Reading Schedule

1. Week 1 (Jan 6): Introduction to MAS
   • Katia Sycara, Multiagent Systems, AI Magazine 19(2): Summer 1998, p.79-92
   • Rod Brooks, I, Rod Brooks, am a Robot, IEEE Spectrum, June 2008
2. Week 2 (Jan 13): Introduction to Planning
   • Reading: D. Nau, Current trends in automated planning, AI Magazine, Winter 2007
   • Reading: J-P. Kelly, A. Boea, and S. Koenig, Offline planning with HTNs in Video Games, AIIDE 2008
   • Tip: J. Mankoff, Advice on understanding related work
   • Tip: Research skills and talks
3. Week 3 (Jan 20): Planning: Graphplan and UCT
   • MLK holiday
   • Reading: A. Blum and M. Furst, Fast planning through graph plan analysis, AIJ 1990: pp.281-300
   • Reading: K. Laviers and G. Sukthankar, A Monte Carlo Approach for Football Play Generation, AIIDE 2010
4. Week 4 (Jan 27): Trading Agent Competition
   • Reading: A. Greenwald and P. Stone, Autonomous Bidding Agents in the Trading Agent Competition IEEE Internet Computing, 5(2), March/April 2001
   • Reading: A. Greenwald and J. Boyan Bidding Under Uncertainty: Theory and Experiments In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2004), pp. 209-216.
   • Reading: A. Greenwald, S. Lee, and V. Narioditskiy RoxyBot-06: Stochastic Prediction and Optimization in TAC Travel In JAIR 2009: pp. 513-546
5. Week 5 (Feb 3): Supply Chain Management and Ad Auctions
   • Reading: David Pardoe and Peter Stone. An Autonomous Agent for Supply Chain Management. In Handbooks in Information Systems Series: Business Computing, Elsevier, 2007
   • Reading: D. Pardoe, D. Chakraborty, and P. Stone. TacTex09: A Champion Bidding Agent for Ad Auction, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010), May 2010
6. Week 6 (Feb 10): 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: J.,Wang, M. Lewis, and P. Scerri. Cooperating robots for search and rescue, Proceedings of the AAMAS 1st International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management, 2006, 92-99.
   • Reading: P. MacAlpine, F. Barrera, and P. Stone. Positioning to Win: A Dynamic Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System, Proceedings of the Robocup International Symposium, Mexico, June 2012
7. Week 7 (Feb 17): Starcraft Competition; Reinforcement Learning
   • Reading: D. Churchill and M. Buro. Incorporating Search Algorithms into RTS Game Agents. AIIDE Workshop on RTS Games 2012
   • 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: Reinforcement Learning: an Introduction (Chapter 6)
   • 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.
8. Week 8 (Feb 24): Transfer Learning and CBR
   • Reading: Matthew Taylor and Peter Stone An Introduction to Intertask Transfer for Reinforcement Learning. In AI Magazine, Vol 32, Number 1, Spring 2011
   • Reading: Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Cross-Domain Transfer for Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning, June 2007
   • Reading: Matthew Molineaux, David W. Aha, Philip Moore, Learning Continuous Action Models in a Real-Time Strategy Environment, Proceedings of FLAIRS, 2008, pp.257-262
9. Spring Break (Mar 3-8)
10. Week 9 (Mar 10): Robotics: Path Planning
    • Reading: S. Koenig and M. Likhachev, Real-time Adaptive A*, Proceedings of AAMAS 2006
    • Reading: S.M. LaValle and J.J Kuffner. Randomized kinodynamic planning. In Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99), Detroit, MI, May 1999
    • Reading: R. Murphy, Introduction to AI Robotics, Metric Planning (Chapter 10)
11. Week 10 (Mar 17): 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.
12. Week 11 (Mar 24): No class
13. Week 12 (Mar 31): 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
14. Week 13 (Apr 7): Human-Robot Interaction
    • Reading: F. Doshi and N. Roy, Efficient Model Learning for Dialog Management Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007) March 2007.
15. Week 14 (Apr 14): Wrapup and Student Presentations
16. Final Exam (Apr 23, 10:00am-12:50pm)
17. Final Project (Apr 28)

Presentation Schedule