[agents] Call for Participation: Programming Multi-Agent Systems Tutorial @ AAMAS 2011

[Koen Hindriks]

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  AAMAS-2011 Tutorial Programming Languages and Development Tools for
Multi-Agent Systems

            

                     (Tutorial 3, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2nd)
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Multi-agent systems provide a design approach for developing systems that
are able to operate in complex and dynamic environments. Recently many new
exciting developments have emerged that facilitate the development
multi-agent systems. New technologies for interacting with environments and
for managing the organization of agents are now available to ease the design
of complex systems. At the same time, agent programming language technology
has matured and more sophisticated development environments are available
for coding and debugging multi-agent systems. These technologies are now
also being applied to build more challenging applications such as real-time
games. The aim of this tutorial is to provide participants with a thorough
understanding of these new technologies and developments and to provide them
with basic skills to develop multi-agent systems themselves.

 

The tutorial aims at introducing novices, researchers, and developers from
both Academia and Industry who are interested in developing multi-agent
systems to state-of-the-art languages, techniques, and tools that are
available to support the effective implementation of such systems.

 

Tutorial Outline

* Part 1: Overview of State-of-the-Art Landscape of Agent-Oriented
Programming

- comprehensive introduction to agent-oriented programming.

- comparison of available agent languages

- programming with environments

- features and concepts underlying agent-based development tools.

 

* Part 2: Introduction to the Agent Programming Lab Session

- language elements and features of agent-oriented programming for designing
and building agents

- explanation of the environment that will be used in the lab session

 

* Part 3: Lab Exercise: Developing a Multi-Agent System

- structured programming exercise with supervision.

- gain (more) experience with agent programming by doing it.

 

* Part 4: Organisations and Social Aspects

- exciting and challenging new area of organisational programming

- communication

- social concepts

- organising multi-agent systems.

 

* Part 5: Demonstrators and Discussion

- various demonstrators and applications of agent programming languages
illustrated

- discussion with participants about applying state-of-the-art agent
languages

 

More details and information about the tutorial is available at:
http://mmi.tudelft.nl/~koen/ProMASTutorial2011.html.

 

Select Tutorial 3 ProMAS when Registering for AAMAS2011 at
http://events.con.com.tw/AAMAS2011/modules/reg/reg_step1.asp.  

 

Tutorial Organisers,

Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Koen Hindriks