José M. Vidal's Presentations

An overview of web hosting, grid, and cloud computing services.

• Rohit Khare and Tantek Celik. Microformats: a pragmatic path to the semantic web. In Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, p. 865--866, ACM. 2006.
• Khare, R.. Microformats: the next (small) thing on the semantic Web?. IEEE Internet Computing, 10(1):68--75, Jan.-Feb. 2006.
• Microformats.org

• Google Gears API.

A quick overview.

• Facebook developers and API documentation
• f8 keynote Mark Zuckerberg talk.

We describe SOAP. This talk summarizes

• Nilo Mitra, SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer
• Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Jean-Jacques Moreau, and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework
• Robert Englander, Java and SOAP, 2002.

• GWT Documentation
• Google Introduces GWT and why Ajax is good for you.
• NetBeans GWT Tutorial

Introduction to the rails platform for web application development.

• Bruce Tate. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running. O'Reilly Publishers. 2006.
• Ruby on Rails demo.
• api.rubyonrails.com.

A quick overview of the more surprising bits of Ruby. Examples taken from:

• Dave Thomas. Programming Ruby: The Pragmaic Programmers' Guide. Pragmatic Bookshelf. 2005.

I also recommend you get a cheat sheet.

An introduction to the language as used within a browser. This talk follows:

• David Flanagan, JavaScript, 5th edition, 2006. Chapters 13–20.

Examples are taken from that book.

An introduction to the language. This talk follows:

• David Flanagan, JavaScript, 5th edition, 2006. Chapters 1–12.

Examples are taken from that book.

This talk summarizes material from the appropriate RFCs and W3C Recommendations, as well as:

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 W3C Recommendation, 2006
• Michel Klein. Tutorial: The Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems,(16)2. 2001.
• Stefan Decker, Sergey Melnik, Frank Van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel, Michel Klein, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, and Ian Horrocks. The Semantic Web: The Roles of XML and RDF. IEEE Internet Computing,(4)5. 2000.
• Edd Dumbill Finding friends with XML and RDF: The Friend-of-a-Friend vocabulary can make it easier to manage online communities, 2002
• Philip McCarthy Search RDF Data with SPARQL: SPARQL and the Jena Toolkit open up the semantic Web, 2005.
• Deborah L. McGuinness and Frank van Harmelen editors, OWL Web Ontology Language Overview

This talks summarizes material from

• Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lasilla. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 2001.
• James Hendler. Agents and the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems, (16)2. 2001.

Some basic information and a quick look at the future.

We present a few AJAX tricks and a quick introduction to Prototype. Examples taken from:

• Bruce Berry, Ajax Hacks, 2006
• Steve Olson, Ajax on Java, 2007
• Prototype API Docs

A quick introduction to PHP.

• wikipedia:PHP
• Practical PHP Programming by Paul Hudson.

We describe how to implement java servlets. Based on

• Jason Hunter, Java Servlet Programming, Second Edition, 2001. servlets.com.
• Marty Hall and Larry Brown. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages. Prentice Hall PTR. 2003.

We summarize

• HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999.
• XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, W3C Recommendation. 2002.

This talks provides a brief history of the Internet and distributed applications. For more information read:

• Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming, 2001. Chapters 2-3.
• RFC 2616: HTTP Protocol 1.1.

Chapter 9

Voting, Mechanism design, and distributed algorithmics mechanism design. Chapter 8.

We introduce auctions for multiagent systems. Chapter 7.

We describe automated negotiation as it applies to multiagent systems. Chapter 6.

We introduce the topic of learning in multiagent systems and present recent results.

Standard, extended, and characteristic form games. Chapters 2 and 3.

Algorithms for solving distributed constraint problems in multiagent systems.

We introduce NetLogo and its uses for building Multiagent Systems.

We cover the most popular formal models for representing agents and multiagent problems.

An overview of software engineering techniques for developing web applications. Based on

• Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet Software Engineering for Internet Applications, 2006.
• Philip Greenspun SQL for Web Nerds
• Philip Greenspun Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing 1998–2003.

