CSCE 990
Final
Project Assignment
Assigned: January 25, 2011
Due: May 3, 2011
(Project 5
minutes late will not be accepted)
Introduction
The goal of this final
project is learn about intelligent agents or multiagent systems more
comprehensively or in depth through a project-based study. The study can be empirical or theoretical
studies or both, using a simulation or participating in a contest.
In this final project
assignment, you will submit a proposal for your final project, run experiments,
and submit a final project report on your design and results.
Three project ideas have been distributed to you in the beginning of the
semester.
Experiments and Report
You are required to run an experiment with your agent design. You must propose a set of hypotheses that you want to validate. And then you must design a study that will allow you to collect the data that you need to validate or invalidate the hypotheses. It is likely that you will have many different environmental settings and different agent designs. Systematically evaluate them and report on the results. For your report, you must provide POJI of the results: Presentations, Observations, Justifications, and Implications. We will discuss this further in class.
Final Project Demo Day
On the Final Project Demo day, each team will present their agent and work. Each team is also required to introduce (~5 minutes) its team before the demo, including the overall strategies. This is to let all students know about the different approaches chosen.
Team
You are required to form a team of two or three students and give a name
for your team. All members of the team
get the same score.
Important Dates
February 1: Tell me your team members and team name.
February 15: A sufficiently detailed proposal that describes (1) the problem statement, (2) the solution design strategy, (3) the hypotheses, and (4) the experiments that you will likely conduct.
April
5: Final Project
Status Update Presentation (PPT)
May 3: Final Project Report is due and Demo Day!
Grading
The final project will be graded in 2 parts: programming (50%) and report (50%). The programming part will be graded based on: (a) 45% Program Correctness, (b) 15% Software Design, (c) 10% Programming Style, (d) 15% Testing, and (e) 15% Documentation.
The report will be graded based on: (a) 50% Design Description and Discussion, (b) 20% Organization, (c) 10% Requirements, (d) 10% Description of Simulation Experiments, and (d) 10% Grammar and Errors. The report must be written in a “manuscript format” compliant to AAAI, ACM, or IEEE. These manuscript formats can be found online at:
· AAAI: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php
· ACM: http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm
· IEEE: http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm