ME 538
Fall 2009
4 credits

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

MW 10:00-11:15
ROG 440


Instructor: Kagan Tumer
E-mail: kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Office: Rogers 426
Office hours: MW: 2:00-3:00

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Textbook: An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, by Michael Wooldridge. John Wiley and Sons; (edition 1 or 2)

Grading :

Reading Participation 10%
Homework 20%
Midterm 30%
Research Project 40%

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course students will be able to:


Students with Disabilities: Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). Students with accommodations approved through SSD are responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge of the course prior to or during the first week of the term to discuss accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through SSD should contact SSD immediately at 737-4098.


ME 538 SCHEDULE and LECTURES:

Week Date Lecture Title Homework Reading Project
(Due 2 PM Friday)
1 9/28/09 Introduction      
9/30/09 Autonomous Agents      
2 10/5/09 HW 1    
10/7/09 Multiagent Systems   Reading 1 Paper Topics
3 10/12/09 System Properties and Agent Rewards      
10/14/09   Reading 2 Paper Proposal Due
4 10/19/09 HW 2    
10/21/09 Game Theory   Reading 3  
5 10/26/09 Voting   Reading 4  
10/28/09 Project Research HW 3 (Due 10/30)    
6 11/2/09 Auctions   Reading 5  
11/4/09 Project Research     Intro/Background Due
7 11/9/09 Swarms      
11/11/09 Midterm      
8 11/16/09 Applications: Robot Coordination   Reading 6  
11/18/09 Applications: Traffic HW 4 Reading 7 Preliminary Paper Due
9 11/23/09 Applications: Heterogeneous Robots      
11/25/09      
10 11/30/09 Research Presentations      
12/2/09      
12/4/09       Final Paper Due


Academic Dishonesty: You are permitted, and to a great extent encouraged, to work with others on homework sets. However, there is an obvious difference between constructive discussion of a particular problem and copying. Acts of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated and will be handled according to university policy. (See http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm for details.)