An introduction to the script.aculo.us library.

Parsing and using XML with JavaScript.

• David Flanagan, JavaScript, 5th edition, 2006. Chapter 21.

Examples are taken from that book.

Examples taken from

• Canvas Tutorial, Mozilla Developer Center.
• Canvas from Apple Developer Connection.
• SVG Presentation. W3C.
• W3C standard.
• SVG Tutorial

A brief introduction to CSS, based on:

• Eric A. Meyer Cascading Style Sheets, 2000.
• Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1, W3C Recommendation, 1999.
• Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2, W3C Recommendation, 1998.

A quick overview of current projects.

We present the coalition formation problem and some solutions.

• Tuomas Sandholm, Kate Larson, Martin Anderson, Onn Shehory, and Fernando Tohme. Coalition Structure Generation with Worst Case Guarantees. Artificial Intelligence, 111(1-2):209--238, 1999
• Onn Shehory and Sarit Kraus. Methods for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation. Artificial Intelligence, May; 101(1-2):165--200, 1998

The problems with voting.

We present the basics of agent communication.

• Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. September 2003. Chapter 6.
• Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. Rational Communication in Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal, 4(3):233--272, 2001.

We analyze the problem of coordination in game-theoretic terms.

• Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. Chapter 4.
• Yoav Shoham and Moshe Tennenholtz. ldquo;On the emergence of social conventions: modeling, analysis, and simulationsrdquo;. Artificial Intelligence, 94p. 139--166, 1997.

We summarize

• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. Chapter 5.

We summarize some of the material from

• Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. September 2003. Chapter 2.
• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons; 2002. Chapters 3-4.

An introduction to multiagent systems based on:

• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapters 1-2.

These slides are based on

• MIT 6.170: Open Courseware, Procedure Specifications
• MIT 6.170: Open Courseware, Abstract Types

We provide the introduction to CSCE 492, and then go on to talk about decoupling. The decoupling slides are based on

• MIT 6.170: Open Courseware, Introduction
• MIT 6.170: Open Courseware, Decoupling
• MIT 6.170: Open Courseware, Decoupling II

A presentation of the paper

• Paul Buhler and José M. Vidal. Enacting BPEL4WS Specified Workflows with Multiagent Systems. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering, 2004.

A presentation of the paper

• José M. Vidal, Paul Buhler, and Hrishikesh Goradia. Multiagent Systems Past and Future. In AAMAS Workshop on Teaching Multiagent Systems, 2004.

We describe workflows and the workflow language BPEL4WS. We study the possibility of using workflows in multiagent enactment.

• Andrews et. al. Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Version 1.1. 2003.
• José M. Vidal, Paul Buhler, and Christian Stahl. Multiagent Systems with Workflows. IEEE Internet Computing, January/February; 8(1):76--82, 2004.

An overview of

• David Booth, Hugo Haas, Francis McCabe, Eric Newcomer, Michael Champion, Chris Ferris, and David Orchard. Web Services Architecture. W3C Working Group Note 11. 2004.

We introduce the WSDL. This talk is based on:

• James Snell, Doug Tidwell, and Pavel Kulchenko. Programming Web Services with SOAP. 2002. Chapter 5
• Erik Christensen, Francisco Curbera, Greg Meredith, and Sanjiva Weerawarana Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1. 2001

This talk gives a very quick overview of the .NET architecture for people interested in distributed programming with SOAP.

We give an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). This talk is based on

• Jonathan Dale and Ebrahim Mamdani. Open Standards for Interoperating Agent-Based Systems. Software Focus, 1(2), 2001.

We introduce OWL-S. This talk is based on:

• The OWL Services Coalition. OWL-S Technical Overview
• Massimo Paolucci and Katia Sycara. Autonomous Semantic Web Services. IEEE Internet Computing, 7(5):34--41, 2003.

We describe the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration project. This talk is based on:

• James Snell, Doug Tidwell, and Pavel Kulchenko. Programming Web Services with SOAP. 2002. Chapter 6
• Tyler Jewell and Dave Chappell UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration Part 1

Getting started with Axis. A presentation of the

• Axis User's Guide.

