CPE/CSC 580       Winter 2004       Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Agents   Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Agents  
                       
Week   Topic Readings   Lab Assignments Due   Student Presentations  
    Date       Projects     Last Name, First Name Topic
1 Tue 1/6 Introduction RN 2; Weiss 1;   Accounts on counties Assignment 1   A    
        L. Foner "What's an Agent, Anyway?"     Project Selections   B    
  Thu 1/8 Introduction     Agent Toolkits installation ?   A    
            IBM Aglets, Jade   B    
2 Tue 1/13 Agent Architectures RN 2.3; Weiss 1.4;         A    
        Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Representation", Artificial Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, pp. 139-159.     Project Requirements   B    
  Thu 1/15 Multi-Agent Systems         Project MS Week 2 A    
              Peer Evaluation   B    
3 Tue 1/20 Problem-Solving Agents RN 3, 4; Weiss 3, 5;     Assignment 2   A    
        Pynadath, D. and Tambe, M. Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing key teamwork theories and models First Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Conference (AAMAS), 2002         B    
  Thu 1/22 Problem-Solving Agents         Assignment 1 A    
                  B    
4 Tue 1/27 Knowledge-Based Agents RN 6; Weiss 8         A    
        Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler And Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web" Scientific American, May 2001.     Prototype Alpha   B    
  Thu 1/29 Knowledge-Based Agents R.K. Belew, "Finding Out About" Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000 (Chapter 1).       Project MS Week 4 A    
        Natalya Fridman Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, "Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology"     Peer Evaluation   B    
5 Tue 2/3 Planning Agents RN 11, 12; Weiss 3;     Assignment 3 Assignment 2 A    
        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.         B    
  Thu 2/5 Planning Agents           A    
                  B    
6 Tue 2/10 Midterm Midterm date change from Thu, 2/5 to Tue, 2/10.         A Midterm  
              Prototype Beta   B    
  Thu 2/12 Learning Agents         Project MS Week 6 A Keith Hoffman Hidden Markov Models or Bioinformatics
              Peer Evaluation   B Ryan Rooke Mars Rover
7 Tue 2/17 Communicating Agents RN 22; Weiss 2.2, 2.3     Assignment 4   A Brandon Wirick Integration of Agent Environments and Rule-Based Systems
                  B    
  Thu 2/19 Communicating Agents         Assignment 3 A Mike Bradley MANETs - Ad Hoc Networks
                  B    
8 Tue 2/24 Mobile Agents           A James Patterson Software Engienering of Intelligent Agents
              Project Final Version   B    
  Thu 2/26 Mobile Agents         Project MS Week 8 A Graham O'Daniel Autonomous Vehicles (LA to Las Vegas Race)
              Peer Evaluation   B    
9 Tue 3/2 Implementation Languages for Agents Weiss 12         A Jeff Bergamini Knowledge Mining
                  B    
  Thu 3/4 Implementation Languages for Agents       Assignment 4 A Brian Wood Agent-Based Simulations in Social Science
                  B    
10 Tue 3/9 Agent Applications Weiss 377   Project Presentations   A Matt Mahony Chatterbot Agents
                  B    
  Thu 3/11 Agent Applications     Project Presentations Project MS Week 10 A Group Presentations  
              Peer Evaluation   B    
11 Fri 3/21 Final Exam             Final Exam