CPS 720 Artificial Intelligence Topics with Agents

This course focuses on software agents, particularly mobile agents. The programming language used is Java. Several agent API's are discussed. These include Aglets, originally from IBM, now Open Source, the Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) from the University of Parma, and Ascape, from the Brookings Institute in Washington DC. Communication languages such as the Semantic Language (SL) and XML will also be discussed.