CMSC 477/677: Introductory Assignment

This assignment is meant to give you an introduction to the material. You may use any source to answer, but please cite it.
  1. Read the paper "Intelligent agents: Theory and practice" by M. Woolridge. Provide a 1 paragraph summary of the paper. Also, include an honest initial impressions of agent architectures in a 2nd paragraph.
  2. What is a multi-agent system?
  3. List and give a short definition of a few challenges multi-agent systems face that single-agent systems typically don't have to worry about.
  4. How do you think agent architectures and multi-agent systems as research fields relate to the rest of Artificial Intelligence?
  5. Type out the following sentence and then place a handwritten sign next to it, once the statement is true: "I have read, understood and agree to the syllabus, especially the section on academic integrity."