This talk provides a quick overview of XML parsing using Java

• IBM developerWorks, Validating XML (PDF)
• SAX Quickstart
• IBM developerWorks Understanding DOM (PDF)
• Elliot Rusty Harold, Processing XML with Java, 2002. (Optional)

We present some of the ideas from:

• William Grosso, Java RMI, 2002. Chapters 5-10, 12-17, 19-20, 22.

Code examples were downloaded from and belong to O'Reilly.

We give a very high-level overview of grid computing and the Globus toolkit. This talk is based on:

• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, and Steven Tuecke. Grid Services for Distributed System Integration, IEEE Computer, 35(6), 2002.
• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, and Steven Tuecke. The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations, 2001.
• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, and Steven Tuecke. The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration, January, 2002.
• Introduction to Grid Computing and the Globus Toolkit
• M. Mitchell Waldrop. Grid Computing. Technology Review, May; 105(4):30--37, 2002.

This talk is based on:

• Douglas C. Schmidt. CORBA Overview.
• Object Management Group. CORBA Overview (Chaper 2) in CORBA 2.6 Formal Specification, 2002.
• Steve Vinoski. CORBA: Integrating Diverse Applications within Distributed Heterogeneous Environments. IEEE Communications, (35)2, 1997.
• Dave Bartlett. OMG Interface Definition Language Definition Language, 2000.

This talk summarizes material from

• Getting Started Using RMI
• Dynamic Code Downloading using RMI
• Creating an Activatable Object, SUN Guide, 2002.
• Making a UnicastRemoteObject Activatable, SUN Guide, 2002.
• Activating an object that does not extend java.rmi.activation.Activatable, SUN Guide, 2002.
• Using a Custom RMI Socket Factory, SUN Guide, 2002.

This talk is based, in part, on:

• Jim Farley, Java Distributed Computing, Chapter 3.

An emacs mode for generating XHMTL presentations. Written by José M. Vidal.

We present material based on

• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapter 11.

We summarize

• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapter 10

This talk summarizes material from:

• Paul Buhler and José M. Vidal. Biter: A Platform for the Teaching and Research of Multiagent Systems' Design using RoboCup. A. Birk and S. Coradeschi and S. Tadokoro ed.In RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V. LNCS/LNAI Lecture Notes Volume 2377, Springer-Verlag. 2002.
• Hrishikesh J. Goradia and José M. Vidal. Building Blocks for Agent Design. Paolo Giorgini ed.In Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag. 2004.
• Biter Homepage
• SoccerBeans Homepage

This talk summarizes material from

• Soccerserver Manual
• Robocup Simulator
• Stacy Marsella, Milind Tambe, Jafar Adibi, Yaser Al-Onaiza, Gal A. Kaminka, and Ion Muslea. Experiences Acquired in the Design of RoboCup Teams: A Comparison of Two Fielded Teams. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,(4)1/2:115--129, 2001.

We cover agent communications, KIF, KQML, and FIPA-ACL. This talk summarizes:

• Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapter 8
• FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification. 2002.
• FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification. 2002.
• FIPA Contract Net Interaction Protocol Specification. 2002.
• FIPA Iterated Contract Net Interaction Protocol Specification. 2002.
• FIPA English Auction Interaction Protocol Specification. 2001.
• James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, and Bernhard Bauer. Representing Agent Interaction Protocols in UML. Paolo Ciancarini and Michael Wooldridge ed.In Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, p. 121--140, Springer-Verlag. 2001.

We introduce DAML-S. This talk is based on:

• The DAML Services Coalition. DAML-S 0.6: Technical Overview and WalkThrough
• Massimo Paolucci and Katia Sycara. Autonomous Semantic Web Services. IEEE Internet Computing, 7(5):34--41, 2003.

by
José M. Vidal


Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, USA.
http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 13.
• and his slides.
• An excellent resource is Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton and Barto (free!).

