IIDS Course
Last update: November 18, 2007
The graduate course Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems is taught by the IIDS group.
Students who wish to participate in this course need to register at the
blackboard presence of our course (loginname and password are
required to use blackboard.
The course has been taught from 2002.
The (current) IIDS-course is the successor of the course Multi-Agent Systems in Complex Domains,
which has been taught from Spring 1994 to Spring 2001. Students who have taken
this old course do not need to take the IIDS course.
Other courses
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Current IIDS course: Winter 2008/2009
In this course the students will focus on agent platforms in complex, distributed environments, and the TAC Supply Chain Management competition.
IIDS Course Information
code: 400152
credits (ECTS): 8
Instructors: dr. T.B. Quillinan, dr. M.E. Warnier,
dr. M. Oey, and drs. S. van Splunter.
Aim: The aim of this course is twofold. The first aim is to acquire knowledge
and insight in conceptual design of multi-agent systems in complex environments.
The second aim is to acquire skills in the following areas:
- Modeling and analysis of distributed multi-agent systems;
- realising these systems;
- analysis of recent relevant literature;
- writing reports;
- presenting results.
Content: In this course the main focus is on analysing, modeling and
implementing realistic, interactive, intelligent, distributed systems. A realistic example
domain involving trading agents is explored in the course and (mostly) implemented.
Method: A combination of lectures, meetings and practical work.
Literature: To be announced during the course (notably articles).
Grading: On the basis of exercises and programming project.
Audience: Masters CS/AI.
Remarks: Attendance of lectures & meetings is obligatory; pre-registration
is advised for this course (at our university's blackboard e-learning system;
loginname and password are required to use blackboard.
Prerequisites: The courses
Distributed Systems (400130) and
Business Modelling and Requirements Engineering (400010) are recommended for Computer Science students.
The courses Design of Multi-agent systems (400054) and
Behavioural Dynamics (400113) are recommended
for Artificial Intelligence students.
More information on this course can be found on the VU BlackBoard.
