CSCE 475/896

Handout 1: Resources in Agents and Multiagent Systems

August 26, 2003

 

1.         Introduction

 

This resource document is by no means complete.  It consists of three categories: (1) people in the research areas of agents and multiagent systems, (2) papers related to agents and multiagent systems, and some distributed intelligent systems, suitable for the class, and (3) some relevant journals publishing agent-related papers.

 

2.         People

 

Andrzej Bieszczad

 

Affiliation

Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carlton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Homepage

http://www.sce.carleton.ca/netmanage/andrzej/

E-mail

andrzej@sce.carleton.ca

 

Edmund Durfee

 

Affiliation

EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Homepage

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/durfee/durfee.html

E-mail

durfee@umich.edu

 

Marco Dorigo (Ants Colony)

 

Affiliation

IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Homepage

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/

E-mail

mdorigo@ulb.ac.be

 

Peyman Faratin

 

Affiliation

Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan School of Management,

Cambridge, MA

Homepage

http://ccs.mit.edu/peyman/

E-mail

peyman@mit.edu

 

Michel Genesereth

 

Affiliation

Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Homepage

http://logic.stanford.edu/people/genesereth/

E-mail

genesereth@cs.stanford.edu

 

Barbara Hayes-Roth

 

Affiliation

Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Homepage

http://ksl-web.stanford.edu/people/bhr/

E-mail

bhr@cs.stanford.edu, bhr@extempo.com

 

Michael Huhns

 

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Homepage

http://www.cse.sc.edu/~huhns/

E-mail

huhns@sc.edu

 

Nick Jennings

 

Affiliation

Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Homepage

http://www.mmrg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrj/

E-mail

nrj@ecs.soton.ac.uk

 

Sarit Kraus

 

Affiliation

Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Homepage

http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~sarit/

E-mail

sarit@cs.biu.ac.il

 

Victor Lesser

 

Affiliation

Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Homepage

http://dis.cs.umass.edu/lesser.html

E-mail

lesser@cs.umass.edu

 

David Musliner

 

Affiliation

Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN

Homepage

http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/musliner/

E-mail

musliner@htc.honeywell.com

 

Jeffrey Rosenschein

 

Affiliation

Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,  Israel  

Homepage

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~jeff/

E-mail

jeff@cs.huji.ac.il

 

Simon Parsons

 

Affiliation

Center for Co-ordination Science at MIT

Department of Computer Science at Columbia University

Homepage

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~sp/

E-mail

S.D.Parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk

 

Tuomas Sandholm

 

Affiliation

Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Homepage

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/

E-mail

sandholm@cs.cmu.edu

 

Sandip Sen

 

Affiliation

Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

Homepage

http://www.mcs.utulsa.edu/~sandip/

E-mail

sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu

 

Munindar Singh

 

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

Homepage

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/

E-mail

mpsingh@csc.ncsu.edu

 

Peter Stone

 

Affiliation

Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Homepage

www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone

E-mail

pstone@cs.utexas.edu

 

Katia Sycara

               

Affiliation

Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Language Technologies Institute (LTI)

Center for Advanced Learning and Discovery

Carnegie Mellon University

Homepage

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sycara/

E-mail

katia@cs.cmu.edu

 

Milind Tambe

 

Affiliation

Information Science Institute, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Homepage

http://www.isi.edu/soar/tambe/

E-mail

tambe@isi.edu

 

Manuela Veloso

 

Affiliation

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

Homepage

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/

E-mail

veloso@cs.cmu.edu

 

Michael Wooldridge

 

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK

Homepage

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw

E-mail

M.J.Wooldridge@csc.liv.ac.uk

 

3.         Papers


Agents

Genesereth, M. R. and S. P. Ketchpel (1994).  Software Agents, Communications of the ACM, 37(7):48-53. (geneserethketchpel1994.pdf)

Hwana, H. S. (1996).  Software Agents: An Overview, Knowledge Engineering Review, 11(3):1-40. (nwana1996.pdf)

