About

Mission

Aims and Objectives

• To conduct internationally recognised research in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems
• To collaborate with other research programs and collectively contribute to the research themes in CITR
• To provide high quality research training and education
• To engage in collaborative research both nationally and internationally
• To engage industry through collaboration, consulting and other commercial activities

Background Information

An intelligent multi-agent system comprises a number of intelligent software agents that can autonomously function and interact in a complex dynamic environment. The agents are intelligent software entities that have the abilities to perceive the environment, reason about own and other agents' goals, strategies and actions, and make decisions about the best course of actions in order to achieve desired outcomes. Each agent is autonomous as it controls its internal states, decision-making processes, behaviour and interactions. The agents can adapt to changes in the environment, behaviour of other agents and learn from experience. They interact with other agents through direct communication or indirectly through their actions on the environment. The overall behaviour and performance of the system depends on the individual agents' behaviours and interactions that can often result in an emergent behaviour of the system.

Contact

Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk
Program Leader

Tel: +61 3 9214 5834
Fax: +61 3 9819 0823
Email: rkowalczyk@swin.edu.au