Instructor: | Dr. Lotzi Bölöni |
Office: | ENGR 3 - 319 |
Phone: | 407-823-2320 |
E-mail: | lboloni@eecs.ucf.edu |
Web Site: |
http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~lboloni/Teaching/EEL6938_2007/index.html
The assignments and the other announcements will be posted on the course web site |
Classroom: | Eng I - 388 |
Class Hours: | Tuesday, Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 |
Office Hours: | |
Pre-requisites: | EEL 4781 (Computer Networks) or equivalent, EEL 4872 (Engineering Applications of Intelligent Systems) or equivalent. |
Recommended readings: |
As the course will explore research topics which are usually found in
journal and conference papers, there is no required textbook for this
course, but there is a number of reference books which the students
should consider:
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FEEDS/Tegrity video stream: | TBD |
Projects: |
The class requires the students to prepare a major research project in one
of the topics explored in the class. The project can be: -An implemented software project. -An extensive, critical survey of the literature related to a topic. |
Grading: | Homework: 30% Project: 70 % Standard 90/80/70/60 scale will be used for final grades (curved if necessary) |
Date |
Topic |
Lecture Notes, Readings, Homeworks |
Jan. 9 |
Introduction -what are agents, the topics to be covered |
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Jan. 11 |
-The knowledge level. -The view of classical AI towards agent building |
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Jan. 16 |
Behavioral agent models -Intelligence without representation |
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Jan. 18 |
-Brooks' subsumption architecture |
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Jan. 23 |
-Social potential fields |
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Jan. 25 |
-Controversies around behavioral approaches and situated cognition | |
Jan. 30 | Decision theoretic models -Probabilities -Reasoning with probabilities |
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Feb. 1 |
-Markov decision processes |
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Feb. 6 |
-Partially observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) Lecture by Majid Ali Khan |
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Feb. 8 |
-Reinforcement learning |
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Feb. 13 |
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Feb. 15 |
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Feb. 20 |
Belief, desire, intention (BDI) models -Short introduction to logic. |
Homework 1 - due March 20th |
Feb. 22 |
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Feb. 27 |
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Mar. 1 |
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Mar. 6 |
Presentation: 2APL: A practical agent programming language (Cathy
Yen)
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[ slides ] 2APL |
Mar. 8 |
Presentation: Golog, logic programming language for agents (David Mui) |
[ slides ] Golog |
Mar. 13 |
Spring break |
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Mar. 15 |
Spring break |
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Mar. 20 |
Project preparation discussions | |
Mar. 22 |
Presentation: Karl Sim: Evolving Virtual Creatures (Adelein Rodriguez) |
[ slides ] Evolving virtual creatures |
Mar. 27 |
Presentation: Steering behaviors in Flocking (Kevin Kelly) |
[ slides ] Steering behaviors |
Mar. 29 |
Presentation: Affective computing (Victor Hung) |
[ slides ] Affective computing |
Apr. 3 |
Class cancelled. I recommend you to go to the AI faculty and student meeting with Marvin Minsky in Harris Center 202 (10am-12am). | Homework 2 - due April 29th |
Apr. 5 |
Presentation: Helbing et al - Simulating dynamical features of escape panic (Alex Turek) | [ slides ] Simulating escape panic |
Apr. 10 |
Presentation: Yoav Shoham - Agent Oriented Programming (Lucas Schroeder) |
[ slides ] Agent Oriented Programming |
Apr. 12 |
Presentation: Parsons et al - Agents that Reason and Negotiate by Arguing
(Malachi Lawson) |
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Apr. 17 |
Presentation: Service Oriented Architectures (Benjamin Snively) |
[ slides ] Service oriented programming |
Apr. 19 |
Presentation: Managing Social Influences through Argumentation-Based
Negotiation (Yi Luo) |
[ slides ] Managing social influences |
Apr. 29 |
Projects due |