Jennings, N. R., K. Sycara, and M. Wooldridge (1998).  A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 1(1):275-306.  (jenningsetal1998.ps)

Wooldridge, M. and N. R. Jennings (1995).  Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice, Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(2):115-152. (wooldridgejennings1995.pdf)

Multiagent Systems

Huhns, M. N. and M. P. Singh (1999).  A Multiagent Treatment of Agenthood, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13(1-2):3-10.  (hughsingh1999.pdf)

Jennings, N. R. (1993). Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 8(3):223-250.  (jennings1993.pdf)

Pynadath, D. and M. Tambe (2002).  The Communicative Multiagent Team Decision Problem: Analyzing Teamwork Theories and Models, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 1(6):389-423.  (pynadathtambe2002.pdf)

Sycara, K. (1998). Multiagent Systems, AI Magazine, 19(2):79-92.  (katia1998.pdf)

Sycara, K., K. Decker, A. Pannu, M. Williamson, and D. Zeng (1996).  Distributed Intelligent Agents, IEEE Expert, 11(6):36-46.  (sycaraetal1996.pdf)

Tambe, M. (1997).  Towards Flexible Teamwork, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 7:83-124.  (tambe1997.pdf)

Negotiations and Cooperation

Durfee, E. H., V. R. Lesser, and D. D. Corkill (1989).  Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1(1):63-83. (durfeeetal1989.pdf)

Faratin, P., C. Sierra, and N. R. Jennings (1998).  Negotiation Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents, Int. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 24(3-4):159-182. (faratinetal1998.pdf)

Faratin, P., C. Sierra, and N. R. Jennings (2002).  Using Similarity Criteria to Make Issue Trade-Offs in Automated Negotiations, Artificial Intelligence, 142:205-237.  (faratinetal2002.pdf)

Grosz, B. J., S. Kraus, D. G. Sullivan, and S. Das (2002).  The Influence of Social Norms and Social Consciousness on Intention Reconciliation, Artificial Intelligence, 142:147-177.  (groszetal2002.pdf)

Kraus, S. (1996).  Beliefs, Time and Incomplete Information in Multiple Encounter Negotiations among Autonomous Agents, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 20(1-4):111-159.  (kraus1996.pdf)

Kraus, S. (1997).  Negotiation and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Environments, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Economic Principles of Multi-Agent Systems, 94(1-2):79-98.  (kraus1997.pdf)

Kraus, S., K. Sycara, and A. Evenchik (1998).  Reaching Agreements through Argumentation: A Logical Model and Implementation, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 104(1-2):1-69.  (krausetal1998.pdf)

Parsons, S., C. Sierra and N. R. Jennings (1998).  Agents that Reason and Negotiate by Arguing, Journal of Logic and Computation, 8(3):261-292.  (parsonsetal1998.pdf)

Rosenschein, J. and G. Zlotkin (1994).  Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiations, AI Magazine, 15(3):29-46.  (rosensheinzlotkin1994.pdf)

Sandip, S. (2002).  Believing Others:  Pros and Cons, Artificial Intelligence, 142:179-203 (sandip2002.pdf)

Sen, S. and E. H. Durfee (1994).  The Role of Commitment in Cooperative Negotiation, International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3(1):67-81. (sendurfeee1994.pdf)

Stone, P., M. L. Littman, S. Singh, and M. Kearns (2001).  ATTac-2000:  An Adaptive Autonomous Bidding Agent, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 15:189-206.

Zeng, D. and K. Sycara (1998).  Bayesian Learning in Negotiation, Int. J. Human –Computer Studies, 48:125-141. (zengsycara1998.pdf)

Zlotkin, G. and J. S. Rosenschein (1991).  Cooperation and Conflict Resolution via Negotiation among Autonomous Agents in Noncooperative Domains, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6):1317-1324.  (zlotkinrosenschein1991.pdf)

Swarm

Tarasewich, P. and P. R. McMullen (2002).  Swarm Intelligence: Power in Numbers, Communications of the ACM, 45(8):62-67.

