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• Schedule, Readings, and Notes
• Course-related On-line Resources

Course Information

Schedule of Classes (Fall 2002)

• 09/19/2002 Introduction
  • Intelligent Agents: An Introduction by Jane Hsu (pdf)
  • Review Chapters 1 & 2 from Russell & Norvig.
• 09/26/2002 Agent Theory and Architectures (pdf)
  • Intelligent Agents by M. Wooldridge. In G. Weiss, editor: Multiagent Systems, The MIT Press, April 1999. (Lecture Notes)
  • Assignment No.1
• 10/03/2002 Software Agents (pdf)
  • Review: AI Planning Techniques (ps)
  • A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet by O. Etzioni (U. of Washington, Seattle)
  • Software Agents Tutorial by Pattie Maes (MIT)
  • Assignment No.2
• 10/10/2002 Holiday
• 10/17/2002 Visions of Intelligent Agents
  • Video: Doing with images makes symbols by Alan Kay
  • Video: Knowledge Navigator by Apple Computers
  • Class will meet in Room 451 (Multimedia Center) in the university library.
• 10/24/2002 Intelligent Interface Agents (pdf)
  • Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload by P. Maes (MIT Media Lab) (pdf)
  • Letizia: An Agent that Assists Web Browsing by H. Lieberman (MIT Media Lab) (Online Tutorial)
• 10/31/2002 Information Agents (pdf)
  • Ahoy! The Homepage Finder
  • InfoSleuth Agent System
  • Integrating Multiple Information Sources
  • Planning to Gather Information by C.T. Kwok and D.S. Weld (pdf)
• 11/07/2002 Embedded Agents (pdf)
  • Intelligence Without Representation by Rodney A. Brooks at the MIT AI Lab
  • Intelligence Without Reason (MIT AI Lab Memo 1293, April 1991)
  • A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot. (MIT AI Lab Memo 864, September 1985)
  • Humanoid Robots at RoboCup 2002
  • Term Project Specification
• 11/14/2002 Multiagent Systems (pdf)
  • The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure by Katia Sycara at The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Slides)
  • Multiagent Systems and Society of Agents by Michael N. Huhns and Larry M. Stephens
  • Multi-Agent Systems at CMU.
• 11/21/2002 Agent Communication (pdf)
  • KQML as An Agent Communication Language
  • KQML Software
  • FIPA The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
  • Agent Platform Implementations
  • Agent design due
• 11/28/2002 Midterm report
• 12/02/2002 Midterm report due
• 12/05/2002 Semantic Web (pdf)
  • The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila in Scientific American, May 2001.
  • DAML
• 12/12/2002 Personal Agents (pdf)
  • Concept Learning by Tom Mitchell
  • Instance Based Learning by Tom Mitchell
  • P@rty: A Personal Email Agent by Yu-hsiung Deng, Thong-han Tsai, and Jane Yung-jen Hsu (slides)
• 12/19/2002 Learning Agents (pdf)
  • Decision Tree Learning by T.M. Mitchell
  • Experience with a Learning Personal Assistant by T.M. Mitchell et al. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 81-91, July 1994.
  • Learning User's Scheduling Criteria in a Personal Calendar Agent by Shih-jui Lin and Jane Yung-jen Hsu (slides)
• 12/26/2002 Semantic Web Agents (pdf)
  • DAML Services
  • Presentation by Sheila MaIlraith, KSL, Stanford University
  • RETSINA Semantic Web Calendar Agent
  • Selected test data for the term project
• 01/02/2003 FAQ Agents (pdf)
  • Web Data Management
  • Template-Based Information Mining from HTML Documents by Jane Yung-jen Hsu and Wen-tau Yih, AAAI-97. (slides)
  • Automatic Generation of Tree-Structured Templates for Information Extraction from HTML Documents by S.L. Chuang
  • Query-Answering Algorithms for Information Agents by Alon Y. Halevy et al., AAAI-96.
• 01/09/2003
  • Project Presentaiton and Demo
• 01/13/2003 Term project report due

Additional Readings

Agent-Related On-line Resources

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