Courses

CWI highly values education. CWI researchers not only supervise and inspire the CWI PhD students, but also aim at contributing to teaching Master's students at universities. See the overview of CWI's current involvement in teaching courses in the Netherlands below.

Contribution to education

CWI is a research institute and does not have education as an institutional task. However, many of the senior researchers of CWI contribute to education via an affiliation or part-time appointment at one of the Dutch universities. CWI conveys the knowledge of the scientists employed at our institute to the new generation of mathematics and computer science students. Our staff contributes by e.g. teaching a university course or supervising MSc thesis projects carried out by university students. They also supervise PhD students at CWI, who defend their thesis at one of the Dutch universities after their employment at CWI. All courses can be found below in alphabetical order. You can also open the pdf for a complete overview.

Multi-Agent Systems

In Multi-agent systems (MAS) one studies collections of interacting, strategic and intelligent agents. These agents typically can sense both other agents and their environment, reason about what they perceive, and plan and carry out actions to achieve specific goals. In this course we introduce a number of fundamental scientific and engineering concepts that underpin the theoretical study of such multi-agent systems.

Focus

We will cover the following topics: ''Agents: Typology and examples, strategic versus learning agents'', ''Introduction to non-cooperative game theory'', ''Introduction to coalitional game theory for teams of selfish agents'', ''Principles of Mechanism Design'', ''Exploration versus Exploitation'', ''Markov Decision Processes'', ''Reinforcement learning for a single agent'', and ''Introduction to multi-agent reinforcement learning''.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • Hindriks, K.V. (Instructor)
Period
27 oct 2025 – 19 dec 2025
Other urls
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Multi-Agent Systems (UU)

This course provides an introduction to the field of multiagent systems.

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Focus

The lectures cover the following topics: decision theory, game theory, communication, social choice, mechanism design, auctions.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
30 oct 2023 – 24 nov 2023
Level
MSc

Multi-Agent Systems

We introduce a number of fundamental scientific and engineering concepts that underpin the theoretical study of such multi-agent systems.

Focus

In Multi-agent systems (MAS) one studies collections of interacting, intelligent agents.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 oct 2023 – 30 nov 2023
Other urls
Level
MSc

Agent-based Energy Markets

In this course we introduce a number of fundamental scientific and engineering concepts that underpin the theoretical study of such multi-agent systems.

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Focus

This course focuses on balancing supply and demand in future energy systems, especially addressing smart grids, renewable resources, and heavy energy consuming devices.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 nov 2022 – 1 feb 2023
Level
BSc