Graduate Course: Distributed Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

STUDY GUIDE

Week 1 (beginning January 10, 2000)

Overview of the course, overview of intelligent agents, multi-agent systems.

Readings

• Chapters 1 and 2 from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , Russell and Norvig.
• History and Promise of AI (by D. Waltz)
• Report on 21st Century Intelligent Systems (by B. Grosz and R. Davis)
• The Role of Intelligent Systems in the National Information Infrastructure (by D. Weld)
• Honavar, V.A Tutorial on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
• Honavar, V. Distributed Knowledge Networks Invited Talk. AiDIN 99
• Maes, P. Agent Tutorial.
• Nwana, H. Software Agents: An Overview., Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 11., no. 3., pp. 1-40. 1996.
• Wooldridge, M. and Jennings, N. Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 10., no. 2., pp. 115-152. 1995.
• Franklin and Graesser. Is it an agent or just a program, In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1996.
• Pettrie, C. Agent-based engineering, the web, and intelligence IEEE Expert, 1996.
• Harrison, C.G., Chess, D.M., and Kershenbaum, A. Mobile agents: are they a good idea? Research Report, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
• Huhns, M. and Singh, M. Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges. In: Readings in Intelligent Agents. Huhns, M. and Singh, M. (Ed.), Palo Alto: Morgan Kaufmann. 1998.

Overview of Intelligent Agents, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and their Applications

Readings

• Chapters 1 and 2 from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , Russell and Norvig.
• History and Promise of AI (by D. Waltz)
• Report on 21st Century Intelligent Systems (by B. Grosz and R. Davis)
• The Role of Intelligent Systems in the National Information Infrastructure (by D. Weld)
• Honavar, V.A Tutorial on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
• Honavar, V. Distributed Knowledge Networks Invited Talk. AiDIN 99
• Maes, P. Agent Tutorial.
• Nwana, H. Software Agents: An Overview., Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 11., no. 3., pp. 1-40. 1996.
• Wooldridge, M. and Jennings, N. Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 10., no. 2., pp. 115-152. 1995.
• Franklin and Graesser. Is it an agent or just a program, In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1996.
• Pettrie, C. Agent-based engineering, the web, and intelligence IEEE Expert, 1996.
• Harrison, C.G., Chess, D.M., and Kershenbaum, A. Mobile agents: are they a good idea? Research Report, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
• Huhns, M. and Singh, M. Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Themes, Approaches, and Challenges. In: Readings in Intelligent Agents. Huhns, M. and Singh, M. (Ed.), Palo Alto: Morgan Kaufmann. 1998.
• Negroponte, N. Agents: From Direct Manipulation to Delegation. In: Software Agents. Bradshaw (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
• Shneiderman, B. Direct Manipulation versus Agents: Paths to Predictable, Controllable, and Comprehensible Interfaces. In:Software Agents. Bradshaw (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
• Maes, P. Agents that reduce work and information overload. In: Software Agents. Bradshaw (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

Week 3 (beginning January 24, 2000)

Agent Specification, Agent Architecture, and Agent Implementation.

Readings

• M. Wooldridge, N. R. Jennings, and D. Kinny. A Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design. In O. Etzioni, J. P. Muller, and J. Bradshaw, editors: Agents '99: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents Seattle, WA, May 1999.
• N. R. Jennings, K. P. Sycara, and M. Wooldridge A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development In Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 1(1), pages 7-36. July 1998.
• M. Wooldridge. Intelligent Agents In G. Weiss, editor: Multiagent Systems, The MIT Press, April 1999.
• M. Fisher and M. Wooldridge. On the Formal Specification and Verification of Multi-Agent Systems. In International Journal of Cooperative Information systems, 6(1), pages 37-65, 1997.
• Brazier, F.M.T., Cornelissen, F., Jonker, C.M., and Treur, J., Compositional Specification of a Reusable Co-operative Agent Model International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. In press, 1999.
• Stanley J. Rosenschein and Leslie Pack Kaelbling, A Situated View of Representation and Control Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 73, 1995.
• Brooks, Rodney A. Intelligence Without Reason MIT AI Lab Memo 1293, April 1991.
• Brooks, R. A., Intelligence Without Representation, Artificial Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, pp. 139--159.
• Jennings, N.R. Specification and Implementation of a Joint Belief-Desire-Intention Architecture for Collaborative Problemsolving. Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. Vol. 2. No. 3. pp. 289-318. 1993.
• Bratman, M.E., Israel, D.J., Pollack, M.E. Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning Computational Intelligence: 4(4) pp. 349-355. 1988.
• P. Busetta and R. Kotagiri. An Architecture for Mobile BDI Agents, Technical Report 97/16, The University of Melbourne, Department of Computer Science, Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

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Dr. Vasant Honavar
Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Atanasoff Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1040 USA
phone: +1-515-294-4377, fax: +1-515-294-0258