Advanced Artificial Intelligence

	School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Instructor	Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang
TA:	Jong-Woo Lee (Room 301-451, Tel.: 880-7302)
Classroom	301-101
Time	wed pm 6:00 ~ pm 9:00
Objectives	Understand how agents are different from other existing software systems Understand the state of the art in the field of intelligent agents Obtain an overview of a wide range of applications of intelligent agents Identify the potential of machine learning techniques for making agents more intelligent
References	Intelligent Information Agents: Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet , Matthias Kulusch (Ed.), Springer, 1998. Readings in Agents, Michael N. Huhns and Munundar P. Singh (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. Software Agents, Bradshaw, P., MIT Press, 1997. Software Agents and Soft Computing, Hyacinth S. Nwana and Nader Azarmi, 1997 Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw-Hill, 1997. Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future, (in Korean), Byoung-Tak Zhang, In Computers in the 21st Century, Chap. 11, Kyohaksa, pp. 176-200, 1998. Methods for Machine Learning, (in Korean), Byoung-Tak Zhang, In Cognitive Science: An Introduction, 1998. Agent Sourcebook, Alper Caglayan, Colin harrison, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1997.
Requirements	Presentation of papers (30%), term paper (50%), quizzes (10%), active participation in discussion (10%)
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Date	Main Subject (Product / Prototype)	Presenter
Week 1	Course Outline
Week 2	Introduction to Intelligent Agents [pdf file]
Week 3 (3/15)	Learning Methods for Agents [pdt file1] [pdf file2]
Week 4 (3/22)	E-mail Agents (Beyond Mail, Lotus Notes, Maxims) [pdf file] Lashkari, Y., Metral, M. and Maes, P., Collaborative interface agents, In Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), 1994. Krulwich, B., and Burkey, C., The ContactFinder agent: Answering bulletin board questions with referrals,In Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), pp.10-15, 1996.	박원하
		김도형
Week 5 (3/29)	Scheduling Agents (Calendar System) [pdf file1] [pdf file2] Kozierok, R. and Maes, P., A learning interface agent for scheduling meetings. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp.81-88, ACM Press, 1993.	박상준
		오창민
Week 6 (4/12)	Desktop Agents (Office2000 Help, Open Sesame!) [pdf1]	이정진
Week 7 (4/19)	Web Search Agents (Surfboard) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] [pdf4] Liren Chen and Katia Sycara, WebMate: A personal agent for browsing and searching, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA-98), 1998. Filippo Menczer, ARACHNID: Adaptive retrieval agents choosing heuristic neighborhoods for information discovery, In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-97), pp.227-235, 1997. Justin Boyan, Dayne Freitag, and Thorsten Joachims, Machine learning architecture for optimizing web search engines, In AAAI Workshop on Internet-based Information Systems, 1996. Anders Falk and Ing-Marie Jonsson, PAWS: an agent for WWW-retrieval and filtering, In Proceedings of Conference on Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM-96), pp. 169-179, 1996.	김선
		김인영
		최성순
		진은정
Week 8 (4/26)	Webbrowsing Agents (WebWatcher) [pdf1] [pdf2] Henry Lieberman, Letizia: an agent that assists web browsing, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), pp. 475-480, 1995. Thorsten Joachims, Dayne Freitag, and Tom M. Mitchell, WebWatcher: A tour guide for the world wide web, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), pp. 770-775, 1997.	서치영
		오동일
Week 9 (5/3)	Information Filtering Agents (Infofinder) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] [pdf4] Alexandros Moukas, Amalthaea: Information discovery and filtering using a multiagent evolving ecosystem, In Proceedings of Conference on Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM-96), pp. 421-436, 1996. Dhruv Gupta et al., Jester 2.0: A new linear time collaborative filtering algorithm applied to jokes, In SIGIR Workshop on Recommender Systems, 1999. Krulwich, B. and Burkey C., The InfoFinder agent: Learning user interests through heuristic phrase extraction, IEEE Expert, pp. 22-27, Sep.-Oct., 1997. Rhodes, B. J. and Starner, T., Rememberance agent: A continuously running automated information retrieval system, In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents Technology (PAAM-96), pp. 487-495, 1996. Pazzani M. and Billsus D., Learning and revising user profiles: The identification of interesting web sites, Machine Learning, Vol. 27, pp. 313-331, 1997.	정순철
		신형주
		김유환
		서영우
Week 10 (5/10)	News-service Agents (Newshound) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] [pdf4] Resnick, P. et al., GroupLens: An open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews, In Proceedings of Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW-94), pp. 175-186, 1994. Toshiki kindo, et al., Adaptive personal information filtering system that organizes personal profiles automatically, In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), pp.716-721, 1997. Kenrick J. Mock, Hybrid hill-climbing and knowledge-based methods for intelligent news filtering, In Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), pp. 48-53, 1996.	엄재홍
		문현구
		이정우
		김준식
Week 11 (5/17)	Comparison Shopping Agents (Mysimon) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] Doorenbos R.B., O. Etzioni and D. Weld, A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World Wide Web, pp. 39-48, In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA-97), 1997.	박상욱
		전준범
		정기성
Week 12 (5/24)	Brokering Agents (Personalogic ,Barnes) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] [pdf4] Anthony Chavez et al., A real-life experiment in creating an agent marketplace, In Proceedings of Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents Technology (PAAM-97), pp. 159-178, 1997. Chavez A. and Pattie Maes, Kasbah: an agent marketplace for buying and selling goods, In Proceedings of Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents Technology (PAAM-96), pp. 75-90, 1996.	양병선
		이제형
		정재윤
		이영복
Week 13 (5/30)	Auction Agents (AuctionBot ,AuctionWeb) [pdf1] [pdf2] [pdf3] Pablo Noriega and Carles Sierra, Auctions and multi-agent systems, Intelligent Information Agents, pp. 153-173, Springer, 1999. Pere Garcia et al., Bidding strategies for trading agents in auction-based tournaments, In International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (AMET-98), pp. 151-165, 1998.	임태수
		정태진
		유상원
Week 14 (6/14)	Negotiation Agents (DataDetectors) [pdf1] [pdf2] Robert Guttman and Pattie Maes, Agent-mediated integrative negotiation for retail electronic commerce, In International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (AMET-98), pp. 71-90, 1998. B.C.M. Wondergem, P. van Bommel, T.W.C. Huibers, and Th.P. van der Weide, An Electronic Commerce Paradigm for Agent-Based Information Discovery, Information, Interdisciplinaire Conferentie Informatiewetenschap 1997.	이승준
		김서진
Week 15	Wrap Up
Week 16