Intelligent Agents

This module will look at one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving fields within computing: Intelligent Agents. Agents are software programs that can understand their environment and act in a way that helps them achieve their desired goals. They are an intelligent and innovative tool that can be deployed in a whole range of scenarios across the private and public sector.

Learning Outcomes

• • An understanding of the motivations for, and appropriate use of, agent-based computing.
• • An understanding of the main agent models in use today and their grounding in artificial intelligence research.
• • The knowledge and skills required to develop, deploy and evaluate the tools and techniques of intelligent systems to solve real-world problems.
• • An understanding of contemporary research issues in the area of intelligent agent systems.

Assignments

Development Team Project: Multi-Agent System for Academic Literature Retrieval

Development Individual Project: Literature Retrieval Agent using Python & Crossref API

Module Reflection