Education

IIDS Course 2005/2006

The IIDS group contributes to the masters programme of the Computer Systems Section and is involved in the graduate course Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems (IIDS). This course is taught by Benno Overeinder and Frances Brazier. Students who wish to participate in this course need to register at the blackboard presence of our course (login & password required).

The (new) IIDS course is the successor of the course Multi-Agent Systems in Complex Domains, which has been taught from Spring 1994 to Spring 2001.

For more information, see the Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems course page.

Masters Degree in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems

The Department of Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit offers a Master's degree in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems. Through a combination of courses, laboratories, projects, and personal supervision, each student will be helped to expand his or her knowledge of this increasingly important field. Due to the intensity and quality of the programme and the worldwide reputation of the Vrije Universiteit, graduates will be well prepared for admission to Ph.D. programmes at the top universities around the world as well as for jobs with leading companies.

The entire programme is in English. Knowledge of the Dutch language is not necessary.

For more information, see Masters Degree in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems.

TAC SCM 2005 Competition

As part of the IIDS course final project, students design and implement agents for the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management game (TAC SCM). The winning student team of the IIDS course TAC SCM competition was invited to participate in the International TAC SCM 2005 competition. See for more information the BonteKoe Agent webpage.