Parallel / Distributed Artificial Intelligence Course Materials

Handouts

• Course Syllabus
• Class Papers

Homeworks

• Homework Assignment 1: Assigned January 23, Due February 6 at 5:30
  
• Program 1: Assigned February 11, Due March 4 at 5:30
  Eureka System
  
• Homework Assignment 2: Assigned March 4, Due March 13 at 5:30
  Monkey and Bananas Rule Base
• Program 2: Assigned March 13, Due April 3 at 5:30
  Parallel Expert System
  
• Homework Assignment 3: Assigned April 3, Due April 10 at 5:30
  
• Program 3: Assigned April 10, Due April 29 at 5:30
  Perceptron1
  Perceptron2
  

Online Papers

• [2-6*] S. Dutt and N. R. Mahapatra, ``Parallel A* Algorithms and their Performance on Hypercube Multiprocessors'', Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Parallel Processing Symposium, pages 797--803, 1993.
• [Optional] N. Mahapatra and S. Dutt, ``New Anticipatory Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel A* Algorithms'', Proceedings of the DIMACS Series on Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 1995.
• [2-13*] D. J. Cook and R. C. Varnell, ``Maximizing the Benefits of Parallel Search Using Machine Learning'', to appear in AAAI, 1997.
• [2-25*] M. Evett, J. Hendler, A. Mahanti, and D. Nau, ``PRA*: Massively Parallel Heuristic Search'', Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 25, pages 133--143, 1995.
• [3-27*] R. Feldmann, B. Monien, and P. Mysliwietz, ``Distributed Game Tree Search'', in Parallel Algorithms for Machine Intelligence and Vision, Kumar, Kanal, and Gopalakrishan (eds.), Spring-Verlag, 1990.
• [5-6*] B. Baumgartner, D. J. Cook, and B. Shirazi, ``Genetic Solutions to the Load Balancing Problem'', Proceedings of the 1995 ICPP Workshop on Challenges for Parallel Processing, pages 72--78, 1995.