COMP4416 Intelligent Agents: Readings

Note: Please do not print out this version of the papers; photocopies of all papers (the original papers, not the rough drafts given in some cases below) will be available in class.

Foundations

Introduction

• Wooldridge, M. & Jennings, N.R. (1995) Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10, 115-152.
• Nwana, H.S. (1996) Software Agents: An Overview. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 11, 205-244.
• Franklin, S. & Graesser, A. (1997) Is It an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents. in Müller, J.P., Wooldridge, M.J. & Jennings, N.R. (Eds) Intelligent Agents III. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Rational Agency and Intention

• Bratman, M.E. (1990) What is Intention? in Cohen, P.R., Morgan, J. & Pollack, M.E. (Eds) Intentions in Communication. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Bratman, M.E. (1984) Two Faces of Intention. The Philosophical Review, 93, 375-405.
• Cohen, P.R. & Levesque, H.J. (1990) Intention is Choice with Commitment. Artificial Intelligence, 42, 213-261.
• Rao, A.S. & Georgeff, M.P. (1991) Modeling Rational Agents within a BDI-Architecture. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'91), 473-484.
• Rao, A.S. & Georgeff, M.P. (1991) Asymmetry Thesis and Side-Effect Problems in Linear-Time and Branching-Time Intention Logics. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 498-504.

Engineering

BDI Architectures

• Bratman, M.E., Israel, D.J. & Pollack, M.E. (1988) Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning. Computational Intelligence, 4, 349-355. (Figure 1 is missing from this draft of the paper.)
• Georgeff, M.P. & Ingrand, F.F. (1989) Decision-Making in an Embedded Reasoning System. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 972-978.
• Pollack, M.E. & Horty, J.F. (1999) There's More to Life than Making Plans: Plan Management in Dynamic, Multiagent Environments. AI Magazine, 20(4), 71-83.
• Rao, A.S. & Georgeff, M.P. (1995) BDI Agents: From Theory to Practice. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95), 312-319.

Agent Oriented Programming Methodology

• Collis, J.C., Ndumu, D.T., Nwana, H.S. & Lee, L.C. (1998) The ZEUS Agent Building Tool-kit. BT Technology Journal, 16(3), 60-68. (Longer version published as: Nwana, H.S., Ndumu, D.T., Lee, L.C. & Collis, J.C. (1999) ZEUS: A Toolkit for Building Distributed Multiagent Systems. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13, 129-185.)
• Wooldridge, M., Jennings, N.R. & Kinny, D. (2000) The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 3, 285-312.
• Brazier, F.M.T., Dunin-Keplicz, B.M., Jennings, N.R. & Treur, J. (1997) DESIRE: Modelling Multi-Agent Systems in a Compositional Formal Framework. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 6, 67-94.
• Martin, D.L., Cheyer, A.J. & Moran, D.B. (1999) The Open Agent Architecture: A Framework for Building Distributed Software Systems. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13, 91-128.

Teamwork

• Cohen, P.R. & Levesque, H.J. (1991) Teamwork. Noûs, 25, 487-512.
• Kinny, D.N., Ljungberg, M., Rao, A.S., Sonenberg, E.A., Tidhar, G. & Werner, E. (1994) Planned Team Activity. in Castelfranchi, C. & Werner, E. (Eds) Artificial Social Systems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Jennings, N.R. (1995) Controlling Cooperative Problem Solving in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems Using Joint Intentions. Artificial Intelligence, 75, 195-240.
• Tambe, M. (1997) Agent Architectures for Flexible, Practical Teamwork. Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), 22-28. (Longer version published as: Tambe, M. (1997) Towards Flexible Teamwork. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 7, 83-124.)

Agent Communication Languages

• Cohen, P.R. & Perrault, C.R. (1979) Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts. Cognitive Science, 3, 177-212.
• Finin, T., Fritzson, R., McKay, D. & McEntire, R. (1994) KQML as an Agent Communication Language. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94), 456-463.
• Cohen, P.R. & Levesque, H.J. (1995) Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95), 65-72.

Negotiation

• Davis, R. & Smith, R.G. (1983) Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20, 63-109.
• Sandholm, T. & Lesser, V. (1995) Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95), 328-335.
• Noriega, P. & Sierra, C. (1999) Auctions and Multi-agent Systems. in Klusch, M. (Ed.) Intelligent Information Agents. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Applications

Applications in Electronic Commerce

• Parunak, H.V.D. (1998) What Can Agents Do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at CEC. in Klusch, M. & Weiß, G. (Eds) Cooperative Information Agents II. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Guttman, R., Moukas, A. & Maes, P. (1999) Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce. in Klusch, M. (Ed.) Intelligent Information Agents. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Papazoglou, M.P. (1999) The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce. in Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M. & Weiß, G. (Eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Benfield, S.S., Hendrickson, J. & Galanti, D. (2006) Making a Strong Business Case for Multiagent Technology. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 10-15.

Interface Agents

• Chin, D.N. (1991) Intelligent Interfaces as Agents. in Sullivan, J.W. & Tyler, S.W. (Eds) Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM Press, New York, NY.
• Maes, P. & Kozierok, R.A.E. (1993) Learning Interface Agents. Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-93), 459-465.
• Sycara, K.P. & Zeng, D. (1996) Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Software Agents. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 5, 181-211.
• Rich, C., Sidner, C.L. & Lesh, N. (2001) Collagen: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer Interaction. AI Magazine, 22(4), 15-25.
• Myers, K., Berry, P., Blythe, J., Conley, K., Gervasio, M., McGuinness, D., Morley, D., Pfeffer, A., Pollack, M. & Tambe, M. (2007) An Intelligent Personal Assistant for Task and Time Management. AI Magazine, 28(2), 47-61.

Personal Assistants

• Maes, P. (1994) Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload. Communications of the ACM, 37(7), 31-40.
• Dent, L., Boticario, J., McDermott, J., Mitchell, T.M. & Zabowski, D.A. (1992) A Personal Learning Apprentice. Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-92), 96-103.
• Liu, J.S. & Sycara, K.P. (1994) Distributed Meeting Scheduling. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 583-588.
• Sen, S. & Durfee, E.H. (1994) On the Design of an Adaptive Meeting Scheduler. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, 40-46.
• Shardanand, U. & Maes, P. (1995) Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth". Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'95), 210-217.
• Pazzani, M., Muramatsu, J. & Billsus, D. (1996) Syskill & Webert: Identifying Interesting Web Sites. Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), 54-61. (Longer version published as: Pazzani, M. & Billsus, D. (1997) Learning and Revising User Profiles: The Identification of Interesting Web Sites. Machine Learning, 27, 313-331.)

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