Spring 2002
Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:00-4:30pm, Jorgensen 262.
This course concerns distributed computer systems composed of
cooperating intelligent agents.
The main book is
Jacques Ferber, "Multiagent systems", Addison Wesley, 1999.
Various other books are useful, e.g.
Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (editors) ``Readings in Agents''
Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
In addition to learning the concepts and theory of
multiagent systems, we will investigate programming
them. Programming will use Prolog programs
on a network of computers communicating via sockets,
and possibly with a 3D visualization of the system.
Prolog will be taught.
This term we will also consider intelligent agents in virtual
reality and their cooperation with humans, since the instructor
has just completed editing a book on this subject.
A full description of the course can be
found at
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~bond/courses/cs101c
Instructor: Alan H. Bond, Department of Computer Science
Email: bond@cs
Extension: 3034
Office: Jorgensen 273