Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Software agents (17.E2K41N)

Native organizations units: No data

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Software Engineering and Information Technologies (Godina: 4, Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	5

Educational goal:

Students learn about concepts, techniques and selected examples of application of distributed artificial intelligence and agent systems.

Educational outcome:

Students gain knowledge which enables the implementation of agent paradigm in the design and implementation of complex software systems.

Course content:

Internal architecture of intelligent agent. Multi-agent system (MAS). Communication, coordination and negotiation in MAS. Languages for interagent communication. MAS architecture. MAS software environment. Examples of application.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, Computer practice. Consultations. Practical part of the course is examined in the computer laboratory where students solve obligatory tasks. Students can also do nonobligatory laboratory tasks. Course grade is formed on the basis of lecture attendance, marks on the obligatory and nonobligatory tasks, and final examination.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Milan Vidaković	Agentska okruženja	2007	Zadužbina Andrejević	Serbian language
Michael Knapi, Jay Johnson	Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems	1998	McGraw-Hill	English