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CSC 580 Intelligent Agents Syllabus

General Information

Textbooks

To the best of my knowledge, there are no suitable textbooks available for this course. Most of the books and articles on "intelligent agents" are research monographs, or collections of research papers. Textbooks on Knowledge-based Systems and Artificial Intelligence mostly concentrate on questions related to the representation and manipulation of knowledge through computers and various techniques used for that purpose, but not so much on aspects that distinguish intelligent agents from traditional artificial intelligence approaches.

The following books contain some interesting chapters, and may be suitable for specific topics:

Some agent environments are based on the Jess system, which is described in For more material on Jess and CLIPS (an earlier version of an expert system shell with which Jess is mostly compatible), see the CPE/CSC 481 Syllabus.

Additional Material

Further material will be made available through handouts in class, and through pointers to relevant Web pages.

Grading Policy

Assignments 20%
Project 30%
Midterm 20%
Individual Presentations 30%
The table gives an overview of the calculation of the grades. I reserve the right, however, to change the formula used. Please note that the project consists of several parts which will be evaluated separately. The project will also be done in teams, and the performance of the team as a whole will be graded unless there is a clear disparity in the contribution of the individual team members. Should this be the case, I might ask for additional documentation like work sheets, email messages, or draft copies of documentation to evaluate individual contributions.

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