OUBE 626 Multiagent Systems

Spring 2013

Instructor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Geylani KARDAŞ (geylani.kardas@ege.edu.tr)

Assistant: Moharram Challenger (moharram.challenger@mail.ege.edu.tr)

Cihat Çetinkaya (cihat.cetinkaya@ege.edu.tr)

Time: Thursday 13:30 – 16:00 (started at 28.02.2013)

Office Hour: TBA

All important information about the course will be available from this web page.

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Course Description:

This course mainly covers design and implementation of software agents within the scope of agent oriented software engineering (AOSE). Topics include: Autonomous agents and multiagent systems (MAS), agent architectures, introduction of IEEE FIPA specifications, communication in MASs, interaction and cooperation in MASs, agent methodologies for MAS development, agents on the semantic web, MAS metamodeling and model driven development of MASs.

Prerequisites:

There are no course prerequisites. One or more MAS development projects are planned. Students need to be fluent in Java programming language and have knowledge on the related software design principles since required MAS development tools are all based on Java.

Course Material:

• Required: Lecture slides and papers (available on the course’s web page)
• Recommended books:
• An Introduction to Multiagent Systems (2nd edition), Michael Wooldridge, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
• Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems (The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook), Federico Bergenti, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Franco Zambonelli (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
• Agent-oriented Methodologies, Brian Henderson-Sellers and Paolo Giorgini (Eds.), Idea Group Publishing, 2005.
• Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE, Fabio L. Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire and Dominic Greenwood, Wiley Publishing Inc., 2007.
• Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing, David S. Frankel, Wiley Publishing Inc., 2003.
• Development Tools:
• JACK Agent-oriented Development Environment: http://www.aosgrp.com/products/jack/index.html
• Java Agent Development Framework (JADE): http://jade.tilab.com/
• JADEX Framework for BDI Agents: http://jadex-agents.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/xwiki/bin/view/About/Overview
• SEAGENT Multi-Agent System Development Framework: http://seagent.ege.edu.tr/
• ATLAS Transformation Language (ATL): http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/

Tentative Course Syllabus:

Date	Topics	Assignments
28.02	Course Introduction
07.03	Software Agents (Part 1)
14.03	Software Agents (Part 2)
21.03	MAS Development Methodologies
28.03	SEAGENT Multi-Agent System Development Framework
04.04	JADE Framework JADEX BDI Agent System
11.04	REPAST Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Platform NetLogo Multi-agent Programmable Modeling Environment
18.04	JASON Interpreter for an Extended Version of AgentSpeak JACK Autonomous Systems Development Platform
25.04	Midterm Exam
02.05	Agents and the Semantic Web
09.05	Model Driven Development & ATL Use Case
16.05	MAS Modeling & Model Driven MAS Development
23.05	Project Presentations
30.05	Project Presentations

Grading (Tentative):

• Reading assignments 10%
• Midterm 20%
• Projects 35%
• Final 35%