| CMSC 477/677, Spring 2005 | |||||
| Course Schedule | |||||
| as of 4/12/05 | |||||
| Please note: This is a tentative schedule, and is subject to change. | |||||
| Discussion leader schedule | |||||
| Student presentation schedule | |||||
| Class | Day | Date | Topic | Reading | Comments |
| Agent Architectures | |||||
| 1 | Tue | 2/1 | Course overview, "Team formation" exercise | Slides | |
| 2 | Thu | 2/3 | Agents |
(1) Wooldridge ch. 1 (2) Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings, "Intelligent agents: Theory and practice." Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2), pp. 115-152, 1995. |
Slides Discussion questions |
| 3 | Tue | 2/8 | Formal methods / Golog |
(1) Wooldridge ch. 3 (2) Hector J. Levesque et al., "GOLOG: A logic programming language for dynamic domains." Journal of Logic Programming 31: 59-84, 1997. |
Discussion questions |
| 4 | Thu | 2/10 | BDI agents |
(1) Wooldridge ch. 4 (2) M. E. Bratman et al., "Plans and resource-bounded practical reasoning." Computational Intelligence 4, 349-355, 1988. |
Discussion questions |
| 5 | Tue | 2/15 | ACT-R |
(1) ACT-R website -- Overview:
http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/about/ (2) John R. Anderson, "ACT: A simple theory of complex cognition." American Psychologist 51: 355-365, 1996. |
Discussion questions |
| 6 | Thu | 2/17 | Soar |
(1) Soar website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soar:
Overview (2) Jill Fain Lehman, John Laird, and Paul Rosenbloom, "A gentle introduction to Soar, an architecture for human cognition." |
Discussion questions |
| 7 | Tue | 2/22 | Brooks / subsumption |
(1) Wooldridge ch. 5.1-5.2 (2) Rodney Brooks, Intelligence without reason. IJCAI-91, pp. 569-595, Sydney, Australia, August 1991. (3) Rodney Brooks, Intelligence without Representation. Artificial Intelligence 47, 139-159, 1991. |
Agents
project proposal due Discussion questions |
| 8 | Thu | 2/24 | UMBC CLOSED DUE TO SNOW |
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| 9 | Tue | 3/1 | Hybrid architectures / AuRA |
(1) Wooldridge ch. 5.3 (2) Ronald C. Arkin and Tucker Balch, "AuRA: Principles and Practices in Review." Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI 9(2/3): 175-188, 1997. |
Discussion questions |
| 10 | Thu | 3/3 | Emotion |
(1) Aaron Sloman,
"Beyond shallow models of emotion." Cognitive Processing 2(1):
177-198, 2001. (2) Sandra Clara Gadanho, "Learning behavior-selection by emotions and cognition in a multi-goal robot task." Journal of Machine Learning Research 4:385-412, July 2003. |
Discussion questions |
| 11 | Tue | 3/8 | Society of Mind |
(1) EMCP: Society
of Mind Review (2) Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (pp. 17-37 and 71-80), Simon & Schuster, 1985. |
Discussion questions |
| 12 | Thu | 3/10 | Consciousness |
(1) William
Bechtel, "Consciousness: Perspectives from Symbolic and Connectionist
AI." Neuropsychologia, 33, 1075-1086. (2) Daniel C. Dennett, "Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds." IIAS Symposium on Cognition, Computation and Consciousness, Kyoto, September 1-3, 1994. (3) Michael L. Anderson, "Embodied cognition: A field guide." Artificial Intelligence 149(1): 91-130, 2003. |
Discussion questions |
| Multi-Agent Systems | |||||
| 13 | Tue | 3/15 | Multi-agent systems overview | None!
Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride... :-) |
Agents project demonstrations this week (see schedule) Slides |
| 14 | Thu | 3/17 | Distributed rationality games | Wooldridge Ch. 6 | Slides (with results!) |
| SPRING BREAK (3/22 and 3/24) | |||||
| 15 | Tue | 3/29 | Tim Finin: Agent languages | Wooldridge
Ch. 8 |
Dr. dJ out of town |
| 16 | Tue | 3/31 | Matt Gaston: MAS Learning | Dr. dJ out of town | |
| 17 | Thu | 4/5 | Distributed planning and problem solving | (1)
Wooldridge Ch. 9 (2) V. Lesser et al., "Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS domain-independent coordination framework." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 9(1): 87-143, July 2004. |
Agents
project report due |
| 18 | Thu | 4/7 | SharedPlans, joint intentions | (1)
H.J. Levesque, P.R. Cohen, and J.H.T. Nunes, "On
acting together." AAAI-90. (2) B.J. Grosz, L. Hunsberger, and S. Kraus, "Planning and acting together." AI Magazine 20(4), Winter 1999. |
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| 19 | Tue | 4/12 | GAME
DAY |
MAS survey paper proposal and bibliography due | |
| 20 | Thu | 4/14 | Barbara Grosz: Women in IT talk | CRA-W Distinguished Speaker: Prof. Barbara Grosz, Harvard University | |
| ADDED | Fri | 4/15 | 1pm: Barbara Grosz CS&EE seminar, "Beyond Mice and Menus" | ||
| 21 | Tue | 4/19 | STEAM / TEAMCORE | (1)
Milind Tambe, "Agent Architectures
for Flexible, Practical Teamwork." AAAI-97. (2) P. Scerri, D. V. Pynadath, and M. Tambe, "Towards Adjustable Autonomy for the Real World." JAIR 17: 171-228, 2002. |
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| 22 | Thu | 4/21 | Voting, auctions | (1)
Wooldridge Ch. 7 (2) D. Parkes, "Classic mechanism design." Ch. 2 in Iterative Combinatorial Auctions, 2001 U. Penn. Ph.D. dissertation. |
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| 23 | Tue | 4/26 | Contract nets and coalition formation | (1)
R. Davis and R. G. Smith, "Negotiation
as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving." Artificial Intelligence
20: 63-109, 1983. (2) C. H. Brooks and E. H. Durfee, "Congregating and market formation." AAMAS-2002. |
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| 24 | Thu | 4/28 | 3
student talks |
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| 25 | Tue | 5/3 | 3 student talks | ||
| 26 | Thu | 5/5 | Michael Littman: Distributed reinforcement learning | Guest
speaker: Prof. Michael Littman, Rutgers University. MAS draft survey paper due |
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| 27 | Tue | 5/10 | 3 student talks | ||
| 28 | Thu | 5/12 | 3 student talks | MAS
survey paper review due |
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| ADDED |
Fri |
5/13 |
1-3pm (ITE 241): 5 student talks |
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| 29 | Tue | 5/17 | 3
student talks |
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| Thu | 5/19 | Final exam slot (3:30-5:30): 1 student talk; MAS project presentations | MAS final survey paper & project report due | ||