days | readings | discussion leader | additional resources |
unit I: overview of artificial life |
tue-feb-2 |
- class cancelled due to travel
- please read for next class:
Karl Sims (1994).
Evolving Virtual Creatures.
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'94, pp15-22.
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tue-feb-9 |
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tue-feb-16 |
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unit II: modeling from nature |
tue-feb-23 |
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Kammet |
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tue-mar-2 |
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Yun |
- Pattie Maes (1995).
Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents.
Artificial Life: An Overview. edited by Christopher
G. Langton. publisher: MIT Press, pp135-162.
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This was the paper posted originally---an interesting read, but not what i had intented:
Barry Brian Werger and Maja Mataric (2000).
Broadcast of Local Eligibility for Multi-Target Observation.
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pp347-356.
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This paper is a follow-up on the conversation we had in class about the formula on the
4th page of the Balch/Zhan/Veloso paper:
Robert Collins, Alan Lipton, Takeo Kanade, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, David Duggins, Yanghai Tsin, David Tolliver, Nobuyoshi Enomoto, Osamu Hasegawa, Peter Burt and Lambert Wixson (2000).
A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-00-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
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tue-mar-9 |
- Cynthia Breazeal, Daphna Buchsbaum, Jesse Gray, David Gatenby and
Bruce Blumberg (2005).
Learning from and about others:
towards using imitation to bootstrap the social understanding of
others by robots.
Artificial Life, volume 11, number 1-2, pp1-32.
- Madeleine Beekman, Gregory A. Sword, Stephen J. Simpson (2008).
Biological Foundations of Swarm Intelligence.
Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications,
Christian Blum and Daniel Merkle (editors),
Springer-Verlag, pp3-41.
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Friedman |
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unit III: artificial life in games and simulations |
tue-mar-16 |
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Wisniewska |
- Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael Wooldridge (1996).
Software Agents.
IEE Review volume 42, number 1, pp17-21.
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tue-mar-23 |
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Xu |
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tue-mar-30 | no class (spring break) |
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tue-apr-6 | no class (spring break) |
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tue-apr-13 |
- NetLogo home page
- Uri Wilensky (2001).
Modeling nature's emergent
patterns with multi-agent languages.
EuroLogo 2001, Linz, Austria.
- Elizabeth Sklar (2007).
Software Review: NetLogo, a multiagent simulation environment.
Journal of Artificial Life, volume 13, number 2, pp303-311.
- Steven F. Railsback, Steven L. Lytinen and Stephen K. Jackson (2006).
Agent-based Simulation Platforms: Review and Development Recommendations.
Simulation, volume 82, issue 9, pp609-623.
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Rabby |
NetLogo models from today's class:
"StupidModel" (from Railsback et al paper) for all platforms:
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unit IV: evolutionary computation |
tue-apr-20 |
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Chu |
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tue-apr-27 |
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Diky |
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tue-may-4 |
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Osisek |
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unit V: artificial societies: complexity, organization and self-organization |
tue-may-11 |
- class cancelled due to travel
(I'll be at AAMAS 2010)
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tue-may-18 |
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Carson |
- Mitchel Resnick (1994).
Learning About Life.
Artificial Life Journal, volume 1, number 1-2, pp229-241.
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tue-may-25 |
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Byrd |
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