Date

Topic

Readings

09/17/2003

Introduction to Agents

AIMA Chapters 1

09/24/2003

Intelligent Agents: Theory

Intelligent Agents by M. Wooldridge. In G. Weiss, editor: Multiagent Systems, The MIT Press, April 1999.

10/01/2003

Intelligent Agents: Architectures

Homework No.1

AIMA Chapter 2

10/08/2003

Software Agents

A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet by O. Etzioni (U. of Washington, Seattle)

Software Agents Tutorial by Pattie Maes (MIT)

Interview: Pattie Maes (IEEE Internet Computing)

10/15/2003

Personal Assistants: Calendar Agents

Homework No.2

Experience with a learning personal assistant by T. Mitchell et al.

10/22/2003

Email Agents

Web Search & Information Retrieval

Homework No.3

P@rty: a personal email agent by Y. Deng, T. Tsai & J. Hsu

The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page

How to Find Everything Online by Sean Carroll in PC Magazine

10/29/2003

FAQ Agents

Information Extraction

Template-based information mining from HTML documents by J. Hsu & W. Yih (slides)

Initial results on wrapping semi-structured Web pages with finite-state transducers and contextual rules by Chun-Nan Hsu (slides)

11/05/2003

Midterm

Solutions Part-1 Part-2

Open book and notes

Please respect the honor system.

11/12/2003

Agent Building Tools

Agent Communication

JADE

SoftMealy (aka Ocean Spray)

11/19/2003

Intelligent Interface Agents

Video: Doing with images makes symbols by Alan Kay

Video: Knowledge Navigator by Apple Computers

11/26/2003

Intelligent Interface Agents

Adaptive Agents

  Web browsing assistant

  Interface agents (MIT Media Lab)

Term Project (pdf)

P. Maes. "Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No.7,pp. 31-40, 146, ACM Press, July 1994.

Letizia: An Agent That Assists Web Browsing by H. Lieberman

Autonomous Interface Agents by H. Lieberman

Exploring the Web with Reconnaissance Agents by H. Lieberman, CACM, Vol. 44 No. 8

12/03/2003

Information Agents

STRIPS Planning

Partial-Order Planning

Planning to Gather Information by C. T. Kwok and D. Weld

UCPOP (University of Washington)

STRIPS (SRI)

AIMA Chapter 11 (references in AI planning)

Information Agents Research Group (USC/ISI)

12/10/2003

Semantic Web

Semantic Web Tutorial

The Semantic Web by T. Berners-Lee et al., Scientific American, May 17, 2001

Business Week Online: The Next Web

12/17/2003

12:30pm

DAML + OIL

Ontology

RDF Examples

KQML

12/17/2003

Agents for e-Commerce

  Comparison Shopping

  Recommender System

  Reinforcement learning

A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web. by Doorenbos et al. in Autonomous Agents, 1997

To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price by O. Etzioni et al. in ACM SIGKDD 2003

Learning User's Scheduling Criteria in A Personal Calendar Agent by Shih-jui Lin and Jane Hsu

12/24/2003

Adaptive Agents

Embodied Agents

  Subsumption architecture

Intelligence without Representation (pdf) by R. A. Brooks

RoboCup

01/07/2004

Term project  Demo

Term Project

Semantic Web Example

01/14/2004

Term project  Demo

Project report due

Report