I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. —
Confucius - teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC
Multi-Agent Systems Research PhD Workshop 2008 -- Syllabus
Announcements
| Schedule | Syllabus | Proposal | Resources | LARGE
Lectures
Reading List
There is no textbook, we will read papers from a reading list that will
be posted, together with other class material on the Web page at
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ketter/teaching/MASRW/2008/annoucements.html.
Look at the reading list for details on the papers we will read.
Recommended reading:
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"Multiagent systems. A modern approach to Distributed Artificial
Intelligence."
edited by Gerhard Weiss. The MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262731312
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An Introduction to Multiagent Systems by Michael Wooldridge. Published in February 2002 by John Wiley & Sons (Chichester, England). ISBN 0 47149691X.
Course Objectives
We will examine theoretical foundations and current developments
in intelligent agents.
The collections of papers we will read will provide a broad perspective
of the field.
The study of agents presents a unique opportunity to integrate results
from many diverse areas of research, such as artificial intelligence, behavioral science, computer science, economics, information systems, operations research, and software engineering.
Course Requirements
- attend class and participate to class discussion and in class assignments (20%),
- present two of the papers from the reading list to the class
and provide presentation notes (30%),
- improve your PhD research proposal which uses intelligent agents and present briefly your results to the class (50%). More details on what to submit are listed on proposal page. You should plan on spending approximatively 50 hours on your proposal.
