Lecture 2

One of you commented the concepts of agents are still fuzzy for them.
So, in Lecture 2, we introduced some internal mechanisms and architecture for agents, especially the Belief-Desire-Intension agent architecture.

We showed a detail example of a concrete BDI agent the paper on negotiation based on constraints as to illustrate the functioning of agents:

D.K.W. Chiu, S.C. Cheung, P.C.K. Hung, and H.F. Leung. Constraint-based Negotiation in a Multi-Agent Information System with Multiple Platform Support, 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS37), Jan 2004. (ppt)(doc)

We shall go over the rest of the paper in the next lecture.

So far, we have introduced both the macroscopic (top down) and microscopic (bottom up) view of agents and MAS.