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CSCE475H Multiagent Systems Spring 2015

HANDOUTS PAGE

• Presentation 1: Multiagent Systems: Local Decisions vs. Global Coherence (January 13, 2015)

• Handout 1: Resources in Agents and Multiagent Systems (January 13, 2015)

• Handout 2.1: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction (January 15, 2015)

• Handout 2: Backtracking Search for CSPs (January 13, 2015)

• Handout 3: Some Real World Examples (January 13, 2015)

• URL 1: Graph coloring: US Map (January 13, 2015)

• URL 2: Min-conflicts at work (January 13, 2015)

• URL 3: Unbeatable poker agent! (January 13, 2015)

• URL 4: Pepper, Friendly Humanoid Robot (January 15, 2015)

• Reading 1: Jennings, N.R., l. Moreau, D. Nicholson, S. Ramchurn, S. Roberts, T. Rodden, and A. Rogers (2014). Human-Agent Collectives, Communications of the ACM, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 80-88. (January 13, 2015)

• Handout 4: Notes on Distributed Optimization (January 15, 2015)

• Reading 2: Guizzo, E. (2015). A Robot in the Family, IEEE Spectrum, January, pp. 29-31, 56. (January 15, 2015)

• Reading 3: Schneider, D. (2015). Flying Selfie Bots, IEEE Spectrum, January, pp. 49-51. (January 15, 2015)

• Reading 4: Ross, P. E. (2015). Thus Spoke the Autobahn, IEEE Spectrum, January, pp. 52-55. (January 15, 2015)

• Reading 5: Yliniemi, L., A. K. Agogino, and K. Tummer (2015). Multirobot Coordination for Space Exploration, AI Magazine, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 61-74. (January 15, 2015)

• Handout 5: Background on a Game-Theoretic View on MAS (January 27, 2015)
  • Supplement (January 28, 2015)

• Handout 6: Strategies in Normal-Form Games (January 29, 2015)

• Handout 7: From Optimality to Equibrilium (January 29, 2015)

• URL 5: Prisoner's Dilemma (January 27, 2015)

• URL 6: Nash Equilibrium Example 1 (January 29, 2015)

• URL 7: Nash Equilibrium Example 2 (January 29, 2015)

• URL 8: Route Optimization? Powerlines at the Sandhills ... (January 29, 2015)

• More on poker agents using Nash Equilibrium from the poker group at University of Alberta, Canada. In particular:
  • http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/publications/NIPS07-cfr.pdf
  • http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/publications/AAMAS10.pdf

• Handout 8: Learning and Communication (February 03, 2015)

• Handout 9: Learning and Teaching (February 03, 2015)

• Handout 10: Fictitious Play (February 05, 2015)

• Handout 11: Rational Learning (Bayesian Learning) (February 05, 2015)

• Handout 12: Reinforcement Learning and Other Learning (February 05, 2015)

• URL 8: Reinforcement Learning Example 1 (January 29, 2015)

• URL 9: Reinforcement Learning Example 2 Robotic Soccer Goalkeeper (January 29, 2015)

• URL 10: Reinforcement Learning Example 3 A Crawling Robot (January 29, 2015)

• URL 11: Reinforcement Learning Example 4 Self Modeling (January 29, 2015)

• Handout 13: Basics of Aggregating Preferences: Social Choice (February 10, 2015)

• Handout 14: Voting Methods (February 10, 2015)

• Handout 15: Voting Paradoxes (February 10, 2015)

• Handout 16: Game Day 1: Learning Day Analysis (February 16, 2015)

• Handout 17: The Impossibility Theorems (February 17, 2015)

• Handout 18 Application: Ranking Systems (February 17, 2015)

• Handout 19: Why Mechanism Design? (February 17, 2014)

• Handout 20: Implementations in Mechanism Design and the Revelation Principle (February 19, 2015)

• Handout 21: The Impossibility Theorems, Continued! (February 19, 2015)

• Handout 22: Efficient Groves Mechanisms and Clarke Tax (February 19, 2015)

• Handout 23: Single-Good Auctions (February 26, 2015)

• URL 12: English auction example ... (February 26, 2015)

• URL 13: Dutch auction example ... (February 26, 2015)

• URL 13: How not to bid at auction ... (February 26, 2015)

• URL 14: Importance of clearing rules ... (February 26, 2015)

• Handout 24: "You Can't Handle the Truth!" (February 26, 2015)

• Reading 6: Deep learning ... on chronicle.com (February 26, 2015)

• Handout 25: Factors and Variations in Auctions (February 26, 2015)

• Handout 26: Collusion and Winner's Curse (February 26, 2015)

• Handout 27: Other Types of Auctions (February 26, 2015)

• Reading 7: M. W. Macy and R. Willer (2002). From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 28, pp. 143-166 (March 2, 2015)

• Talk 01: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling (March 2, 2015)

• Handout 28: Game Day 2: Voting Day Analyis (March 5, 2015)

• Talk 02: Multirobot Systems, Professor Maria Gini (March 17, 2015) Here are some of the articles Dr. Gini discussed in class today:
  • Roboticnurse [www.slate.com]
  • Autonomouscar [www.wired.com]
  • An article discussing the big general issue of AI and its implications by Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, and two other very prominent scientists [www.independent.co.uk]
  • Reading 8: T. Geller (2015). Car Talk, Communication of the ACM, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 16-18. (March 17, 2015)

• Colloquium: Multirobot exploration, Professor Maria Gini (March 17, 2015)

• Handout 29: Topics Covered (March 19, 2015)

• Handout 30: Game Day 3: Auction Day Analysis (April 3, 2015)

• Handout 31: Game Day 4: Cooperation Day Analysis (April 17, 2015)

• Talk 03: Multiagent Scheduling, Professor Ed Durfee (March 23, 2015)

• Colloquium: Let's Get Organized! Automating the Design of Agent-Aware Organizations, Professor Ed Durfee (March 23, 2015)

• On the new AI vs. human poker:
  • Pittsburgh paper article (with a bit of info on the others):  LINK
  • CMU article (extended version) : LINK
  • Project page with current standings (and live video streaming): LINK

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