ORA4MAS
		Tutorial: JaCaMo Hello World
		Exercise: EASSS Lab 4
14/11	Norms	Slides / NPL
		Reading: Introduction to NorMAS (Boella et al)
		Reading: Norms in MAS (Balke et al)
		Reading: Survey (Mahmoud et al)
		Reading: Normative Programming Language used in JaCaMo
21/11	Coordination	Reading: Coordination Infrastructures (Omicini et al)
		Reading: Teamwork (Choen et Levesque)
		Tutorial: Coordination with JaCaMo
extra	MAOP	Slides / JaCaMo
		Reading: On agent-based software engineering (Jennings)
		Reading: Multi-agent oriented programming (Boissier et al)
28/11		Seminars
5/12		Seminars
12/12		Project Presentation