CMSC 691M, Spring 2002 - Course Syllabus
as of 4/16/02

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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