Proper Treatment 正當作法/ cs504/ 2009/ Project 1: discrete event simulation
2009-02-05 00:10

(Please do this project in groups of 2 to 5.)

As Newell puts it in “The knowledge level”, we can think of an agent’s conduct in the world as a decision problem in which the agent recognizes its input by perception and affects the world by action. In this sense, the agent debugs the world. Pick a domain where the relevant aspects of the agent’s environment can be modeled, if only crudely, by a discrete event simulation—ideally one of multiple processes that interact with the agent and each other. Implement the simulation so that you can play the role of the agent and interact with the environment hypothetically, for instance by trying different actions at the same juncture, as if you were saving and restoring a game. Start simple!

Your presentation should take about 30 minutes. In your presentation, introduce the domain you picked and demonstrate your model. Address the following questions, to the extent that they are interesting and you have time given your audience’s ignorance:

This project description is surely incomplete. Please ask questions and express concerns about it.