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 12.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 11.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 10.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 9.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 8.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 7.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 6.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 4.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 3.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 2.
• and his slides.

This talk is based on

• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill. 1997. Chapter 1.
• and his slides.

We summarize the research interests of Dr. José M Vidal and the Multiagent Dynamics Laboratory (MDL) as of November 2002.

You can find these slides at http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/talks/researchsum/

This talk summarizes the results that appear in

• José M. Vidal. The effects of cooperation on multiagent search in task-oriented domains. In Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference, 2002.
• José M. Vidal. The effects of cooperation on multiagent search in task-oriented domains. Technical report, USC, 2002. USC CSE TR-2002-013.

This talk summarizes material from:

• Fabio Bellifemine, Agostino Poggi, and Giovanni Rimassa. JADE - A FIPA-compliant agent framework. 1999.
• Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Tiziana Truco, and Giovanni Rimasa. JADE Programmer's Guide. 2002.
• Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Tiziana Truco, and Giovanni Rimasa. JADE Administrators's Guide. 2002.
• Giovanni Caire. JADE Tutorial: Application-Defined Content Languages and Ontologies. 2002.

This talk introduces the basic architecture for FIPA-OS. It summarizes the material from:

• P. Buckle and R. Hadingham. FIPA-OS: FIPA Everywhere. 1999. Presentation.
• FIPA-OS Developer's Guide.
• FIPA-OS Tutorials.
• The FIPA-OS homepage.
• The FIPA-OS Javadocs.

This talks summarizes material from:

• C. Ronald Kube and Eric Bonabeau. Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems,:85--101, 2000.

This talk summarizes information from:

• Nicholas R. Jennings. On agent-based software engineering. Artificial Intelligence,(117):277--296, 2000.

This talk summarizes:

• David Wolpert, Kevin Wheeler, and Kagan Tumer. General Principles of Learning-Based Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents,:77--83, 1999.
• David Wolpert and Kagan Tumer. Optimal Payoff Functions for Members of Collectives. Advances in Complex Systems, 2001.

This talks covers bargaining, task allocation, and coalition formation. It summarizes material from:

• Gerhard Weiss. Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press. 1999. Chapter 5.5-5.7

This talk summarizes material from:

• H. Van Dyke Parunak. ``Go to the Ant'': Engineering Principles from Natural Agent Systems. Annals of Operation Research,(75):69--101, 1997.

This talk gives a general overviow of Java I/O as used for distributed programming. It is based on:

• Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming, 2001. Chapter 4.
• IBM developerWorks Introduction to Java I/O.

Many of the pictures come from the developerWorks tutorial.

This talk summarizes material from

• Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming, 2001. Chapter 5.
• The Java Tutorial: Doing Two or More Tasks At Once

This talk summarizes material from:

• Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming, 2001. Chapter 7, 10, 11, 12, 13.
• IBM developerWorks, Java Sockets 101.

A quick guide to using Apache SOAP, based on:

• James Goodwill, Using SOAP with Tomcat.
• Apache SOAP User's Guide

This talk introduces the MICO CORBA implementation. More documentation is available at that website.

This talk summarizes material from:

• CORBA Technology and the Java 2 Platform. Sun Guide. 2002.
• Java IDL Documentation. Sun Guide. 2002.
• Getting Started with Java IDL. Sun Guide. 2002.
• IBM developerWorks RMI, CORBA, and Distributed Objects, 2000. (the CORBA parts).
• William Grosso, Java RMI, 2002. Chapter 23.
• RMI-IIOP Programmer's Guide. Sun Guide. 2002.

• José M. Vidal and Paul Buhler, Using Robocup to Teach Multiagent Systems and the Distributed Mindset, ACM Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2002.

This talk presents a quick overview of JXTA. It is based on:

• Li Gong. JXTA: A Network Programming Environment. IEEE Internet Computing, (5)3, pp. 88-95, 2001.

This talk summarizes material from:

• Andy Oram. Peer-to-Peer. O'Reilly. 2001. Chapter 1.
• Andy Oram. Gnutella and Freenet.