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MAS in Transit Systems - REM
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 6, 2023 - 1:25am Replies (1) Last reply by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 25, 2023 - 4:42pmOne recent transit development that will significantly improve ridership in Montreal is the Réseau Express métropolitain, or REM for short. The REM enables faster connections from the south shore to the main island with planned future...Google Deepmind AlphaStar
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 25, 2023 - 4:41pmI am sharing this work I learned about a few years ago as it strongly pertains to MAS. The team at Google Deepmind worked on a series of agents to play the game Starcraft 2 and trained them to the point where they could routinely beat the best of...Auction theory - 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 24, 2023 - 5:25pmAfter watching some videos on the Nobel prize given for the Vickrey auction I looked into other prominent advancements in auction theory. I found that the 2020 nobel prize in economics was given for recent work in a format known as simultaneous...Google Deepmind MARL Work - Fruit Market
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 24, 2023 - 5:25pmI came across this work on MARL by Google Deepmind and wanted to share it with the class [1]. They showed how agents in their environment could simulate microeconomic behaviours, namely production, consumption, and trading. This environment, called...Course Unit Discussion Question Post - Programming language
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 23, 2023 - 9:09pmDiscuss the following questions in the discussion forum: What programming language and tool would you use in your proposed course project? Why? In my project, the assignment description says: “The topic of the final project need not...Course Unit Discussion Question Post - MAS vs Distributed Systems
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 23, 2023 - 9:04pmDiscuss the following questions in the discussion forum: Why should we be interested in distributed systems of agents? MAS should be interesting to anyone due to their scalability and the robustness that comes with MAS. When you have a collection...Project Proposal
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 23, 2023 - 9:08pmI wanted to make this post and share a bit of my project proposal with the class for the final project in 667. Maybe it could inspire future students and provide some insight and ideas into scope. For this project, I aim to explore...The Power Grid
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 22, 2023 - 6:03pmOne thing often not talked about in MAS is the power grid. The role that different power generation utilities and users interact on a large scale and the pricing mechanisms that allow users and governments to buy and sell power across large...Open AI Gym
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 14, 2023 - 7:31pm Replies (2) Last reply by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 22, 2023 - 6:02pmI wanted to share a gym environment I have been playing around with for a while when looking at topics on goal-conditioned reinforcement learning [1]. Gymnasium is a maintained fork of OpenAI’s gym, allowing users to look into implementing...AI-powered skin paper
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 21, 2023 - 10:28pmThe other day, I saw this exciting paper in my feed and wanted to share it with the class. This paper discusses how AI can be used to power electronic skin and how different ML models play into various components, such as flexible patches and smart...Real Dutch Auction
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 19, 2023 - 5:13amHi everyone, after learning more about auctions in the course I wanted to share this recent video I watched explaining the 1996 nobel prize in economics which regards the Vickrey auction [1]. It is a great watch and I think it puts more of the class...Swarm Robotics
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 13, 2023 - 8:49pmSwarm Robotics is an exciting area of research in MAS. Finding ways that fleets of robots can work together in specific tandem fashions can enable higher-order operation and task completion. Often mimicking the collective social behaviors displayed...Open AI Hide and Seek
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 7, 2023 - 9:23pm Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar Lin December 10, 2023 - 10:23amI wanted to share a paper published by Open AI a few years ago that is highly relevant to MAS. Researchers at OpenAI developed multiple agents to play the game of hide and seek in a controlled environment [1]. Through both...Introduction
Started by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 6, 2023 - 1:24am Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar Lin December 6, 2023 - 8:50amHello Everyone! My name is Gagan, and I am a student in the MSc program. I am taking this course as part of my focus area in intelligent systems. I am very interested in game theory and game AI. I took many courses focused on this during my...POST - Autonomous Surface Vessels.
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:31pm Replies (1) Last reply by Gaganpreet Jhajj December 6, 2023 - 1:24amIn their paper, Males et al. (2022) survey the use of MAS in surface vessels. This is a goal that has been considered for a rather long time (approximately 130 years with Tesla). The main reasons for automating vessels are to cut costs...POST - MAS metamodel
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:28pm Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar Lin July 26, 2023 - 10:36amIn this post I want to talk about a recent paper about MAS metamodels. A metamodel is an abstraction that describes the information that is required for a model of the entities and relationships in the MAS domain. In their paper, Viana et al...POST - Metamodels and Norms
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:29pmAnother post on MAS metamodels, and the role of norms in a couple of papers, one by Dell’Ann et al. (2021) and the other by Viana et al. (2021). According to Boella and van der Torre as cited by Dell’Anna et al (2021 p1) norms can be...POST - Unit 4, Section 1, Activity 5
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:26pmDiscuss the following question in the discussion forum: Can you construct a real-world example (different from the examples in the textbook) where the individual preference lists for three alternatives are as in the voting paradox of Condorcet? The...POST - Unit 2, Section 1, Activity 4
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:25pmDiscuss the following questions in the discussion forum: What are the similarities and differences between an agent and an object? What are the similarities and differences between an agent and an expert system? Agents and objects Similarities: -...POST - Unit 1, Section 6, Activity 4
Started by Duncan Robertson July 24, 2023 - 8:23pmDiscuss the following questions in the discussion forum: 1. We know that an MDP is simply a stochastic game with only one player, while a repeated game is a stochastic game with one stage game. Can you give an example of a stochastic...
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COMP667 Multiagent Systems
This group is created for complementing COMP667 Course in Moodle, providing additional course material, and facilitating discussions.
