Homework 1.

Due: Thursday, March 3, 2005

Submission: By plain text e-mail to lboloni@cpe.ucf.edu.
  In the subject write: EEL 6938, HW 1


Write a summary of 450-500 words on the following papers: 
   
1. Stan Franklin and Art Graesser:
Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
   
2. Matthias Scheutz:
Useful Roles of Emotions in Artificial Agents: A Case Study from Artificial Life.

3. Naftaly H. Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu: 
Law-Governed Interaction: a Coordination and Control Mechanism for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

4. David Kotz and Robert S. Gray: 
Mobile Agents and the Future of the Internet

5. Hyacinth S. Nwana and Divine T. Ndumu: 
A Perspective on Software Agents Research

Observation: While indicating the number of words on the homework
might seem to be restrictive, this is exactly the way in which 
the papers for conferences need to be written. As future researchers
it is important that you can communicate your ideas concisely and
accurately.