The real world is distributed. Distributed Artificial Intelligence deals with this distributedness of knowledge, competences and capabilities, across different entities and different locations. 

The course introduces Multi-Agent Systems -  the main concept and technology of Distributed AI. We will discuss, how to build systems that can work as a part of a Multi-agent Systems; how to organize different intelligent entities, how to use negotiation or auctions to distribute tasks to autonomous agents and many more topics from Swarm Intelligence to teams of intelligent robots.