Reading Schedule
- Week 1 (Jan 9): Introduction to MAS
- Week 2 (Jan 16): Introduction to Planning
- Week 3 (Jan 23): Planning: Graphplan and UCT
- Week 4 (Jan 30): Trading Agent Competition
- Week 5 (Feb 6): Supply Chain Management and Agent Reputation and Trust
- Reading: David Pardoe and Peter Stone. An Autonomous Agent for Supply Chain
Management. In Handbooks in Information Systems Series: Business Computing, Elsevier, 2007
- Reading: Teacy, W. T. L., T. D. Huynh, R. K. Dash, N. R. Jennings, J.
Patel, and M. Luck. The ART of IAM: The
Winning Strategy for the 2006 Competition, The Workshop on Trust in
Agent Societies at The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 15,
pp. 102-111
- Week 6 (Feb 13): Robocup Soccer and Urban Rescue
- Reading: Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, and Patrick Riley. The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator
Team. In M. Asada and H.Kitano, editors, RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World
Cup II Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 61.76, Springer Verlag
1999.
- Reading: Wang, J., Lewis, M., and Scerri, P. (2006). Cooperating robots for search and rescue,
Proceedings of the AAMAS 1st International Workshop on Agent Technology for
Disaster Management, 92-99.
- Week 7 (Feb 20): Reinforcement Learning
- Reading: Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, and Andrew W. Moore. Reinforcement learning: a survey. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 4:237--285, May
1996
- Reading: J. Reeder, G. Sukthankar, M. Georgiopoulos, and C. Anagnostopoulos, Intelligent Trading Agents for Massively Multi-player Game Economies. In Proceedings of AI in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), October 2008
- Reading: Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning. In Minoru Asada and Hiroaki Kitano, editors, RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp 261-72, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999.
- Week 8 (Feb 27): Transfer Learning and CBR
- Spring Break (Mar 5-9)
- Week 9 (Mar 12): Robotics: Path Planning
- Week 10 (Mar 19): Robotics: Localization and SLAM
- Reading: D. Fox, W. Burgard, F. Dellaert, S. Thrun, Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots, AAAI 1999
- Reading: D. Haehnel, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun, An Efficient FastSLAM Algorithm for Generating Maps of Large-scale Cyclic Environments From Raw Laser Range Measurements, IROS-03.
- Week 11 (Mar 26) Robotics: Multi-robot Coordination
- Reading: N. Kalra, R. Zlot, and B. Dias, Market-based Multirobot Coordination: A Comprehensive Survey, IEEE Special Issue on Multirobot Coordination, July 2006
- Reading: M. Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, and K. Sycara. Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue Robotics, in Proceedings of ICRA 2006, Orlando, FL, May 2006, pp. 3977-3982
- Week 12 (Apr 2): Human-Robot Interaction
- Week 13 (Apr 9): Emulating Humans: Emotion
- Week 14 (Apr 16): Emulating Humans: Teamwork and Intention
Recognition
- Final Exam (Apr 25): 10am-12:50