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  • Oscar Lin
    Oscar Lin replied on the discussion topic POST - MAS metamodel July 26, 2023 - 10:36am
    Thanks a lot, Duncan, for contributing this informative and very interesting post!  Your views are excellent and the references are new and thought-provoking !  I post some articles to the Intelligent Systems and Machine Learing research...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Autonomous Surface Vessels. July 24, 2023 - 8:31pm
    In 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...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Metamodels and Norms July 24, 2023 - 8:29pm
    Another 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...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - MAS metamodel July 24, 2023 - 8:28pm
    In 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...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 4, Section 1, Activity 5 July 24, 2023 - 8:26pm
    Discuss 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...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 2, Section 1, Activity 4 July 24, 2023 - 8:25pm
    Discuss 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: -...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 1, Section 6, Activity 4 July 24, 2023 - 8:23pm
    Discuss 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...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 1, Section 5, Activity 4 July 24, 2023 - 8:22pm
    Discuss the following question in the discussion forum: What are the limitations of the normal and extensive forms for modelling large or realistic game-theoretic settings? The normal form representation of a game works in the following...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 1, Section 3, Activity 4 July 24, 2023 - 8:20pm
    Discuss the following question in the discussion forum: What are the differences between the value-iteration algorithm and Q-learning? Differences between the value-iteration algorithm and Q-learning: - The value-iteration algorithm is designed to...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic POST - Unit 1, Section 1, Activity 5 July 24, 2023 - 8:19pm
    Discuss the following scenarios in the discussion forum:    1.  Consider the following game in matrix form with two players. Payoffs for the row player Shelia are indicated first in each cell, and payoffs for the column player Thomas...
  • Duncan Robertson
    Duncan Robertson added a new discussion topic Post: Introduction July 24, 2023 - 6:23pm
    Greetings! My name is Duncan Robertson.  This is my second last course in MSCIS, the last which will be the essay course.  I am an IT contractor working on enterprise software implementation and support, currently with City of...
  • Ankush Bhardwaj
    Ankush Bhardwaj published a blog post Greeting Class October 25, 2021 - 10:00am
    Hi Class and Dr. Lin, it's taken me a little while to start this course but I have finally. I have been at AU for almost 2 years now. I am not quite in the home strech yet but almost. I should be working on my project next year at some point. I...
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COMP667 Multiagent Systems

COMP667 Multiagent Systems

This group is created for complementing COMP667 Course in Moodle, providing additional course material, and facilitating discussions.