Intelligent Agents Group

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Intelligent Agents Group

• (part of the Intelligent Systems group, or AI
  group)

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Staff and Project Supervisors

• Lin Padgham
• Michael Winikoff
• Kenichi Yoshimura
• James Harland
• Wei Liu
• David Poutakidis
• Antony Iorio

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Summer Students

• Yenty Yenty
• Sheilina Geerdharry
• Robert Tanaman
• Hiten Ravini
• Sindewati Hoetomo
• Kenny Chen
• Yogesh Jain

• D. Kumaresh
• Jason Khallouf
• Sylvia Cendrawan
• Li Sun
• Norm Boessler
• Soedarto Ng

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General Information

• 8 weeks full time work. Hours roughly 9-6 (or
  11-8) M-F. You should be at work not working
  from home.
• 2 labs will be assigned for summer student work
  space
• Keep time sheets and send weekly reports giving
  times and tasks, to your supervisor. Good basis
  for discussion.
• You are eligible for a 24 hour access card. You
  may have to pay or give a deposit. See Kristy at
  CS desk.

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General Information ctd.

• University closed between 24th Dec and 2nd Jan.
  Most staff away 23rd Dec to 6th Jan
• We will try to have a summer student morning tea
  weekly, in the staff room. Please attend!
• There will be a presentation day just before
  start of semester 1.
• Agent group meetings each Friday 3-5pm.

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General Information ctd.

• Payment is at end of studentship
• If you have not received pay from the department
  previously, you will need to see Margaret Pagonis
  and give your bank details.
• Questions?

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Agent Group Overview

• Intelligent agents
• Mostly work with BDI agents (Belief, Desire,
  Intention)
• JACK Intelligent Agents platform, from Agent
  Oriented Software
• Research collaboration AOS, Bureau of
  Meteorology, UoM physics, DFKI, (Agentis), ...

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Agent Group Overview

• Open agent systems
• Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, Wei Liu, Kenichi
  Yoshimura, Antony Iorio
• Agent Oriented Software Engineering
• Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, David Poutakidis,
  Hoa Dam
• Agent Representation and Reasoning
• James Harland, Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, Wei
  Liu, John Thangarajah

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Open Agent Systems

• Projects and grants
• Agentcities project (ARC grant)
• Bureau of meteorology project (ARC grant)
• High energy physics project (VPAC grant)

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Agent Oriented Software Engineering

• Michael ...

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Agent Representation and Reasoning

• Representing and reasoning about capabilities,
  goals, conflicts,
• Belief revision
• Linear logic agents

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Student Projects

• Methodology Comparisons
• Yenty Yenty, Sheilina Geerdharry, Robert Tanaman,
  Hiten Ravini, Sindewati Hoetomo
• Design for debugging
• Kenny Chen
• Design Tool
• Yogesh Jain

• Agentcities
• D. Kumaresh, Jason Khallouf, Sylvia Cendrawan, Li
  Sun, Norm Boessler
• Physics
• available on request to one Agentcities student
• Linear Logic Agents
• Soedarto Ng