University of Malta

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


 

CSA 4110   Intelligent Software Agents

The main topic of this course is the employment of software agents to practical and intelligent applications.  We will look into technologies for implementing  intelligent agents. Agents differ from conventional (object-oriented) software technology in one or more of the following four dimensions: autonomy, pro-activeness, embeddedness and distributedness.   The course builds on existing knowledge in AI and agent technology in general and focuses on areas of agent application like electronic commerce, recommendation systems, auctions, information retrieval over the WWW, and other commercial and cutting-edge scenarios.

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Past Paper June 2002 - Model Answers
Past Paper June 2003 - Model Answers


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