CS 9074 SOFTWARE AGENT Syllabus REGULATIONS 2008 Anna University syllabus and question papers

CS 9074  SOFTWARE AGENT Syllabus REGULATIONS 2008 Anna University syllabus and question papers
ANNA UNIVERSITY :: CHENNAI 600 025
REGULATIONS 2008
CURRICULUM FOR B.E. COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Anna University Chennai B.E .Computer Science and Engineering Semester IV Regulations 2008 Syllabus

AIM:
This course aims at providing sufficient in depth knowledge in Software agents.

OBJECTIVES:

•   The student can well understand the philosophy and psychology of both human agents and software agents regarding co ordinations operation and communication.
•   Intelligent / Cognitive aspects are dealt with software knowledge support.

 
UNIT I  AGENTS – OVERVIEW  9
Agent Definition – Agent Programming Paradigms – Agent Vs Object – Aglet  – Mobile Agents – Agent Frameworks – Agent Reasoning.

 UNIT II  JAVA AGENTS  9
Processes – Threads- FIPA – ACL – DIA GAL– Daemons – Components – Java Beans –  ActiveX  –  Sockets  –  RPCs  –  Distributed Computing  –  Aglets Programming  –  Jini
Architecture – Actors and Agents – Typed and proactive messages.

UNIT III  MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS  9
Reasoning about Multi agent Interaction between agents  –  Reactive English Agents Dutch  – Combinational Spectrum   – Cognitive Agents –  Interaction protocols  – Agent coordination  –  Agent negotiation  –  Agent Cooperation  –  Agent Organization  –  Self-Interested agents in Electronic Commerce Applications  –  Probabilistic Agents  – Temporal Agents.
 
UNIT IV  INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENTS  9
Interface Agents  –  Agent Communication Languages  –  Agent Knowledge Representation  –  Agent Adaptability  –  Belief Desire Intension  –  Mobile Agent Applications- Argumentaic and Knowledge Sharing Agent.

UNIT V  AGENTS AND SECURITY  9
Agent Security Issues – Mobile Agents Security – Protecting Agents against Malicious Hosts  – Untrusted Agent – Black Box Security  – Authentication for agents – Security issues for Agents. TOTAL: 45 PERIODS  

TEXT BOOKS:
1.  Bigus & Bigus, " Constructing Intelligent agents with Java ", Wiley, 1997.
2.  Bradshaw, " Software Agents ", MIT Press, 2000.

REFERENCES:
1.  Russel, Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
2.  Richard Murch, Tony Johnson, "Intelligent Software Agents", Prentice Hall, 2000.
3.  Gerhard Weiss, “Multi Agent Systems – A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence”, MIT Press, 2000.

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