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CSCE475/896 Multiagent Systems Fall 2003

• Handout 1: Resources in Agents and Multiagent Systems (August 26, 2003)

• Handout 2: Stupid Questions Fall 2002 (August 26, 2003)

• Readings #1:
  Forum: "The Difference between Intelligent Agents and Mobile Agents", Communications of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 9, pg. 14, (August 26, 2003)

• Readings #2:
  Cherry, S. (2002). Weaving a Web of Ideas, IEEE Spectrum, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 65-69. Especially the "Software Agents on a Semantic Web" on page 67. (August 28, 2003)

• Readings #3:
  The Japan Times Online (2003). 30-Year Robot Project Pitched, August 20, 2003. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ (September 2, 2003) (Recommended by Thomas Osugi)

• Handout 3: Some Real World Examples (September 2, 2003)

• Readings #4:
  Associated Press, CNN (2003). Push-Button Bugle to Play Taps at Military Funerals, http://www.cnn.com/ (September 9, 2003)

• Readings #5:
  IEEE Spectrum (2003). A Guitar So Good It Plays Itself, article by Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 40(9):15. (September 9, 2003)

• Readings #6:
  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, 2003)

• Readings #7:
  Clutoon-Brock, T. (2002). Meerkats, National Geographic, 202(3):52-73. (September 24, 2002)

• Handout 4: Meerkats (September 16, 2002)

• Readings #8:
  Holland, J. S. (2003). Zebras, National Geographic, 204(3):30-43. (September 16, 2002)

• Handout 5: Zebras (September 16, 2002)

• Readings #9:
  Soh, L.-K., C. Tsatsoulis, and H. Sevay (2003). A Satisficing, Learning, and Negotiated Coalition Formation Architecture, in Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective, V. Lesser, M. Tambe, and C. Ortiz (eds.), Kluwer Publishing, Chapter 7, pp. 109-138. (September 18, 2002)

• Handout 6: Distributed Planning and Execution (September 25, 2003)

• Handout 7: Einstein's Riddle (September 30, 2003)

• Readings #10:
  Rich, E. and K. Knight (1991). Heuristic Search Techniques, Chapter 3, in Artificial Intelligence, McGraw-Hill, pp. 63-82. (October 1, 2002)

• Handout 8: Search Algorithms in Agents (October 2, 2003)

• Handout 9: Agony, Agony, Agony (October 2, 2003)

• Handout 10: Let's Bargain! (October 7, 2003)

• Handout 11: Let's Go to the Market! (October 7, 2003)

• Readings #11:
  Ockenfels, A. and A. E. Roth (2002). The Timing of Bids in Internet Auctions: Market Design, Bidder Behavior, and Artificial Agents, AI Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp.79-87. (October 9, 2003)

• Handout 12: Let's Form a Coalition! (October 14, 2003)

• Handout 13: Auction Day Analysis (October 17, 2003)

• Readings #12:
  Koehler, J. and D. Ottiger (2002). An AI-Based Approach to Destination Control in Elevators, AI Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp.59-78. (October 3, 2002)

• Handout 14: Learning and Communications (October 28, 2003)

• Readings #13:
  IBM (2003). Agent Building and Learning Environment (November 4, 2003) (recommended by Suzette Person)

• Handout 15: Allocation Day Analysis (November 3, 2003)

• Handout 16: Coalition Day Analysis (November 14, 2003)

• Readings #14:
  Shenk, D. (2003). Watching You: The Wolrd of High-Tech Surveillance, National Geographic, 204(5):2-29 (November 20, 2003)

• Handout 17: Negotiation Day Analysis (November 26, 2003)

• Handout 18: Game Day League (November 26, 2003)

• Handout 19: Homework 3 Review: Agents or Not Agents? MAS or Not MAS? (December 11, 2003)

• Course Review (December 11, 2003)

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