| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignment/Project |
Due |
| 1 | April 2 |
Introduction |
RN 2; Weiss 1;
L. Foner "What's an Agent, Anyway?" |
Project Overview |
|
| 2 | April 9 |
Agent Architectures |
RN 2.3; Weiss 1.4;
Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Representation", Artificial Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, pp. 139-159. |
Selection and Requirements |
April 23 |
| 3 | April 16 |
Problem-Solving Agents |
RN 3, 4; Weiss 3, 5;
Pynadath, D. and Tambe, M. Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing key teamwork
theories and models First Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Conference
(AAMAS), 2002
|
Assignment 1 |
April 30 |
| 4 | April 23 |
Knowledge-Based Agents |
RN 6; Weiss 8
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler And Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web" Scientific American, May 2001.
R.K. Belew, "Finding Out About" Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000 (Chapter 1).
Natalya Fridman Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness,
"Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology"
|
Prototype |
May 14 |
| 5 | April 30 |
Planning Agents |
RN 11, 12; Weiss 3;
M. E. Pollack and J. F. Horty, "There's More to Life than Making Plans: Plan Management in Dynamic, Multi-Agent Environments," AI Magazine, 20(4):71-84, 1999.
|
Midterm |
May 7 |
| 6 | May 7 |
Learning Agents |
RN 18, 19; Weiss 259 |
Assignment 2 |
May 21 |
| 7 | May 14 |
Communicating Agents |
RN 22; Weiss 2.2, 2.3 |
Evaluation |
May 28 |
| 8 | May 21 |
Mobile Agents |
|
Final Documentation |
June 4 |
| 9 | May 28 |
Implementation Languages for Agents |
Weiss 12 |
Project Presentations |
|
| 10 | June 4 |
Agent Applications |
Weiss 377 |
Project Presentations |
|
| 11 | June 11 |
Final Exam Week |
all of the above |
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