Multi-Agent Systems Course

Course Schedule (PósAutomação/UFSC 2026-1)

Syllabus

Date	Topic
13/3	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)
20/3	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
27/3	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
10/4	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
17/4	Project	TBD
24/4	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
8/5	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
15/5		Seminars
22/5		Seminars
12/6	Environment	Advanced part (Slides)
19/6	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
26/6	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
3/7	Coordination	Reading: Coordination Infrastructures (Omicini et al)
		Reading: Teamwork (Choen et Levesque)
		Tutorial: Coordination with JaCaMo
	MAOP	Slides / JaCaMo
		Reading: On agent-based software engineering (Jennings)
		Reading: Multi-agent oriented programming (Boissier et al)
10/7		Project Presentation