| CODE | CSA5211 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Agent Technology | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Intelligent Computer Systems | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The purpose of this study-unit is to give an overview of the state of the art in agent research and technologies. The main concentration will be on intelligent agents which are software or hardware entities that perform a set of tasks on behalf of a user with some degree of autonomy. Textbooks: • N.R. Jennings & M.J. Wooldridge (Eds), Agent Technology, 1998, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3540635912. • T B Passin, Explorer’s guide to the Semantic Web, Manning, 2004, ISBN: 1-932394-20-6. • M C Daconta et al, The Semantic Web, Wiley, ISBN 0-0-471-43257-1. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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