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Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 2 (Spring 2007)
Announcements
Examples questions are here
Classes scheduled for June:
June 7, June 21, each class meeting is 120 minutes.
I believe we will finish
all or at least most of the course materials in these two meetings.
As a result of the students'
strike and my absence for attending international conferences, we are way
behind with respect to materials we need to study in this course. I have
therefore selected readings from the book "Multiagent Systems", Gerhard
Weiss (Editor), as appears in the table below. A copy of the book can be found
at a course-shared email account:
username: 89951.biu@gmail.com
password: Aa123456
Details of the course project are provided in the following
link.
We plan to hold a day of classes on Thursday, May 24,
just after Shavuot. There will be at least 6 hours of classes. Please keep
tuned for updates.
JADE task:
·
Download
JADE 3.4.1 from this link.
If this link does not work, JADE 3.3 is
locally here.
·
Read
materials/tutorial and start working with JADE to get a feeling of how it is to
be used.
Class schedule: we will meet for 120 minutes every
time a class is held (see dates below). Please monitor for changes.
March 15 - done
April 12
Course Information
Class hours: Thu. 18:00-20:00
1. Class
presentations will be posted on the web in PDF format.
2. Monitor the site
for changes. New links for course references will be added frequently.
3. Assignments must
be submitted on time. Late submissions will be penalized.
Grade calculation:
50% exam, 50% homework
The assignments may be of the following types:
1. Algorithmic
design and analysis.
2. System design and
implementation.
Staff
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Teaching staff
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Office
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Office Hours
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E-mail
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Lecturer:
Dr. Onn Shehory
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Set appointment by email
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onn at il.ibm.com
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Lectures' Materials (the schedule is tentative
and might change)
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Subject
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Week
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Slides
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Book Chapter
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Pages
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Remarks
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Introduction
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1
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Lecture 1
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1.1,
1.2
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27-36
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Available
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Concepts
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2
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Lecture 2
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1.1,
1.2
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27-36
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Available
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Design
and architectures
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3
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Lecture 3
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1.3,
1.4.2-1.4.4
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36-41,
48-66
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Same as Lecture 2
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Concurrent
architectures and applications
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4-5
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Lectures 4-5
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2
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79-114
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Available
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Protocols
and strategies
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6
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Lecture 6
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Available
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JADE
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7
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Lectures 7
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Available
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Auctions
and negotiation
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8-9
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Lecture 8-9
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5.1-5.4
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201-219
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Available
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Communication
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10
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Lecture 10
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2
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79-114
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Available
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Information-gathering
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11
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Lecture 11
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Available
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Assignments
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Number
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Submission by
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A
project is here
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August 15 2007
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Reference books on agents
1. Agent Technology,
edited by N. R. Jennings and M. J. Wooldridge, Springer 1998
2. Readings in
Agents, edited by M. N. Huhns and M. P. Singh, Morgan Kaufmann 1998.
3. Software Agents, edited
by J. M. Bradshaw, MIT Press 1997.