| Date | Material Covered | Reading | Homework |
| Aug. 24 | Introduction to MAS, RoboCup, and Biter. | Chp. 1, Soccerserver Manual, and Biter API. | |
| Aug. 29 | Biter review. Agent Architectures Intro. | ||
| Aug. 31 | Logic and Reactive architectures. | Chp. 1.3-1.4 | |
| Sept. 5 | BDI and Layered architectures. AOP. | 1.5-2.2 | PS1 due (Programming) |
| Sept. 7 | Intro to MAS. Languages | Chp. 2.1-2.2 FIPA.org KQML | |
| Sept. 12 | Fipa. Contract Net | Chp. 2.3 | PS2 due |
| Sept. 14 | Blackboards, Negotiation, MAS TMS | Chp 2.3.4- 2.4 | |
| Sept. 19 | Task Sharing | Chp. 3 | PS3 due (Programming) |
| Sept. 21 | Swarm Robotics, Stigmergy, Self-Organization. Search Algorithms. | Cooperative Transport by
Ants and Robots and Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects |
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| Sept. 26 | PS4 due | ||
| Sept. 28 | Search Algorithms | Chp. 4 | |
| Oct. 3 | Search Algorithms. | Chp. 4 | |
| Oct. 5 | Drop date Robocup case studies. | The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team. | |
| Oct. 10 | Robocup case studies. | The CMUnited-99 Champion Simulator Team The magmafreiburg soccer team. BDI design principles and cooperative implementation in robocup | PS5 due (Programming) |
| Oct. 12 | Intro to Game theory. Distributed Rational Decision Making | Chp. 5 | |
| Oct. 17 | No Classes | ||
| Oct. 19 | Presentations | Final Project Proposal due. | |
| Oct. 24 | Presentations. | ||
| Oct. 26 | Distributed Rational Decision Making | Chp. 5. Democratic symmetry: The mathematics of voting - Is there a fair voting system? Scientic American asks the experts. | |
| Oct. 31 | Distributed Rational Decision Making- Voting | Chp. 5.3 | PS6 due |
| Nov. 2 | Distributed Rational Decision Making- Auctions | Chp. 5.4 | |
| Nov. 7 | No Classes | ||
| Nov. 9 | Distributed Rational Decision Making- Bargaining, Market Equilibrium | Chp. 5.6-5.7 | |
| Nov. 14 | Distributed Rational Decision Making | Chp. 5 | PS7 due |
| Nov. 16 | Distributed Rational Decision Making | Chp. 5, On agent-based software engineering | |
| Nov. 21 | No Class | ||
| Nov. 23 | No Class: Thanksgiving | ||
| Nov. 28 | No Class: Work on your project and presentation. | ||
| Nov. 30 | Final Project Presentations | Titans, Sharp Shooters, Gamecocks, Fox, AIBO | |
| Dec. 5 | Tournament: 1:00-4pm in 1D11 | ||
| Dec. 7 | Final Project Presentations | JNTU, Laker, Socceraets, Hunter, WildCats, Milan 2000 | |
| Dec. 12 | Final writeups due at 10am |
