Tik-79.230 Foundations of Agent-Based Computing

Spring 1999 (Spring 2000, Spring 1998)

This course covers architectures, implementation technology and applications of agent-based systems.

Lectures by Tomi Janhunen: Tuesdays 12-15, room TB353
Tutorials and project assignments: Tommi Syrjänen: Thursdays 15-16, room TB353
Course material:
S. Russel and P. Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 1995.
S. Albayrak and F.J. Garijo (Eds.): Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Applications, Springer (LNCS 1437), 1998.
W. Wobcke, M. Pagnucco and C. Zhang (Eds.): Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer (LNCS 1441), 1998.
In order to pass the course one has to
- give a seminar talk
- complete a project assignment and
- pass an exam.
Brochure in Finnish (gzipped PostScript)
See also TOPI

Timetable and topics of lectures:

January 19: Lecture 1: Brief introduction, no tutorial this week
January 26: Lecture 2: Intelligent agents, no tutorial this week
February 2: Lecture 3, Tutorial 1 (solutions): Uncertainty
February 9: Lecture 4, Tutorial 2 (solutions): Probabilistic reasoning systems
February 16:: Cancelled
February 23:: No lecture this week, introduction to Project Assignments (see below)
March 2: Lecture 5, Tutorial 3 (solutions): Making simple decisions
March 9: Lecture 6, Tutorial 4 (solutions): Making complex decisions
March 16: Lecture 7, Tutorial 5 (solutions): Learning from observations
March 23:: No seminar presentations today
March 30:: Seminar presentations: Lindholm, Siponen and Korkea-aho
April 6:: Easter vacation
April 13:: Seminar presentations: Mäkelä, Jussila and Mattsson
April 20:: Seminar presentations: Johnson, Silander and Tauriainen
April 27:: Seminar presentations: Lehtonen and Tarkkala
May 4:: Break
May 11:: Project assignments due, presentations and demos

The project assignments are based on the RoboCup software platform for playing soccer in a simulated environment.

The deadline for project assignments is May 11.

Latest update on December 15 by Tomi Janhunen