session # |
date |
topic |
reading |
discussion leader |
1 | wed aug 27 |
introduction |
- CHAPTER 1, Wooldridge textbook
(wooldridge's slides)
- A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
by Nicholas Jennings, Katia Sycara, and Michael Wooldridge
in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 1, number 1, July, 1998, pp.7-38.
downloaded from http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1/jennings_nicholas_1998_1/jennings_nicholas_1998_1.pdf
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(Sklar) |
2 | wed sep 3 |
intelligent agents |
|
Diky |
3 | wed sep 10 |
deductive reasoning agents |
- CHAPTER 3, Wooldridge textbook
(wooldridge's slides)
- Agent Oriented Programming
by Yoav Shoham
in Journal of Artificial Intelligence, volume 60, number 1, 1993, pp.51-92.
downloaded from http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ioerger/cs631-fall05/AOP.pdf
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Kammet |
4 | wed sep 17 |
practical reasoning agents |
- CHAPTER 4, Wooldridge textbook
(wooldridge's slides)
- Plans and resource-bounded practical reasoning
by Michael E. Bratman, David J. Israel and Martha E. Pollack
in Computational Intelligence, volume 4, number 4, 1988, pp.349-355.
downloaded from http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/81.ps.gz
a better version (which includes figure 1) is available
here,
(which came from http://www.si.umich.edu/images/news/compint-1.pdf)
- What Are Plans For
by Philip E. Agre and David Chapman
in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, MIT Press, 1990, pp.17-34.
downloaded from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.18.2792&rep=rep1&type=pdf
|
(Sklar) |
5 | wed sep 24 |
reactive and hybrid agents |
- CHAPTER 5, Wooldridge textbook
(wooldridge's slides)
- A Robust Layered
Control System for a Mobile Robot
by Rodney A. Brooks
in IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, volume 2, number 1, March,
1986, pp.14-23.
downloaded from http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/AIM-864.pdf
- Multiagent
Systems: A survey from a machine learning perspective
by Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
in Autonomous Robots, volume 8, number 3, July, 2000, pp.345-383.
downloaded from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html-links/MASsurvey.pdf
|
Flyr |
| wed oct 1 |
no class |
- CUNY closed (Rosh Hashanah)
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| wed oct 8 |
no class |
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6 | wed oct 15 |
multiagent interactions |
|
Byrd |
7 | wed oct 22 |
reaching agreements |
|
(Parsons) |
8 | wed oct 29 |
communication |
|
Alayev |
9 | wed nov 5 |
working together |
|
Chowdhury |
10 | wed nov 12 |
coordination |
(prof sklar's slides)
Below are some optional readings on Electronic Institutions that might interest you:
- Institutionalising Open Multi-agent Systems
by Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Josep Ll. Arcos, Carles Sierra and Pere Garcia
in proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS'2000), pages 381-83, Boston, 2000.
downloaded from http://www2.iiia.csic.es/~marc/esteva-et-al-icmas2000.pdf
- On the Formal Specification of Electronic Institutions
by Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Pere Garcia and Josep Ll. Arcos
In Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce: the European AgentLink Perspective, pages 126-147, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1991, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
downloaded from http://www2.iiia.csic.es/~marc/esteva-et-al-AMEC-book2001.pdf
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(Sklar) |
11 | wed nov 19 |
methodologies |
- CHAPTER 10, Wooldridge textbook
(wooldridge's slides)
- Modelling
and design of multi-agent systems
by David Kinny and Michael Georgeff
in Intelligent Agents III (LNAI Volume 1193), 1996, pp.1-20,
Springer-Verlag.
downloaded from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.5956&rep=rep1&type=pdf
|
Kaushik |
12 | wed nov 26 |
applications |
- CHAPTER 11, Wooldridge textbook
Pick TWO of the following for your Reading Response:
- What can Agents
do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at
CEC
by H. Van Dyke Parunak
in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative
Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for
Information Discovery on the Internet, Lecture Notes In Computer
Science, volume 1435, 1998, pp.1-18.
downloaded from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34.1187&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Collaborative Interface Agents
by Yezdi Lashkari and Max Metral and Pattie Maes
in Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial
intelligence (AAAI), 1994, pp.444-449.
downloaded from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.44.8644&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Distributed Interpretation: A Model and an Experiment
by Victor R. Lesser and Lee D. Erman
in IEEE Transactions on Computers Issue on Distributed Processing,
volume C-29, number 12, IEEE Press, December, 1980, pp.1144-1163.
downloaded from ftp://mas.cs.umass.edu/pub/lesser/LesserIEEE1980.pdf
- A Study of Scalability Properties in Robotic Teams
by Avi Rosenfeld, Gal A. Kaminka, and Sarit Kraus
in Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems, edited by Paul
Scerri, Regis Vincent, and Roger Mailler, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 27-51.
downloaded from http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/Publications/Papers/rosenfeld05.pdf
- Thinking in Levels: A Dynamic Systems Perspective to Making Sense of the World
by Uri Wilensky and Mitchel Resnick
in Journal of Science Education and Technology, volume 8, number 1,
1999, pp.3-19.
downloaded from http://ccl.northwestern.edu/papers/thinking-in-levels.pdf
|
(Sklar) |
13 | wed dec 3 |
project presentations |
- Alayev
- Byrd
- Chowdhury
- Diky
|
14 | wed dec 10 |
project presentations |
- Flyr
- Kammet
- Kaushik
- (Ozgelen)
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