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.
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.
The courses they teach are listed below in chronological order, starting with the earliest upcoming course.
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.
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''.