Dorigo, M., V. Maniezzo, and A. Colorni (1996).  The Ant System: Optimization by a Colony of Cooperating Agents, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B, 26(1):1-13.  (dorigoetal1996.pdf)

http://www.swarm.org

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/ACO.html

Robots

http://www.robocup.org/

Bojinov, H., A. Casal, T. Hogg (2002).  Multiagent Control of Self-Configurable Robots, Artificial Intelligence, 142:99-120.  (bojinovetal2002.pdf)

Learning

Alonso, E., M. d’Inverno, D. Kudenko, M. Luck, and J. Noble (2001).  Learning in Multi Agent Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 16(3):277-284.

Bowling, M. and M. Veloso (2002).  Multiagent Learning Using a Variable Learning Rate, Artificial Intelligence, 136:215-250.  (bowlingveloso2002.pdf)

Huhns, M. and G. Weiss (1998).  Guest Editorial on Multiagent Learning, Machine Learning (special issue on Multiagent Learning), 33(2-3):123-128.  (huhnsweiss1998.pdf)

Ontañón, S. and Enric Plaza (2003).  Collaborative Case Retention Strategies for CBR Agents, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR’03), LNAI 2689, July, 392-406.  (ontanonplaza2002.pdf)

Stone, P. and M. Veloso (2000).  Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective, Autonomous Robots, 8(3):345-383.  Also appears as Carnegie Mellon University CS technical report number CMU-CS-97-193. December, 1997. (stoneveloso2000.ps)

Vidal, J. M. and E. H. Durfee (2003).  Predicting the Expected Behavior of Agents that Learn about Agents: The CLRI Framework, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 6(1):77-107.  (vidaldurfee2003.pdf)

Real-Time

Hayes-Roth, B. (1990).  Architectural Foundations for Real-Time Performance in Intelligent Agents, Journal of Real-Time Systems, 2:99-125.  (hayesroth1990.pdf)

Musliner, D. J., E. H. Durfee, and K. G. Shin (1993).  CIRCA:  A Cooperative Intelligent Real-Time Control Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 23(6):1561-1574.  (muslineretal1993.pdf) 

Musliner, D.J., J. A. Hendler, A. K. Agrawala, E. H. Durfee, J. K. Strosnider, and C. J. Paul (1995).  The Challenges of Real-Time AI, IEEE Computer, 28(1):58-66.   Also appears as University of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR-3290 (UMIACS-TR-94-69).  (muslineretal1995.pdf)

Stone, P. and M. Veloso (1999).  Task Decomposition, Dynamic Role Assignment, and Low-Bandwidth Communication for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork, Artificial Intelligence, 100(2):241-273.  (stoneveloso1999.ps)

Monitoring

Kaminka, G. A., D. V. Pynadath, and M. Tambe (2002).  Monitoring Teams by Overhearing: A Multi-Agent Plan-Recognition Approach, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17:83-135.  (kaminkaetal2002.pdf)

Wilkins, D. E., T. J. Lee, and P. Berry (2003).  Interactive Execution Monitoring of Agent Teams, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 18:217-261.  (wilkinsetal2003.pdf)

Mobile Agents

Bieszczad, A., B. Pagurek, and T. White (1998).  Mobile Agents for Network Management, IEEE Communications Surveys, 1(1).  E-journal.  (bieszczadetal1998.pdf)

Fuggetta, A., G. P. Picco, and G. Vigna (1998).  Understanding Code Mobility, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24(5):42-361. (fuggettaetal1998.pdf)

Tsatsoulis and L.-K. Soh (2000). Intelligent Agents in Telecommunication Networks, in Computational Intelligence in Telecommunications Networks, W. Pedrycz and A. V. Vasilakos (eds.), CRC Press, Chapter 19, pp. 480-504.  (tsatsoulissoh2000.pdf)

 

4.         Journals

 

Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Journal of Artificial Intelligent Research

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal

Artificial Intelligence

The Knowledge Engineering Review

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Machine Learning

Communication of ACM

AI Magazine