Dr. M. Montebello - CSA 3210 - Agent Technology

UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
Department of Computer Science & AI
Dr. Matthew Montebello

CSA 3210 Agent Technology

The purpose of this course is to give an overview of the state of the art in agent research and technologies. The concept of “agents” has enjoyed considerable hype lately but its origin can be traced back to A.I. work still going on. The main concentration will be on intelligent agents which are software or hardware entities that perform a set of tasks on behalf of a user with some degree of autonomy.

They find applications in a variety of domains including:

Internet-based information systems,
adaptive (customizable) software systems,
autonomous mobile and immobile robots,
data mining and knowledge discovery,
smart systems (smart homes, smart automobiles, etc.),
decision support systems,
intelligent design and manufacturing systems.

Some of the topics covered are:

basics (history, subject matter),
software architecture,
properties and models of agents,
agent interconnectors and agent systems,
aspect models,
mobility,
co-ordination and security,
architecture types for agent-based application systems,
commercial agent application,
standardization efforts,
practical works,
agent platforms.

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