| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
| Aug. 19 |
Multiagent Systems Introduction - Notes |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction
to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. Chapters 1-2.
Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. September 2003. Chapter 1.
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| Aug. 22 |
NetLogo for Building Prototype Multiagent Systems - Notes |
NetLogo Programmer's Manual |
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| Aug. 24 |
Multiagent Systems Introduction - Notes |
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| Aug. 26 |
Reasoning Agents - Notes |
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. |
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| Aug. 29 |
Reasoning Agents - Notes |
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| Aug. 31 |
Reactive and Hybrid Agents - Notes |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. Chapter 5. |
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| Sep. 2 |
Reactive and Hybrid Agents - Notes. Game Theory - Notes |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. Chapter 6. Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. Chapter 3. |
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| Sep. 5 |
No Class |
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| Sep. 7 |
Game Theory - Notes. |
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| Sep. 9 |
Game Theory - Notes. Coordination - Notes |
Nikos Vlassis. A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. Chapter 4. |
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| Sep. 12 |
Negotiation - Notes |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction
to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and Sons. 2002. (Chapter
7.3)
Randall Davis and Reid G. Smith. Negotiation
as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving.
Artificial Intelligence, 20p. 63--109, 1983.
Nicholas R. Jennings, Peyman Faratin, A. R. Lomuscio, Simon
Parsons, Michael Wooldridge, and Carles Sierra. Automated
Negotiation: Prospects Methods and Challenges. Group
Decision and Negotiation, 10(2):199--215, 2001.
Mark Klein, Peyman Faratin, Hiroki Sayama, and Yaneer Bar-Yam.
Negotiating
Complex Contracts. Group Decision and Negotiation,
March; 12p. 111--125, 2003. |
PS 1 due |
| Sep. 14 |
Negotiation - Notes |
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| Sep. 16 |
Negotiation - Notes |
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| Sep. 19 |
Auctions - Notes |
Michael Wooldridge. Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. John Wiley and
Sons. 2002. Chapter 7.2
Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh.
;Specifying Rules for Electronic Auctions. AI
Magazine, Fall; 23(3):15--23, 2002.
Tuomas Sandholm. An
Algorithm for Winner Determination in Combinatorial
Auctions. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p.
542--547, 1999.
Muralidhar V. Narumanchi and Jose M. Vidal. Algorithms
for Distributed Winner Determination In Combinatorial
Auctions. In Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
VII, 2005.
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| Sep. 21 |
Auctions - Notes |
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| Sep. 23 |
Auctions - Notes. Communications - Notes |
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. |
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| Sep. 26 |
Coalition Formation - Notes |
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 |
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| Sep. 28 |
Coalition Formation - Notes |
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| Sep. 30 |
Mechanism Design - Notes |
Nikos Vlassis. A Concise
Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed AI. September,
2003. Chapter 7
Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings, and David C. Parkes. Computational
Mechanism Design: A Call to Arms. IEEE Intelligent Systems,
January/February 18(6):40-47, 2003. |
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| Oct. 3 |
Mechanism Design - Notes |
|
PS 2 due |
| Oct. 5 |
Mechanism Design - Notes,
Voting - Notes |
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| Oct. 7 |
No Class |
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| Oct. 10 |
Questions |
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| Oct. 12 |
Test 1 |
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| Oct. 14 |
No Class |
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| Oct. 17 |
Distributed Constraints - Notes |
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| Oct. 19 |
Distributed Constraints - Notes |
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| Oct. 21 |
No Class |
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| Oct. 24 |
Distributed Constraints - Notes |
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PS 3 due |
| Oct. 26 |
Distributed Constraints - Notes |
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| Oct. 28 |
Distributed Constraints - Notes |
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| Oct. 31 |
Learning in Multiagent Systems - Notes |
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| Nov. 2 |
Learning in Multiagent Systems - Notes |
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| Nov. 4 |
Learning in Multiagent Systems - Notes |
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| Nov. 7 |
GPGP and TAEMS - Notes |
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| Nov. 9 |
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| Nov. 11 |
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| Nov. 14 |
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PS 4 due |
| Nov. 16 |
Questions |
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| Nov. 18 |
Test 2 |
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| Nov. 21 |
No Class |
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| Nov. 23 |
No Class |
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| Nov. 25 |
No Class |
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| Nov. 28 |
No Class. Work on Project. |
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| Nov. 30 |
No Class. Work on Project. |
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| Dec. 2 |
No Class. Work on Project. |
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| Dec. 9 |
No Class. FP Due. |
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FP Due. |
