UBI 622 Multiagent Systems

Spring 2026

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

Assistant: TBA

Time: Thursday 13:30 – 16:00 (started at 05.02.2026)

Office Hour: TBA

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

Announcements:

• (12.03.26) Third assignment has been announced!
• (10.03.26) Sixth week’s slides have been uploaded.
• (05.03.26) Second project has been announced!
• (26.02.26) Methodology research assignments are available here!

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 as well as design and implementation of large language models-enhanced MAS.

Prerequisites:

The course “0301537 Agent-oriented Software Development” must have been successfully completed prior to this course. Further, one or more MAS development projects are planned. Hence, students need to be fluent in Java programming language and have knowledge on the related software design principles since required MAS development tools are mostly based on Java.

Course Material:

• Required: Lecture slides and papers (available on the course’s web page)
• Recommended books:
• Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Development: Platforms, Toolkits, Technologies. Rem Collier, Viviana Mascardi and Alessandro Ricci, Springer, 2026.
• Multi-Agent Oriented Programming: Programming Multi-Agent Systems Using JaCaMo. Olivier Boissier, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Hübner and Alessandro Ricci, MIT Press, 2020.
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks. Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm (Eds.), Springer, 2014.
• An Introduction to Multiagent Systems (2nd edition). Michael Wooldridge, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
• Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE. Fabio L. Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire and Dominic Greenwood, Wiley Publishing Inc., 2007.
• Agent-oriented Methodologies. Brian Henderson-Sellers and Paolo Giorgini (Eds.), Idea Group Publishing, 2005.
• 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.
• Development Tools:
• DSML4BDI - A DSML for Multi-agent Systems: http://akademik.ube.ege.edu.tr/serlab/resources.html#DSML4BDI
• JaCaMo Framework: http://jacamo.sourceforge.net/
• JACK Agent-oriented Development Environment: https://www.aosgrp.com/products/jack/
• Java Agent Development Framework (JADE): http://jade.tilab.com/
• JADEX BDI Agent System: https://www.activecomponents.org/#/project/news
• Prometheus Design Tool: https://sites.google.com/site/rmitagents/software/prometheusPDT

Tentative Course Syllabus:

Date	Topics	Assignments
05.02	Course Introduction
12.02	Software Agents	Assignment 01
19.02	Java Agent DEvelopment Framework (JADE) Book Trading Example as a Maven Project Guide for Running Book Trading Example Project Website of the Book Trading Example	Project 01
26.02	AOSE Methodologies	Assignment 02
05.03	JaCaMo Framework JaCaMo Installation Guide	Project 02
12.03	Model Driven Development of Multi-agent Systems	Assignment 03
19.03	Legal Holiday
26.03	Exam
02.04	Break for Midterm
09.04	Introduction to Large Language Models
16.04	Prompt and Context Engineering
23.04	Legal Holiday
30.04	LLM-Enhanced Multi-agent Systems
07.05	AOSE for LLM-Enhanced Multi-agent Systems
14.05	Evaluations of the Tools for LLM-Enhanced Multi-agent Systems
21.05	Methodology Research Presentations

Grading (Tentative):

• Homework 30%
• Exam 30%
• Evaluation Studies 40%