CMSC 477/677, Fall 2005
Paper Presentations



Date
Presenter
Topic
Thu 4/28
Tristin Celestin
Coalition formation

Adrian Titus
Multi-agent learning / game theory

Dale Patterson
Icarus
Tue 5/3
Markus Dale
MAS traffic management

Haimonti Dutta Coalition formation

Paul McNamee MAS information retrieval / cooperative information discovery
Tue 5/10
Adam Raby
TAC/SCM competition (?)

Craig Cambias
Learning to cooperate

Blaz Bulka
Coalition formation and information exchange
Thu 5/12
Ashley Gordon
Modeling human attitudes

Randy Schauer
Autonomous computing

Holly Bennett
Robotic teams
Fri 5/13
Steven Zucconi
Agent cooperation

Ben Derosier
Emotion

Rich Goldman
Operant conditioning in Skinnerbots

Brian Stepnitz
Recursive agent modeling

Justin Martineau
Believable agents
Tue 5/17
Balaji Viswanathan
Pheromone-based learning

David Little
MAS learning - neural nets and RL

Todd Olsen
Co-evolution
Thu 5/19
Sandor Dornbush
Learning in contract nets

MAS Project Presentations (10 minutes each):
  • Balaji Viswanathan / Sandor Dornbush:                   Learning trust for cooperation
  • David Little / Todd Olsen:                                       Poker players
  • Adam Raby:                                                           Trading Agent Competition
  • Craig Cambias:                                                       Learning to cooperate
  • Holly Bennett / Rich Goldman:                                TankSoar
  • Steven Zucconi:                                                      Predator vs. prey simulation
  • Brian Stepnitz / Justin Martineau:                             Middleman trading game
  • Paul McNamee(?):                                                  MAS information retrieval