Teaching Intelligent Agents to Industrial Engineering Majors
Xue‐Feng Yu, Bala Ram · 2005
Since the applications of intelligent agents are continuously growing in many industries, it is imperative for future industrial engineers to develop their knowledge base of intelligent agents. The paper first reviews the intelligent agent courses taught around the world, teaching resources that are available for such a course, and agent construction tools. The paper next presents the authors' experience teaching an intelligent agents course to industrial engineering students. The course was designed to ensure that students learned the skills to apply intelligent agents to analyze and design decentralized, changeable and complex industrial systems. The course format that was used is introduced with recommendations on the content, pedagogy and software. Demonstrations and course projects, used in the course to give students the opportunity to experiment with agent technology, are also described.