Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Comments |
|
1 | 1/29 | Course Overview; What's an Agent, Anyway? | ||
2 | 2/31 | Introduction to Agents | Weiss Chap. 1 | Marie/Jeff |
3 | 2/5 | Cognitive Architectures: GPS, Soar | Newell & Simon; Laird et al. | Ashwatha/Csaba |
4 | 2/7 | Cognitive Architectures: PRODIGY | Veloso et al | Qianjun/Mithun |
5 | 2/12 | Cognitive Architectures: ACT-R | Anderson | Chad/Suryakant |
6 | 2/14 | Reactive Architectures: Brooks | Brooks "..reason"; Brooks "..representation" | Priyang/Nitin |
7 | 2/19 | Reactive Architectures: BBR | Arkin | Sowmya/Rong |
8 | 2/21 | Reactive Architectures: Subsumption | Rosenschein & Kaelbling | Marie/Sohel |
9 | 2/26 | Logical Architectures: Formal Methods | Weiss Chap. 8 | Marie/Gunjan;
Project proposal due |
10 | 2/28 | Logical Architectures: BDI Model | Wooldridge; Georgeff et al. | Mithun/Qianjun |
11 | 3/5 | Theories of Mind: Society of Mind; Creativity | Minsky; Johnson-Laird | Suryakant/Chad |
12 | 3/8 | Theories of Mind: Emotion; Consciousness | Sloman; Bechtel | Nitin/Priyang |
13 | 3/12 | Agent Architectures: Perspectives / Wrap-Up | All/Sowmya | |
14 | 3/14 | Project Domain: Gamebots | Gamebots overview/links | |
15 | 3/19 | Guest lecture: Dr. Tim Finin, CSEE - Agents Standards and Protocols I | Labrou, Finin, and
Peng;
Smith and Cohen |
Slides (3/19-3/21)
Midterm drafts due |
16 | 3/21 | Guest lecture: Dr. Tim Finin, CSEE -
Agent Standards and Protocols II |
FIPA website, agent-based
systems spec, communicative
act spec;
Dignum and Greaves; Pitt |
|
3/26-38 | SPRING BREAK | |||
17 | 4/2 | Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems | Weiss Chap. 2 | Midterm review due |
18 | 4/4 | Distributed Problem Solving | Weiss Chap. 3.1-3.4 | Midterm drafts returned |
19 | 4/9 | Distributed Planning - SharedPlans | Weiss Chap. 3.5-3.8; Grosz and Kraus | |
20 | 4/11 | Distributed Planning - STEAM | Tambe (also see longer paper) | Initial Gamebot implementation |
21 | 4/16 | Distributed Planning - Joint Intentions | Levesque, Cohen, and Nunes | Final drafts due |
22 | 4/18 | Distributed Rationality | Weiss Chap. 5.1-5.4 | |
23 | 4/23 | Contract Nets | Weiss Chap. 5.7; Davis and Smith | |
24 | 4/25 | NO CLASS | ||
25 | 4/30 | Learning in Multi-Agent Systems | Weiss Chap. 6.1-6.3 | |
26 | 5/2 | Learning in Multi-Agent Systems II | Weiss Chap. 6.5-6.6 | |
27 | 5/7 | A Diversion: Swarm, Agent Organization, and Agent-Based Simulation (Matt Gaston) | www.swarm.org | Agent testing |
28 | 5/9 | Dynamic Organization | Weiss Chap. 7.1-7.3 | |
29 | 5/14 | High-Low: Looking Back | ||
5/16 | Agent Tournament | Agent reports due |