CS8011B: Software Agents Seminar
Summer 1997

Mondays (Summer 1997 Quarter): 1:30pm-3pm, GVU Conference Room

Last Quarter's (Spring 1997) Seminar

Participants

• Don Allison
• Hamish Caldwell
• Irfan Essa
• John Humphrey
• Scott McCrickard
• Toby Miller
• Sunil Mishra
• Ashwin Ram
• Joi Roberts
• John Stasko

Mailing list

There is a mailing list for this seminar class maintained at the majordomo@cc.gatec.edu. The list is sw-agents@cc.gatech.edu. (To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@cc.gatech.edu with a message "subscribe sw-agents <your email address>").

Schedule:

6/30/97

Planning

7/7/97

Recommender Agents (Discussion led by John Humphrey).

• Resnick, P. and Varian (Editors), "Recommender Systems", Communications of the ACM, 40(3), pp 56-87, March 1997.

7/14/97

Ontology of Agents (Discussion led by Hamish Caldwell) .

• Mike Wooldridge, Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice.
  (Sections 1 and 2, Agent Theories, and Agent Architectures.)
• Hyacinth S. Nwana, Software Agents: An Overview.

7/21/97

Review of Existing systems.

• Don Allision
• John Humphrey
• Joi Roberts

7/28/97

Anthromorphization of agents (Toby Miller)

• Nass, Moon, Fogg, Reeves, & Dryer "Can Computer Personalities be Human Personalities?" in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (1995) 43, 223-239, 1995. (Toby Miller's Notes)
• S. Lester, "Increasing Believability in Animated Pedagogical Agents", In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 97, 1997. (Toby Miller's Notes)

8/4/97

Planning vs. Decision Making vs. Reaction (Sunil Mishra).

• D. Pierce amd B. Kuipers, "Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors", To appear, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 1997.
• Full Ph. D. Dissertation on this topic also exists.

8/11/97

NO Class.

8/18/97

Brainstorming Session "What do we want in an agent and what will make it useful?"

8/25/97

Options:

Continue Brainstorming

Find what a concept video is telling or hiding

Tools, Tools, Tools!

Other Topics

• Agent to agent information exchange methodologies.
• Toolkit and Languages for developing Agents.
• .....

Last Modified by Irfan Essa at 12n 7/7/97