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Research Program for Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems

Research

Research Areas

Our research in Intelligent Agents and Multi Agent Systems focuses on autonomous decision-making, coordination and adaptation mechanisms for agent systems situated in open dynamic environments characterised by the presence of changing, incomplete and uncertain information. The research areas include complex agent negotiations and collective decision-making, distributed learning and adaptation in multi-agent systems, dynamic interactions and organisational mechanisms, and intelligent mobile agents and service-oriented agents. The application areas involve adaptive SLA and QoS management in service-oriented environments, collaborative e-business and virtual organisations, smart environments and pervasive computing, and complex adaptive systems.

(A) Complex agent negotiations and decision-making

  • 1. Preference elicitation, aggregation and evaluation
  • 2. Design, convergence, optimality of negotiation strategies
  • 3. Multi-attribute, multi-lateral, multi-stage negotiation mechanisms
  • 4. Heterogenous, collective and emergent decision-making
  • 5. Asynchronous multi-party decision-making and negotiation
  • 6. Qualitative, fuzzy, linguistic and perception-based negotiations

(B) Distributed learning and adaptation in multi-agent systems

  • 1. Learning and evolving decision models and strategies
  • 2. Possibilistic learning in distributed and dynamic environments
  • 3. Adversarial learning and opponent modelling
  • 4. Collective learning and multi-agent adaptation
  • 5. Responsive learning

(C) Interactions and dynamic organisations

  • 1. Evolving interaction protocols and argumentation
  • 2. Direct and indirect interactions in coordination, competition, collaboration and coopetition
  • 3. Negotiated and emergent coalition formation, operation and disbanding
  • 4. Dynamic team composition and self-assembly
  • 5. Inverse design of dynamic interactions and decision strategies

(D) Intelligent Mobile Agents

  • 1. Mobility models, high-performance migration protocols
  • 2. Intelligent itinerary planning

(E) Application areas

  • 1. Web/Grid Services Management: service discovery, composition, SLA negotiation, control and adaptation
  • 2. E-commerce/E-business: coopetitive trading, dynamic contracting, business negotiation
  • 3. Virtual Enterprises and Organisations: dynamic formation, coordination and evolution of virtual organisations, integration of inter-organisational business processes, collaborative virtual environments and organisations
  • 4. Smart Environments and Pervasive Computing: dynamic management, control and diagnosis of networked, mobile and embedded devices
  • 5. Complex Adaptive Systems: modelling and optimisation of socio-economical systems

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