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CSCE475/875 Multiagent Systems Fall 2007

HANDOUTS PAGE

• Handout 1: Resources in Agents and Multiagent Systems (August 27, 2007)

• Handout 2: Some Real World Examples (August 27, 2007)

• Readings #1:
  Miller, P. (2007). Swarm Theory, National Geographic, 208(7):126-147.

• Readings #2:
  Huhns, M. and M. Singh (1998). Agents and Multiagent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges, in Huhns, M. and M. Singh (eds.) Readings in Agents, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 1-23. (September 9, 2006)

• Readings #3:
  Clutoon-Brock, T. (2002). Meerkats, National Geographic, 202(3):52-73. (August 31, 2007)

• Handout 3: Meerkats (August 31, 2007)

• Readings #4:
  Holland, J. S. (2003). Zebras, National Geographic, 204(3):30-43. (August 31, 2007)

• Handout 4: Zebras (August 31, 2007)

• Handout 5: Notes on Chapter 2 (September 3, 2007)

• Readings #5:
  Koehler, J. and D. Ottiger (2002). An AI-Based Approach to Destination Control in Elevators, AI Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp.59-78. (September 5, 2007)

• Readings #6:
  Automated Decision-Making: The Death of Expertise, a book review on "Super Crunchers" written by IanAyres, in The Economist, September 15th, 2007, p. 103. (September 19, 2007)

• Handout 6: Distributed Planning (September 24, 2007)

• Handout 7: Previous Stupid Questions (September 26, 2007)

• Handout 8: Distributed Planning and Execution (September 26, 2007)

• Readings #7:
  Furtado, V. and E. Vasconcelos (2006). A Multiagent Simulator for Teaching Police Allocation, 27(3):63-74. (September 28, 2007)

• Readings #8:
  Sandholm, T. (2007). Expressive COmmerce and Its Application to Sourcing: How We Conducted $35 Billion of Generalized Combinatorial Auctions, 28(3):45-58. (September 28, 2007)

• Handout 9: Search Algorithms in Agents (October 1, 2007)

• Handout 10: Multiagent Constraint Satisfaction (October 3, 2007)

• Handout 11: Rock the Vote! (October 8, 2007)

• Handout 12: Agony, Agony, Agony (October 8, 2007)

• Handout 13: Let's Bargain! (October 15, 2007)

• Readings #9:
  From CNNMoney, Visions of 8 Robocars for the future (October 17, 2007)

• Handout 14: Let's Go to the Market! (October 17, 2007)

• Handout 15: Contract Nets (October 19, 2007)

• Handout 16: Coalition Formation (October 26, 2007)

• Readings #10:
  Real-world modeling for negotiations for situation analyses (November 2, 2007)
  • Article 1
  • Article 2

• Handout 17: Auction Day Analysis (October 31, 2007)

• Handout 18: Learning and Communications (November 07, 2007)

• Readings #11:
  Associated Press: "Union worried Selig, teams might collude to keep A-Rod's price down, on http://espn.com. (November 09, 2007)

• Handout 19: Contract Day Analysis (November 19, 2007)

• Handout 20: Cooperation Day Analysis (December 03, 2007)

• Readings #12:
  Anderson, M. and S. L. Anderson (2007). Machine Ethics: Creating an Ethical Intelligent Agent, AI Magazine, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 15-26.

• Readings #13:
  Jonsson, A., R. A. Morris,and l. Pedersen (2007). Autonomy in Space Current Capabilities and Future Challenges, AI Magazine, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 27-42.

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