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| Date | Topic, References, Discussion Leader |
| January 27 | Introduction
(Victor Lesser & Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: [] |
| February 1 | Agent-Based
Digital Libraries: UMDL (Victor Lesser
& Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: (1) [Durfee et al., 1997][Durfee et al., 1998][Weinstein et al., 1999] |
| February 3 | Agent
Architectures: RETSINA (Victor Lesser
& Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: (1) [Sycara et al., 1996][Sycara et al., 1997][Sycara et al., 1998] |
| February 8 | Cooperative
Information Systems (Victor Lesser
& Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: (1) [Huhns, 1998][Huhns & Singh, 1998][Oates et al., 1994] (2) [Huhns & Singh, 1999] |
| February 10 | Civil
Agent Societies (Ping Xuan) Refs: (1) [Dellarocas et al., 1999][Dellarocas et al., 2000] |
| February 15 | Motivation
Quantities for Organizationally Situated Agents (Anita
Raja) Refs: (1) [Wagner & Lesser, 1999][Wagner, 2000] |
| February 17 | Autonomous
Agents for Business Process Management (Jon
Aseltine) Refs: (6) [Jennings et al., 2000][Jennings et al., 2000] |
| February 22 | Supply
Chain Planning (Jiachuan Wang) Refs: (1) [Sadeh-Koniecpol et. al, 1999][Zeng & Sycara, 1999][Sikora & Shaw, 1998] |
| February 24 | No Class. |
| February 29 | Using
Social Information in Recommendation (Dietrich
Eisenhardt) Refs: (2) [Basu et al., 1998][Shardanand & Maes, 1995] |
| March 2 | Matchmaking
Among Agents in Open Information Environments (Victor
Lesser) Refs: (2) [Decker & Sycara, 1997][Kuokka & Harada, 1995][Sycara et al., 1997][Sycara et al., 1999][Sycara et al., 1999] |
| March 7 | No Class. |
| March 9 | Extracting
Symbolic Knowledge from the WWW (Zoe
Zhu) Refs: (3) [Bosak, 1997][Craven et al., 1998] |
| March 21 | Wrapper
Induction (Brent Heeringa) Refs: (3) [Muslea et al., 1998][Muslea et al., 1999][Soderland, 1999] |
| March 23 | No Class. Instead, please attend Tuomas Sandholm's Departmental Colloquium on March 22, at 11:15 in Room 150/151, Computer Science Building. |
| March 28 | Information
Extraction Systems (Zachary Eyler-Walker) Refs: (3) [Aone et al., or newer][Miller et al., or newer] |
| March 30 | Query
Planning for Information Gathering (
Victor Lesser & Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: (4) [Ambite & Knoblock, 1998][Knoblock, 1996] |
| April 4 | Planning
to Gather Information (Dietrich
Eisenhardt) Refs: (4) [Duschka & Levy, 1997][Kwok & Weld, 1997] |
| April 6 | Modeling World-Wide-Web
Information Sources (Ping Xuan) Refs: (4) [Fernandez et al., 1998][Knoblock et al., 1998] |
| April 11 | Autonomous
Information Gathering
(Young-Im Cho) Refs: (4) [Lesser et al., 1998] |
| April 13 | Information
Integration (Jiachuan Wang) Refs: (4) [Cohen, 1998][Genesereth et al., 1997][Vassalos & Papakonstantinou, 1998] |
| April 18 | Value-Driven
Information Gathering
(Shlomo Zilberstein) Refs: (4) [Grass & Zilberstein, 2000] |
| April 25 | Distributed
AI and Open Systems Semantics (Zachary
Eyler-Walker) Refs: (5) [Gasser, 1991][Cohen & Levesque, 1990s] |
| April 27 | Design of
Ontologies for Knowledge Sharing (Anita
Raja) Refs: (5) [Gruber, 1993][Kuhanandha, 1998] |
| May 2 | Knowledge
Representation Infrastructure (Jon
Aseltine) Refs: (5) [Carlson & Nirenburg, 1990][Lenat, 1995] |
| May 4 | Cancelled |
| May 9 | Cancelled |
| May 11 | Cancelled |
| May 12 |
Special Seminar Meeting between 11:00-12:30. Agents in Electronic Commerce (Brent Heeringa) Refs: (6) [Sandholm, 2000][Sandholm, 2000] |