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