DS2SMA - Multi-Agent Systems

Course specification
Course title		Multi-Agent Systems
Acronym		DS2SMA
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		System Control and Signal Processing
Type of study		doctoral studies
Lecturer (for classes)		professor PhD Srđan Stanković professor PhD Branko Kovačević
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		9.0	Status	elective
Condition		none
The goal		Objective of the course is for the students to be informed about the complex systems that contain set on independent entities (agents), and bout the methodology for modeling and control of such systems.
The outcome		Learning outcomes of the course are for the student to gain he following skills: to form a model of a complex system with a number of agents, to establish efficient and robust form of communication between the agents; to design a control low for a formation of agents with the final goal to accomplish the joint mission.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Multi-agent problem formulation; Distributed constraints; Learning in multi-agent systems; Negotiation; Voting and mechanism design; Coordination using goal and plan hierarchies.
Contents of exercises		none
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
6
Methods of teaching		Lectures of theory with independent accomplishing of particular projects.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	0
Practical lessons		70	Oral examination	30
Projects		0
Colloquia		0
Seminars		0