Modelling a university as a multi-agent system

Multi-Agent systems are an approach for designing and implementing complex social organizations in the software domain. In multi-agent systems; actors that interact with the system are modeled as software entities called "agents". These software agents can show autonomous and intelligent behavior. Also when a supporting runtime environment (or platform) is available, agents show mobility and can move between interconnected platforms that form the system. With these properties agents try to satisfy the expectations of their respective owner actors by using their knowledge and belief bases (derived from the actors). An implementation of a multi-agent system can both be used for simulation purposes (by initializing agents based on reference test data) and as an actual information system by attaching agents to real world actors.This work aims at analyzing a university as a complex social system and creating a corresponding multi-agent model. In the designed model academic and administrative units and students are represented by intelligent and mobile agents that can be implemented using JADE multi-agent system development framework. To provide a satisfactory mobile environment faculties and administrative units are defined to have their own (separate) agent platforms.