Must choose routes for various origin destination pairs(O/D pairs) or for various sessions - Datagram routing: route chosen on packet by packet basis Using datagram routing is an easy way to split paths Virtual circuit routing: route chosen a session by session basis Static routing: route chosen in a prearranged way based on O/D pairs Eytan Modiano

Outline Objectives Agents and Their building Blocks Principles for building agents Modeling formalisms Algorithmic Principles Building an agent: The Mars Exploration rover

How do we maneuver ImagestakenfromNasa'Swebsitehttp://www.nasa.gov/ Roadmaps are an effective state space abstraction Brian Williams, Spring 0 Courtesy of U.S. Geological survey

Sum list, iterative version 入 Now construct an iterative version (define(sum D) (let loop(( D)(answer o) (if (null? D) answer (loop (cdr D)(+ answer(car sept.17,2003

Individuals are the objects described by a set of data. Individuals may be people, but they may also be animals Relationship or things Between Variables A variable is any characteristic of an individual. a variable can take different values for different ndividuals The 1997 survey data set, for example, includes data about a sample of women The individuals described are the women

December 10. 2001 (Meta-Ethical Subjectivism(or Non-cognitivism) For the past couple of weeks we have been focusing on the following questions i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform? ii)What makes an action right or wrong? What about the action determines its moral status? Our third question has received less attention

Utilitarianism Last time we considered three questions one might ask an ethical theory to answer i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform(understanding the\ought as a moral ii)What makes a particular action right or wrong? What is it about the action that determines its moral status? 111) How do we know what is right and wrong? There are a variety of strategies for answering(iii). One might hold e. g. that moral truths are revealed by god and

Different Sort of Personal Identity:\Ethical\ Identity . Personal Identity: \Ethical\v. \Metaphysical\questions The previous lectures and readings on personal identity were primarily concerned with the metaphysics of personal identity. Question of diachronic identity/unity: Confronted with an individual X at one time and Y at another, what would make it the case that X and Y are (or are parts of) the same person? We've seen that the answer to this question may well depend on what sort of thing you think persons are: are persons bodies? Streams of consciousness?

al Identity ll Problem of synchronic identity for persons: under what conditions are two simultaneous person-events events in the life of the same person? Problem of diachronic identity for persons under what conditions are two person-stages stages in the life of a single person. In particular, what makes a particular person-stage a continuation of me as I am right now? Background desiderata: an account of personal identity should allow for the possibility of anticipation and memory, i.e., of individual psychological connections between different person stages. It should also allow us to justify our practices of

24.00: Problems of Philosophy Prof. Sally Haslanger September 19, 2001 Evil and the Free Will Defense Review of the Problem 1)If God exists, she'd be OOG. [By hypothesis] )If an OOG being exists, there would be no evil. [from 1] 3)God exists. [Suppose]