CSCI 370/941: Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Online readings:

• Week 1: Introductory lecture: no readings.
• Week 4: Paper 1: Nwana, H.S. (1996) Software Agents: An Overview. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 11, 205-244.
  Additional reading (Paper 2) (we may not discuss this in class): Franklin, S. & Graesser, A. (1997) Is It an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents. in Müller, J.P., Wooldridge, M.J. & Jennings, N.R. (Eds) Intelligent Agents III. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Week 5: Paper 3: Wooldridge, M. & Jennings, N.R. (1995) Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10, 115-152.
  Paper 4: H. van Dyke Parunak (1998). Practical and Industrial Applications of Agent-Based Systems.
  Additional reading (Paper 5) (we may not discuss this in class): N. R. Jennings and M. J. Wooldridge (1998) "Applications of Intelligent Agents" in Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets (eds. N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge) 3-28.
• Week 6:Paper 6: Georgeff, M.P. & Ingrand, F.F. (1989) Decision-Making in an Embedded Reasoning System. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 972-978.
  Paper 7: Rao, A.S. & Georgeff, M.P. (1995) BDI Agents: From Theory to Practice. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95), 312-319.
  Paper 8: A. S. Rao, `AgentSpeak(L): BDI agents speak out in a logical computable language', in Agents Breaking Away: Proceedings of the Seventh European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, LNAI 1038, eds., W. Van de Velde and J. W. Perram, pp. 42--55. Springer, (1996).
• Week 8: Paper 9: Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. De Boer, Wiebe Van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer `Agent Programming in 3APL', Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2)4 (1999), pp. 357--401. (To be presented by Ming Zhou).
  Paper 10: H. Levesque, R. Reiter, Y. Lesperance, F. Lin, and R. Scherl. GOLOG: A logic programming language for dynamic domains. Journal of Logic Programming, 31:59-84, 1997. (To be presented by Ying Guan).
  Paper 11: J. Hendler, "Agents and the Semantic Web," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2001, pp. 30--37. (To be presented by Chaofan Jiang).
• Week 9: Paper 12: Cohen, P.R. & Levesque, H.J. (1991) Teamwork. Nous, 25, 487-512. (To be presented by Peter Way).
  Paper 13: Sonenberg, E., Tidhar, G., Werner, E., Kinny, D., Ljungberg, M., and Rao, A.S. 1994. Planned team activity. Castelfranchi, C. and Werner, E., editors, Articial Social Systems, Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (LNAI-830). Springer Verlag, 227-256. (To be presented by Scott Pollock)
  Paper 14: Jennings, N.R. (1995) Controlling Cooperative Problem Solving in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems Using Joint Intentions. Artificial Intelligence, 75, 195-240. (To be presented by Anthony Douglas)
• Week 10 (Session 1): Paper 15: Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1995. Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-95), San Fransisco, pp. 328-335. (To be presented by Sertan Danis)
  Paper 16: Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh (2002). Specifying Rules for Electronic Auctions. AI Magazine 23(3), pages 15-23. (To be presented by Jahmai Lay)
  Paper 17: Michael P. Wellman, Peter R. Wurman, K O'Malley, R Bangera, S Lin, D Reeves, and William E. Walsh. Designing the Market Game for a Trading Agent Competition. IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2001. (Access through IEEE Explore - go to the university library webpage, follow the journal search link to IEEE Explore, use your uni email ID and password to enter IEEE Explore, search for IEEE Internet Computing, go to the correct issue and you will have access to the full text of the paper online). (To be presented by Tristan Lopes)
• Week 10 (Session 2): Paper 18: A. Greenwald and P. Stone. Autonomous bidding agents in the trading agent competition. IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2001. (To be presented by Zhang Jian)
  Paper 19: J Collins and M. Gini, "Exploring decision processes in multi-agent automated contracting", Technical Report, TR 00-53, University of Minnesota, 2000. An edited version appeared in IEEE Internet Computing, pp 61-72, March/April 2001. (To be presented by Corey McDermott)
  Paper 20: The Role of Middle-Agents in Electronic Commerce, Itai Yarom, Claudia V. Goldman and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 18, Number 6, pages 15-21, November/December 2003. (To be presented by Yan Shi)
• Week 11: Paper 21: M. Wooldridge, N. R. Jennings, and D. Kinny. The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design. In Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 3(3):285-312. 2000. (Presented by Hong Koh Khai)
  Paper 22: F. M. T. Brazier, B. M. Dunin-Keplicz, N. R. Jennings, and J. Treur: "DESIRE: Modelling Multi-Agent Systems in a Compositional Formal Framework", Int Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 6 (1), 1997, 67-94. (Presented by Ren Fenghui)
  Paper 23: E. Yu `Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering' Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Int. Symp. on Requirements Engineering (RE'97) Jan. 6-8, 1997, Washington D.C., USA. pp. 226-235. (Presented by Zheng Bo)
• Week 12: Paper 24: Finin, T., Fritzson, R., McKay, D. & McEntire, R. (1994) KQML as an Agent Communication Language. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94), 456-463. (Presented by Robert Fu)
  Paper 25: Cohen, P.R. & Levesque, H.J. (1995) Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95), 65-72. (Presented by Jinan Assoum)
  Paper 26: Bordini, R.H.; Bazzan, A.L.C.; Jannone, R. de O.; Basso, D.M.; Vicari, R.M.; Lesser, V.R. AgentSpeak(XL): Efficient Intention Selection in BDI Agents via Decision-Theoretic Task Scheduling. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. July, 2002. (Presented by Daniel Pavatich)
• Week 13: Paper 27L. Moreau et al. On the use of agents in a bioinformatics grid. In Proceedings of NETTAB 2002. (presented by Ibrahim Kassem)
  Some other papers of relevance to this topic can be found at this link.