2009 Summer Program

May 25 - July 31


Pre-program readings: [1][2][3]


Project Description


Schedule (updated regularly)


Wiki


Short Courses

    Orientation Slides by Dr. Zhang   Building A Research Career by Dr. Zhang   An Introduction to AI by Dr. Zhang   Agents and Multi-Agent Systems by Dr. Zhang   Decision Theory and Game Theory by Dr. Zhang   RMI by Dr. Lewis   Spatial Modeling by Dr. Drennon


Journal Club


  Ye and Alejandro: Rule-Based Generation of User interfaces: A Practical Application of HCI Usability Principles Paper Slides.
  Adrian and Joaquin: Integrated Urban Evolutionary Modeling Paper Slides
  Patricia and Laura: Multiagent Traffic Management: An Improved Intersection Control Mechanism Paper Slides
  Philip and Aaron: SCIL-VP: A Multti-Purpose Visual Programming Environment Paper Slides
  Sean and Kenny: Individual Differences in Expertise Development Over Decades in A Complex Intellectual Domain Paper Slides
  Wayne and Robin: Collective Action and Network Change Paper Slides
  Maksim and Georgi: Paper Slides


Findings

    Proposal Reports [Instruction]

        "Modeling Urban Movement in a Multi-Agent System" by Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Laura Matos, Charlie Mitchell, Patricia Perez, and Joaquin Rodriguez. [Report] [Slides]
        "The Super Awesome Paper of Total Awesomeness! (SAPTA)" by Philip Jensen, Ye Liu, Alejandro Lopez-Lago, and Aaron Welch. [Report] [Slides]
        "Load Balancing and Other Improvements for the CASE System" by Philip Jensen, Ye Liu, Alejandro Lopez-Lago, and Aaron Welch. [Report] [Slides]
        "A study of the emergence of social conventions in Highest Rewarding Neighborhood Agents" by Sean Hallinan. [Report] [Slides]
        "Social Conventions & Multi-Agents System in Dynamic Network" by Robin Jha & Wayne Wu. [Report] [Slides]
        "The Emergence of Social Conventions in Complex Networks: the Inquisitive Approach to Multi-agent Systems" by Kenny Wong. [Report] [Slides]
        "Algorithms For Solving History Sensitive Cascade in Diffusion Networks" by Georgi Smilyanov and Maksim Tsikhanovich. [Report] [Slides]

    Midterm Reports [Instruction]

        "Modeling Traffic in a Multi-Agent System with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)" by Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Laura Matos, Charlie Mitchell, Patricia Perez, and Joaquin Rodriguez. [Report] [Slides]
        "Load Balancing and Other Improvements for the CASE System" by Philip Jensen, Ye Liu, Alejandro Lopez-Lago, and Aaron Welch. [Report] [Slides]
        "The Emergence of Social Conventions in Complex Networks: the Inquisitive Approach to Multi-agent Systems" by Kenny Wong, Sean Hallinan, Robin Jha, and Wayne Wu. [Report] [Slides1][Slides2]
        "History Sensitive Cascade Model" by Georgi Smilyanov and Maksim Tsikhanovich. [Report] [Slides]

    Final Reports [Instruction]

        "A Visual Approach for Modeling Agent Intelligence" by Phil Jense, Ye Liu, Alejandro Lopez-Lago & Aaron Welch. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]
        "Modeling Traffic in a Multi-Agent System with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)" by Laura Matos, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Patricia Perez & Joaquin Rodriguez. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]
        "The Emergence of Clustering and Degree Distributions in Multi-Agent Systems Using the Highest Rewarding Neighborhood Rule" by Sean Hallinan. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]
        "The Emergence of Social Conventions in Dynamic Networks: A MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) Approach" by Robin Jha & Kenny Wong. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]
        "Pattern Analysis in Social Networks with Dynamic Connections" by Wayne Wu. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]
        "History Sensitive Cascade Model" by Maksim Tsikhanovich & Georgi Smilyanov. [Abstract] [Report] [Slides] [Poster]


Last updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by Yu Zhang.