Schedule

Date	Topic, Discussion Leader, References
9/9/02	Introduction to Resource-Bounded Reasoning (Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: [Doyle, 1999]  [Good, 1971]  [Horvitz, 1988]  [Russell, 1997]  [Simon, 1982]
9/16/02	CANCELLED
9/23/02	Principles of metareasoning (Roger Mailler) Refs: [Russell & Wefald, 1991] Time-dependent utility and action under uncertainty (Brendan Burns) Refs: [Horvitz, 1988]  [Horvitz & Rutledge, 1991]
9/30/02	Iterative state-space reduction for flexible computation (Mohammad Ghavamzadeh) Refs: [Zhang, 2001] Embedded Bayesian networks: Anyspace, anytime probabilistic inference (Charles Sutton) Refs: [Ramos, Cozman, & Ide, 2002]  [Darwiche, 2001]
10/7/02	Searching stochastically generated multi-abstraction-level design spaces (Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: [Steinberg, 2001] Monitoring and control of anytime algorithms (Khashayar Rohanimanesh) Refs: [Hansen, 2001]
10/16/02	Optimal sequencing of contract algorithms (Daniel Bernstein) Refs: [Zilberstein, Charpillet, & Chassaing, 1999]  [Bernstein, Finkelstein, Perkins, & Zilberstein, 2002] Dynamic restart policies (Raphen Becker) Refs: [Kautz, Horvitz, Ruan, Gomes, & Selman, 2002]
10/21/02	Principles and applications of continual computation (Gerhard Schroff) Refs: [Horvitz, 2001] Provably bounded-optimal agents (Zhengzhu Feng) Refs: [Russell, Subramanian, & Parr, 1993]  [Russell & Subramanian, 1995]
10/28/02	Bargaining with limited computation (Roger Mailler) Refs: [Larson & Sandholm, 2001]  Extra reading: [Larson & Sandholm, 2002] Approximate processing (Victor Lesser) Refs: [Nawab et al, 1997]  [Decker et al, 1990]  Extra reading: [Lesser et al, 1988]
11/4/02	Value-driven information gathering (Zhengzhu Feng) Refs: [Grass & Zilberstein, 2000] Information-driven dynamic sensor collaboration (Khashayar Rohanimanesh) Refs: [Zhao et al, 2002]
11/18/02	Algorithm portfolio design (Raphen Becker) Refs: [Gomes & Selman, 2001] Architectural foundations of real-time (Charles Sutton) Refs: [Hayes-Roth, 1990]
11/25/02	Structured control for autonomous robots (Brendan Burns) Refs: [Simmons, 1994]  Extra reading: [Simmons, 1992]  [Simmons, 1998] Decision-making in an embedded reasoning system (Gerhard Schroff) Refs: [Georgeff & Ingrand, 1989]
12/2/02	CIRCA (Claudia Goldman-Shenhar) Refs: [Musliner et al, 1993]  Extra reading: [Goldman et al, 2001]  [Musliner, 2000] Design-to-criteria scheduling (Jiaying Shen) Refs: [Wagner et al, 1998]  [Wagner et al, 2002]
12/9/02	Project summaries (5-10 minutes per student) Cooperative negotiation for distributed resource allocation (Mohammad Ghavamzadeh) Refs: [Mailler & Lesser, 2002]  [Mailler et al, 2002]