| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
| Aug. 26 |
Introduction to MultiAgent Systems |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction
to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapters 1-2.
|
PS 0 due |
| Aug. 28 |
NetLogo |
NetLogo User's Manual
|
|
| Sep. 2 |
No classes |
|
|
| Sep. 4 |
Reasoning Agents |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction
to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapters 3-4.
|
PS 1 due |
| Sep. 9 |
Reasoning Agents (cont.)
Reactive and Hybrid Agents |
Ibid. Chapters 3-5 |
|
| Sep. 11 |
Agent Communication |
Ibid. Chapter 8.
FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification. 2001.
FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification. 2001.
FIPA Interaction Protocol Library Specification. 2001.
FIPA Contract Net Interaction Protocol Specification. 2001.
FIPA Iterated Contract Net Interaction Protocol Specification. 2001.
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.
|
|
| Sep. 16 |
Agent Communication (cont.)
FIPA
|
Jonathan Dale and Ebrahim Mamdani.
Open
Standards for Interoperating Agent-Based Systems.
Software Focus, 1(2), 2001.
|
|
| Sep. 18 |
JADE |
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.
|
PS 2 due |
| Sep. 23 |
JADE (cont.),
Semantic Web
|
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.
The Semantic Web: Technetcast video of Tim Berners-Lee's talk for XML2000. 7 Dec 2000.
|
|
| Sep. 25 |
XML, RDF, DAML
|
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.
Frank van Harmelen, Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
and Ian Horrocks. DAML+OIL
Walkthru. 2001.
|
|
| Sep. 30 |
XML, RDF, DAML (cont.)
DAML-S |
The DAML Services Coalition. DAML-S 0.6:
Technical Overview and WalkThrough
|
|
| Oct. 2 |
Game Theory
|
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction
to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. Chapter 6.
|
|
| Oct. 7 |
Questions. |
Time for you to bring forth your questions, complaints, and pet-peeves about the class.
|
PS 3 due (Jade) |
| Oct. 9 |
Test 1 |
|
|
| Oct. 14 |
No classes |
|
|
| Oct. 16 |
Robocup, Biter |
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.
Soccerserver
Manual
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.
|
|
| Oct. 21 |
Auctions |
Peter R. Wurman,
Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh. Specifying
Rules for Electronic Auctions. AI Magazine, Fall;
23(3):15--23, 2002.
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons;. 2002. Chapter 7.2
|
|
| Oct. 23 |
Negotiation |
Ibid. Chapter 7.3 |
PS 4 due |
| Oct. 28 |
Cooperation in Task-Oriented Domains,
Voting
|
José M. Vidal.
The effects of
cooperation on multiagent search in task-oriented domains.
Technical report, USC, 2002. USC CSE TR-2002-013. You
will not be tested on this reading.
Gerhard Weiss. Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press. 1999. Chapter 5.1--5.3
Is there a fair voting system?. Scientific American asks the experts.
Economist. Democratic Symmetry: The Mathematics of Voting. The Economist,:83, 2000.
|
|
| Oct. 30 |
Learning in Multiagent Systems |
José M. Vidal.
Learning in multiagent
systems: An introduction from a game-theoretic perspective.
In Eduardo Alonso, editor, Adaptive Agents. Springer Verlag, 2003.
to appear.
Gerhard Weiss. Multiagent
Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial
Intelligence. MIT Press. 1999. Chapter 6.
|
|
| Nov. 4 |
Search Algorithms
|
Gerhard Weiss. Multiagent
Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial
Intelligence. MIT Press. 1999. Chapter 4.
|
|
| Nov. 6 |
Search Algorithms (cont.) |
Ibid. |
PS 5 due |
| Nov. 11 |
Distributed Problem Solving |
Gerhard Weiss. Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press. 1999. Chapter 3.
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons; 2002. Chapter 9.
|
|
| Nov. 13 |
Agent Development Pitfalls |
Ibid. Chapter 10.
|
|
| Nov. 18 |
Agent Applications |
Ibid. Chapter 11. |
|
| Nov. 20 |
Questions |
|
|
| Nov. 25 |
Test 2 |
|
|
| Nov. 27 |
No classes |
|
PS 6 due |
| Dec. 2 |
No classes: Prepare for tournament. |
|
|
| Dec. 4 |
No classes: Prepare for tournament. |
|
|
| Dec. 6 |
Robocup Tournament |
To be held in one of the Unix labs on the first floor from 1pm-3pm.
|
|
| Dec. 11 |
No classes |
|
FP due |
