This page collects together a range of teaching resources to accompany the book An Introduction to Multiagent Systems (Second Edition) by Mike Wooldridge.
Please note: These resources are intended for the second edition, a legacy site for the 1st edition is available here.
The following are avaiable:
Terry Payne at the University of Liverpool, has created an iTunes University Course to accompany the book, with a complete set of beautiful slides accompanying them. Terry plans to put video lectures online when possible.
A complete set of lecture slides is
available, in both PostScript and PDF formats. The complete set can be
downloaded in one gzipped tar file, which unpacks to a directory
called distrib. This directory contains the following:
index.html in the top-level
directory, which provides hyperlinks to the main directories in
the distribution - if you install the lecture slides on your
local WWW site for students to use, you can use this file as the
basis of your site;
powerpoint-slides, which
contains lecture slides in Microsoft PowerPoint format.
The naming scheme is lecture01.ppt
through to lecture11.ppt.
(These PowerPoint slides were developed by Professor Jeffrey
S. Rosenschein, of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, and are made available here by his kind
consent. They are based on the PDF/PostScript lecture slides developed
for the book, but augment these in various places with excellent
additional material developed by Jeff himself.)
pdf-slides,
which contains lecture slides for twleve lectures
in PDF format - the file names are lect01.pdf
through to lect12.pdf - you can do an "online"
presentation (rather like a Powerpoint slide show)
with the PDF slides by using Adobe's Acrobat viewer
(go to the "View" menu, then "full screen").
ps-slides, which
contains the twelve sets of slides in PostScript
format. The naming scheme is lect01.ps
through to lect12.ps.
2up, which
contains files lect01-2up.ps and
lect01-2up.pdf through to
lect12-2up.ps and
lect12-2up.pdf.
These are the lecture slides formatted
2 slides per page (more appropriate for handing out to
students than the 1 per page slides).
4up, which is
the same as 2up except that files are
named lect01-4up.ps and
lect01-4up.pdf, and the
document is formatted 4 slides per printed page.
Again, more useful for student handouts.
Georg Groh from TU Munich generously contributed his alternative
slides from the book (in PowerPoint format) which cover lectures 1-6.
They can be downloaded as a single zip
archive, which unpacks to a directory alt-slides.
Most teaching institutes, when they initiate a new course or module on a degree or other programme, are required to write something which we at Liverpool call a "module description", which sets out the aims of the course/module, the learning outcomes for students, and the syllabus that will be followed. For convenience, I include here:
The following exam questions are intended to help students revise and study, by giving them some questions to help focus their studies. If you are a teacher, and you are setting an exam based on this book, then I would strongly advise against simply setting these questions. Your students can use the Web as well!