These slides are under constant construction during the term.

• Concepts for multiagent systems
  
  
• A societal approach to multiagent systems
  
  
• Agents and virtual reality
  
  

• Background in Artificial Intelligence - blackboard and plan
  
  

• Distributed sensing - The Distributed Vehicle Monitoring Testbed
  
  
• Negotiated task allocation - The Contract Net
  
  
• Distributed decision making - The Rand Distributed Air Traffic Control Systems
  
  
• Multiagent truth maintenance - Nuclear test ban verification
  
  
• Multiagent plan coordination - Von Martial's work
  
  

• Programming multiagent systems
  
  

• Beliefs, knowledge and facts
  
  
• Desires, goals and tasks
  
  
• Intentions, plans and coordination
  
  

• Concepts in communication
  
  
• Speech acts
  
  
• KQML
  
  

• Concepts of negotiation and commitment
  
  
• Agent0 - a simple model of commitment
  
  
• Negotiation in game theory
  
  
• Negotiation Logic
  
  

• Sets of agents