Instructor: Keith Decker | |
Office: Room 204, The Green House (77 E. Delaware) | |
Hours: T/Th 1:00pm-2:00pm | |
Phone: 831-1959 | |
Email: decker@cis.udel.edu |
DATE | TOPIC | READING | PERSON |
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2/11 | Introduction | Decker | |
2/13 | What is an Agent | Intelligent
Agents = Stupid Humans?, Wired. Especially the two position papers,
Intelligent
Software by Pattie Maes, and Agents
of Alienation, by Jaron Lanier.
Artificial intelligence research now driven by entertainment industry Julia: A Sociological Case Study, Lenny Foner. Especially the first and last parts. IntelligentAgents: Theory and Practice, Wooldridge & Jennings (through page 10) |
Decker |
2/18 | Micro-Theory Overview | IntelligentAgents: Theory and Practice, Wooldridge & Jennings, 1995 | Decker |
2/20 | Macro-Theory Overview | Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective, Stone & Veloso, 1996 | Decker |
2/25 | Decison Theory | "Making Simple Decisions," Chapter 16, AI a Modern Approach, Russel & Norvig | Carpenter |
2/27 | Game Theory | "Decision Procedures," Ginsburg, in Distributed AI Vol. I, ed.
Huhns1987
Note: This paper didn't work very well. If I do this again, I'd use two of Jeff Rosenschein's papers (Coop w/o Communication, and one other) |
Li |
3/4 | Economic Theory | "A Market-Oriented Programming Environment and Its Application to Distributed Multicommodity Flow Problems," Wellman, JAIR ,1993 | Murthy |
3/6 | Intentions | "Persistence, Intention, and Commitment," Cohen & Levesque, in Intentions in Communication, eds. Cohen, Morgan, & Pollack, 1990 | Harvey |
3/11 | Intentions
(guest lecture) |
"On Acting Together," Levesque, Cohen, & Nunes, AAAI-90
"Tracking Dynamic Team Activity," Tambe, AAAI-96 Note: I moved this class up to use our two guest speakers. Normally this material would come after the Grosz & Kraus paper below. |
Denny Rock
Jeff Bradshaw |
3/13 | Intentions | "Collaborative Plans for Group Activities," Grosz & Kraus, IJCAI-93
For more background and detail, glance at "Collaborative Plans for Complex Group Action," Grosz & Kraus, especially the intro and concluding material. (1995) |
Barbour |
3/18 | NO CLASS | ||
3/20 | NO CLASS | ||
3/24 | Class is rescheduled for 1:00pm
Communication |
"KQML as an
Agent Communication Language," Finin, McKay, McEntire 1994
Proposed KQML Specification Document, Labrou (based on the Finin et al. draft) 1996 |
Barbour |
3/24 | Class is rescheduled for 1:00pm
Communication |
"Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents," Cohen & Levesque, ICMAS-95 | Decker |
3/25 | Negotiation: Contracting | "Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving," Davis & Smith, Artificial Intelligence 20(1), 1983 | Fickelscherer |
3/25 | PROJECT PROPSALS DUE TODAY | ||
3/27 | Negotiation: Contracting | "Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework," Sandholm ICMAS-95 | Carpenter |
4/1 | Spring Break | ||
4/3 | Spring Break | ||
4/8 | Negotiation: Game Theoretic Approach | "Mechanisms for Automated Negotiation in State-Oriented Domains," Zlotkin & Rosenschein, JAIR 5,1996. | Li |
4/10 | Negotiation: Compromise | "A Generic Model for IntelligentNegotiating Agents," Laasri, Laasri, & Lesser, IJICIS 1(2) 1992 | Murthy |
4/15 | Negotiation: Cooperation | "Supporting Conflict resolution in Cooperative design Systems," Klein, IEEE-SMC 21(6) 1991. | Harvey |
4/17 | Coordination | "Coordination Techniques for DAI," Jennings, in Foundations of DAI, eds. O'Hare & Jennings 1996. | Fickelscherer |
4/22 | Coordination | "Partial Global Planning: A Coordination framework for Distributed Hypothesis Formation," Durfee, IEEE-SMC 21(5) 1991. | Li |
4/24 | Coordination | "Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms," Decker, ICMAS-95 | Carpenter |
4/29 | Coordination | "The Automated Mapping of Plans to Belief Networks", Huber, Durfee, & Wellman, DAI Workshop 1994 | Decker |
5/1 | Organization | "Organizational Intelligence and DAI," Kirn, in Foundations of DAI, eds. O'Hare & Jennings 1996. | Barbour |
5/6 | Organization | "Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory: Perspective and
Directions," Carley, Computatoinal and Mathematical Organization Theory
1(1) 1995
NOTE: This paper and the previous one should be done together, in one class. |
Murthy |
5/8 | Applications | Meeting Scheduling
"An Automated Distributed meeting Scheduler," Sandip Sen, IEEE Expert. Presenter should see me for some more detailed info. "Multi-agent meeting scheduling: preliminary results" L. Garrido and K. Sycara ICMAS-96 |
Fickelscherer |
5/13 | Applications | DVMT: The Distributed Vehicle Monitoring Testbed
"Coherent Cooperation Among Communicating Problem Solvers," E.H. Durfee, V.R. Lesser, and D.D. Corkill, IEEE TOC 1987 "An approach to analyzing the need for meta-level communication," Decker and Lesser, IJCAI-93, AAAI-93 (combined TR) NOTE: Yikes! Do these papers on TWO days. We could have profitably spent 3 days in this material! |
Carpenter
Harvey |
5/15 | Applications | ARCHON, Nick Jennings et al., IEEE Expert 12/96. | Barbour |
5/20 | Applications | WARREN
"Designing Behaviors for Information Agents," Decker, Pannu, Sycara, Williamson. Proc. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents, 1997. "Modeling Information Agents: Advertisements, Organizational Roles, and Dynamic Behavior," Decker, Sycara, Williamson. AAAI-96 Workshop on Agent Modeling. "Middle-Agents for the Internet", Decker, Sycara, Williamson. To appear, IJCAI-97. NOTE: some more background on the plan/execution system would have been helpful. Add one of Mike Williamson's papers, probably Unified Information and Control Flow in HTNs. |
Fickelscherer
Harvey |