Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Automação Industrial - DCA

Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação - FEEC

Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

IA 860 Distributed Artificial Intelligence

References

Suggested Papers:

B. Chandrasekaran: Natural and Social System Metaphors for Distributed Problem Solving: Introduction to the Issue, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 11 (1): 1-5, January 1981.
K. Decker: Distributed Problem-Solving Techniques: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 17 (5): 729-740, September/October, 1987.
E. Durfee, V. Lesser, and D. Corkill: Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1 (1): 63-83, March 1989.
E. Durfee: The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Melting Pot, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21 (6): 1301-1306, November/December 1991.
Sycara, K. et. al. Distributed Intelligent Agents, IEEE Expert, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 36-46, December 1996.
Letjer, M., Dean, T. A Framework for the Development of Multiagent Systems, IEEE Expert, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 47-59, December 1996.
V. A. Pham and A. Karmouch: Mobile Software Agents: An Overview, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1998, pp. 26-37.
V. Maniezzo and A. Colorni: The Ant System Applied to the Quadratic Assignment Problem, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 11 (5): 769-778, September/October, 1999.

Books:

Weiss, G. (Ed.) Multiagent Systems -A Modern Approach to Distribute Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 1999.
Bradshaw, J. (Ed.) Software Agents, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 1997.
Russel, S., Norvig, P. Artificial Intelligence-A Modern Approach, 2^nd Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA, 2003.

Course Notes and Slides

Course notes

Course Plan

· March 30 Project Proposal (title, motivation, objective, literature overview, expected results, references); 10 pagesA4 Paper at most.

· April 27 Discussion of key papers starts.

· May 09 Hands on (project work).

· May 12 Hands on (project work).

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