Transcript Day 1 A03: Design and Methodologies for the Development of

Intelligent Agents Group
(part of the Intelligent Systems group, or AI group)
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Staff and Project Supervisors
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Lin Padgham
 Michael Winikoff
 Kenichi Yoshimura
 James Harland
 Wei Liu
 David Poutakidis
 Antony Iorio
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Summer Students
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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
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8 weeks full time work. Hours roughly 9-6 (or 11-8) MF. You should be “at work” not working from home.
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2 labs will be assigned for summer student work space
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Keep time sheets and send weekly reports giving
times and tasks, to your supervisor. Good basis for
discussion.
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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.
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University closed between 24th Dec and 2nd Jan.
Most staff away 23rd Dec to 6th Jan
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We will try to have a summer student morning tea
weekly, in the staff room. Please attend!
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There will be a presentation day just before start of
semester 1.
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Agent group meetings each Friday 3-5pm.
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General Information ctd.
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Payment is at end of studentship
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If you have not received pay from the department
previously, you will need to see Margaret Pagonis and
give your bank details.
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Questions?
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Agent Group Overview
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Intelligent agents
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Mostly work with “BDI” agents (Belief, Desire,
Intention)
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JACK Intelligent Agents platform, from Agent Oriented
Software
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Research collaboration: AOS, Bureau of Meteorology,
UoM physics, DFKI, (Agentis), ...
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Agent Group Overview
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Open agent systems
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Agent Oriented Software Engineering
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Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, Wei Liu, Kenichi Yoshimura,
Antony Iorio
Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, David Poutakidis, Hoa Dam
Agent Representation and Reasoning
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James Harland, Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, Wei Liu,
John Thangarajah
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Open Agent Systems
Projects and grants:
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Agentcities project (ARC grant)
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Bureau of meteorology project (ARC grant)
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High energy physics project (VPAC grant)
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Agent Oriented Software
Engineering
Michael ...
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Agent Representation and
Reasoning
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Representing and reasoning about capabilities, goals,
conflicts, …
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Belief revision
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Linear logic agents
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Student Projects
Methodology Comparisons
Agentcities
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Yenty Yenty, Sheilina
Geerdharry, Robert Tanaman,
Hiten Ravini, Sindewati
Hoetomo
D. Kumaresh, Jason
Khallouf, Sylvia Cendrawan,
Li Sun, Norm Boessler
Physics
Design for debugging
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Kenny Chen
available on request to one
Agentcities student
Design Tool
Linear Logic Agents
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Yogesh Jain
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Soedarto Ng