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H. Van Dyke Parunak
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Mark your calendar: October 03-07, 2011
Fifth IEEE
International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO'11) in
Ann
Arbor, MI, USA
Technical Interests
Seatlh's Law: "All Things Are Connected."
Click here for abstracts of available papers and links to PDF or Postscript versions, here for a collection of articles describing systems we have built and how we have built them, and here for slides from selected presentations.
- Software Engineering for Agents
- Agent-Based Software Architectures for Real World Applications
- Agent-Based Design and Distributed Constraint Optimization
- Agent-Based Modeling
- Digital Pheromones
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
- Applications of Linguistics to Manufacturing Control
- Hypertext
- Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Commerce
Notable Projects:
- CASE MASTER (Model Adaptation and Swarming for Topological Environmental Reasoning), under the DTO CASE program, using stigmergic and machine learning methods to model and reason over human activities
- STRONG ARM (Synergetic Tactical Reasoners Offering Near-term Guidance: Adversarial Reasoning Module) under the DARPA RAID program, using multiple reasoning methods (statistical, symbolic, swarming) to predict the course of an urban battle
- DARPA ACIP (Architectures for Cognitive Information Processing), exploring how different cognitive models can be hybridized in a single architecture
- STIFLE (Stigmergic Tracking of IED Factories, Locations, and Events), under the ONR CIED program, expanding the polyagent technology with concepts from quantum mechanics in the context of IED prediction
- Ant CAFE (Composite Adaptive Fitness Evaluation), under the ARDA NIMD program, using multiple stigmergic methods to manage very large corpora of documents
- LEN, under the DARPA WASP seedling, using swarming mechanisms to coordinate multiple UAV's in a multi-role cooperative sensing application.
- CASANDRA, under the DARPA KP seedling, applying complex adaptive systems to problems of computer networking.
- ReAgent, under the DARPA NA3TIVE seedling, demonstrating the ability to hybridize swarming agents with conventional cognitive agents in the same system.
- Agents Overcoming Resource-Independent Scaling Threats, under the DARPA ANT program, using chaos theory to detect and manage anomalous behavior in agent-based systems.
- Adaptive control of Distributed Agents through Pheromone Techniques and Interactive Visualization (ADAPTIV), under the DARPA JFACC program, exploring the use of pheromone methods to control military air operations.
- Autonomous Agents for Rock Island Arsenal (AARIA): An industrial-strength agent-based shop-floor scheduling and control system, sponsored by the ARPA Agile program.
- Information and Control Integration for projects under NIST's Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Technology (MVMT) ATP
- Shop-Floor Agents (SFA): A broad study of potential applications, sponsored by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.
- Responsible Agents for Product-Process Integrated Development (RAPPID), sponsored by the ARPA MADE program.
- Dynamic Analysis of Supply Chains (DASCh), sponsored by ARPA.
Many of these activities contribute in one way or another to the broader business problem of Supply Chain Engineering.