Intelligent agents

Website:

website containing additional information

Course code:

INFOIAG

Credits:

7.5 ECTS (=5.25 old credit points)

Period:

periode 1 (week 36 t/m 46, dwz 1-9-2003 t/m 14-11-2003; herkansing week 52)

Participants:

up till now 56 subscriptions

Schedule:

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form	time	week	room	teacher
college	ma 13-15	36-46	AARD-C008	John-Jules Meyer
	do 15-17	39,41,43-46	AARD-klein
		40	KRUYT-O111
		42	Rup-A
practicum	ma 15-17	38-46	BBL-401	Marco Wiering
	ma 15-17	38-46	BBL-403
	di 15-17	38-46	BBL-401
	di 15-17	38-46	BBL-403
	vr 13-15	38-46	BBL-401
	vr 13-15	38-46	BBL-403

Contents:

This course (formerly called 'Cognitive Robotics') is about the theory and realisation of so-called intelligent agents, pieces of software that display some degree of autonomy, realised by incorporating `high-level cognitive / mental attitudes' into both modelling and implementation of this kind of software. As such, the subject of intelligent agents is at the cross-roads of the fields of artificial intelligence and mainstream computer science, in particular software engineering. These mental attitudes comprise 'informational' and 'motivational' ones and are often of the so-called BDI kind, dealing with 'beliefs', 'desires' and 'intentions' of agents. The agent concept calls for an integration of several topics in artificial intelligence, such as knowledge representation and reasoning (in particular reasoning about action and change) and planning.
Agent technology, as the field is generally called, has a great potential of applications, ranging from intelligent personal assistants to e-commerce and robotics (where in the latter case often the term 'cognitive robotics' is used).
In the course we will devote much time to the philosophical and theoretical (mostly logical) foundations of the area of intelligent agents, and then go on with describing ways of realising them by special architectures and so-called agent-oriented programming languages in which one can program the 'mental states' of agents. This course presents the introductory theory for the agent-directed courses in the Master programme and is required for courses such as MAS and MAP.

Literature:

Collection of articles.

Course form:

Lectures including exercises. ('Geintegreerd hoor-/werk-college')

Exam form:

Written exam.

Minimum effort to qualify for 2nd chance exam:

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Description:

Overview in brief: * introduction "What are intelligent agents?" * philosophical background: Dennett, Bratman * logical foundations of actions and agents: modal, temporal and dynamic logicc, BDI logic, KARO logic * reasoning about actions: frame problem, situation calculus, planning * agent architectures * agent-oriented programming: agent languages (in particular AGENT0,(CON)GOLOG, 3APL)

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