The main project this week is to get the PLASTIC environment installed and running.
Lewis, M. & Jacobson, J. Game engines in scientific research. Communications of the ACM (CACM). January 2002, Vol. 45, No. 1. Download and print out from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library <www.acm.org/dl> while logged into a campus machine. Note that CACM is a magazine.
Laird, J. Research in human-level AI using computer games. Communications of the ACM. January 2002, Vol. 45, No. 1. Download from the ACM digital library.
Adobbati, R., Marshall, A.N., Scholer, A., Tejada, S., Kaminka, G.A., Schaffer, S., Sollitto, C. GameBots: A 3D virtual world test bed for multiagent research. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS, (Montreal, Canada, 2001). NOTE: This looks like a good paper, but it is not clear where exactly it was published. It says it was published in ACM Agents 2001 on the paper, but according to ACM it does not seem to have been published there. Download from <http://www.cs.uno.edu/~sheila/>.
Kaminka, G. A., Veloso, M. M., Schaffer, S., Sollitto, C., Adobbati, R., Marshall, A. N., Scholer, A., Tejada, S. GameBots: a flexible test bed for multiagent team research. Communications of the ACM. January 2002, Vol. 45, No. 1. Download from the ACM digital library.
These articles explain the motivation and background for the PLASTIC system and the gaming environment we will be using this term, and discuss other similar systems that have been developed. Write a one-page summary of each article to turn in on Thursday. The summary should include a full citation of the article, state the main point of the article in your own words, and one or two details from the paper that were particularly interesting to you, in your own words. Somewhere, discuss why are we using Unreal Tournament.
Douglass, S. A. & Lee, F. L. (2003). PLASTIC: An Architecture for Specifying Agents in Complex and Dynamic Environments. Unpublished technical report.
Go to the course web page for Scott Douglass' class, and do the Agent 1-4 tutorials.
Brooks, R. A., "New Approaches to Robotics" ,Science (253), September 1991, pp. 1227&endash;1232. (Download the article from the web pages of Rodney Brooks. Note that the figures are legible only in the Postscript version and not the PDF.)
Brooks, R. A. "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot," IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1986, pp. 14-23; also MIT AI Memo 864, September 1985. (Download the article from the web pages of Rodney Brooks.)
Write a one-page summary on each of the the Brooks articles, following the Week One format. They are due on April 20.
Homework #2 - created by Scott Douglass and/or Roman Stanchak.
Homework #3 - created by Scott Douglass and/or Roman Stanchak.
To be determined.
Prof. Hornof will attend the CHI conference this week.
To be determined.
Prof. Hornof will attend an ONR workshop this week.
To be determined.
Prof. Hornof will attend the NIME 2004 conference this week.
This reading list is derived from that of Scott Douglass' course "Modeling of Cognitive Agents" taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Spring, 2003. We are grateful to Scott Douglass for his assistance.
A.Hornof 3/30/04