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This page lists information on various Universities that provide agent courses and lessons utilizing some form of FIPA standards and/or specifications. A brief course or project outline and content information are provided where available.
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University
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University of Bari
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Department
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Department of Computer Science
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Lecturer
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De Carolis Berardina Nadja
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Contact/URL
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aos2.uniba.it:8080/nadja.html
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Course
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Multi-Agent Systems (in the context of this course I try to introduce the problems typical of ubiquitous computing and I propose solutions based on MAS). Currently there are 3 students investigating on this topic in the context of their master thesis.
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University
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Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Department
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Department of Measurement and Information Systems
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Lecturer
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Tadeusz P. Dobrowiecki [{dobrowiecki,tade}@mit.bme.hu]
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Contact/URL
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http://www.mit.bme.hu/~tade
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Course
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Cooperation in sophisticated computer system environments. Trends and tasks demanding intelligence, which appear in large scale computer networks. Notion of an agent system, general types of agent systems. Analysis and implementation of cooperation in distributed systems (cooperation, helping/aiding, basic cooperation protocols, contract nets, FA/C cooperation, conflict phenomena in technical tasks, solving conflicts by communication and protocols). Extending agent knowledge with logical descriptions, verification of cooperation protocols. Agent communication languages. KQML. FIPA - towards the standard. Learning in agent systems.
Question of autonomy and controll. Implementation level problems with architectures, particular high level (knowledge) protocols, question of mobility and safety of agent systems.
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Content
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http://www.mit.bme.hu/oktatas/targyak/vimm4343/
http://www.mit.bme.hu/oktatas/targyak/vimm4343/jegyzet/index.html
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University
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Department
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Dep. of Informatics
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Lecturer
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Dr. Rudolf Scheurer (rudolf.scheurer@unifr.ch)
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Project
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OPTIMA (Optical Network Management with Intelligent and Mobile Agents)
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Project/URL
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http://diuf.unifr.ch/telecom/projects/optima
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Project Outline
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The emergence of new photonic technologies in the field of optical transport networks (OTN), such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), will lead to an incredible growth of bandwidth available per fibre. The variety of client services and network topologies (e.g. IP/WDM mesh) require the implementation of some efficient mechanisms for the management of such networks. Due to the convergence of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunication, new management approaches compete with the traditional centralistic TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) frameworks.
The goal of the OPTIMA project is to contribute to the increase of network survivability and flexibility under the basic assessment that software agent technology, especially the concept of intelligent and mobile agents (IMA), can better cope with the dynamics of complex optical networks than classical static techniques. In particular we want to exploit promising results obtained in the research area of bio-inspired methodologies like collective intelligence (e.g. stigmergetic coordination models) in order to assure optimal management of optical networks. The project uses the FIPA-OS agent platform.
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University
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Department
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Dep. of Informatics
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Lecturer
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Daniel Rossier (daniel.rossier@swisscom.com)
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Project
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Mobility Support with FIPA-OS (FIPA-MOB)
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Project/URL
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http://diuf.unifr.ch/telecom/projects/fipa-mob
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Project Outline
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This project is part of a Masters Thesis. The student will study mobility aspects of agent platforms and will then have to implement some of these for FIPA-OS. The results of this project will serve for the OPTIMA project.
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University
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University of Helsinki
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Department
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Computer Science
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Lecturer
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Heimo Laamanen and Heikki Helin
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Contact/URL
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http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hhelin/opetus/oat/
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Courses
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Basics of Software Agent Technology
Agents, their definitions, architectures and platforms, communication languages, ontologies, standardization and applications
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University
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Department
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Computer Science and Mathematics
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Lecturer
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Dr. Antonio Moreno [amoreno@etse.urv.es]
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Contact/URL
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http://www.etse.urv.es/recerca/banzai/toni
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Course
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The Working Group on Multi-Agent Systems (GruSMA) is composed of several Computer Science who are interested in developing their Final Year Projects in the area of Multi-Agent Systems. I teach to them all they need to make such projects:
- Basic concepts of agents and multi-agent systems
- FIPA specifications
- MAS architecture (platform, DF, AMS, ACC)
- Agent communication language (performatives, slots, protocols)
- JADE
- Basic concepts (behaviours)
- Ontology management
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Content
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http://www.etse.urv.es/recerca/banzai/toni/MAS
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University
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University of South Carolina
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Department
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Computer Science and Eningeering
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Lecturer
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Prof. Michael N. Huhns
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Contact/URL
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http://www.cse.sc.edu/~huhns
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Course
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CSCE 826: Cooperative Information Systems
This course presents the current state of research in cooperative information systems. Topics include theories, architectures, languages, and techniques for achieving coordinated behavior among a decentralized group of information system components. The course describes successful applications in telecommunications, manufacturing automation, and information retrieval; and discusses future applications over worldwide information networks.
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Content
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http://www.cse.sc.edu/~huhns/csce826/index.html
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University
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University of Utah
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Department
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Computer Science
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Lecturer
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Mark Bassam Salem
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Contact/URL
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mark@theSalems.com
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Course
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Active Agency & Statistical Profiling: Approaching Scalable Real-Time Distributed Control Systems. Distributed systems are quickly becoming the norm in today’s world of ubiquitous, high-speed networks that interconnect modern, microprocessor-powered devices. Such advances are changing the way measurement and control systems are - and will be - implemented. Distributed implementations now present themselves as plausible approaches for measurement and control systems. This research investigates the automation and scalability of such systems in the face of real-time constraints.
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Content
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Will be provided at a later time
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University
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University of Utah
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Department
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Electrottechnical
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Lecturer
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Paulo Leitao[pleitao@ipb.pt]
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Contact/URL
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http//www.ipb.pt/~pleitao/
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Course
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Paulo Leitao is using the JADE within his PhD works, aiming to develop agent-based manufacturing control applications.
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Content
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Development of agent-based manufacturing control applications focusing shop floor level.
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