• About the Course
• Schedule
• Course-related On-line Resources

Course Information

Instructor: Prof. Jane Yung-jen Hsu

• Email: yjhsu@csie.ntu.edu.tw
• Room 331, CSIE Building
• 886-2-2362-5336 x 331
• 886-2-2362-8167 fax

TAs:

• Wan-rong Jih
  • Email: jih@agents.csie.ntu.edu.tw
  • Room 120, CSIE Building
• Jeng-sheng Yeh
  • Email: jsyeh@cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw

Schedule of Classes (Fall 2002)

• 09/19/2002 Introduction
  • Intelligent Agents: An Introduction by Jane Hsu
  • Review Chapters 1 & 2 from Russell & Norvig.
• 09/26/2002 Agent Theory and Architectures
  • Intelligent Agents by M. Wooldridge. In G. Weiss, editor: Multiagent Systems, The MIT Press, April 1999.
  • Homework Assignment No.1
• 10/03/2002 Software Agents
  • A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet by O. Etzioni (U. of Washington, Seattle)
  • Software Agents Tutorial by Pattie Maes (MIT)
  • Midterm Report Requirements
• 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
• 10/24/2002 Intelligent Interface Agents
  • Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload by P. Maes (MIT Media Lab)
  • Intelligent Interface Agents by H. Lieberman
• 10/31/2002 Information Agents
  • Planning to Gather Information
  • Integrating Multiple Information Sources
• 11/07/2002 Embedded Agents
  • A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot. (MIT AI Lab Memo 864, September 1985) by Rodney A. Brooks
  • Intelligence Without Reason
  • Intelligence Without Representation
• 11/14/2002 Multiagent Systems
  • Architecture
  • Formal Specifications
• 11/21/2002 Agent Communication
  • KQML as An Agent Communication Language
  • FIPA Standards
• 11/28/2002 Semantic Web
  • DAML
• 12/05/2002 Personal Assistants
  • Calendar Agents
  • Multiagent scheduling
• 12/12/2002 Adaptive Agents
  • User Profiling
  • Learning in Information Agents
• 12/19/2002 Information Extraction
  • FAQ Agents
  • Email Agents
• 12/26/2002 Applications
  • Agents for telecommunication
  • Agent-oriented programming
• 01/02/2003
  • Project Presentaiton and Demo (I)
• 01/09/2003
  • Project Presentation and Demo (II)

Additional Readings

Agent-Related On-line Resources

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