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Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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E-mail: katia at cs dot cmu dot edu

Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara, Research Professor, Robotics and holder (part time) of the Sixth Century Chair in computing Science, University of Aberdeen UK. Director of the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab.

Short Biography

Current research: Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Research

Multi-agent systems, human-robot interactions, game theoretic techniques, adversarial reasoning, machine learning, case-based reasoning, planning and scheduling, agents on the Internet, information fusion, agents in e-commerce, peer to peer systems, semantic web, semantic web services, grid computing, modeling cross-cultural negotiation and collaboration, and large scale human-machine systems.

Current groups/projects: Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab

• Modeling Synergies in Large Human-Machine Networked Systems (MURI funded by AFOSR)
• Command and Control of Multi-Robot Teams (ONR Science of Autonomy)
• Games on Graphs : modeling adversaries in complex networks (MURI funded by ONR)
• Complex Systems and Network Enabled Cognition (ARL International Technology Alliance)
• Modeling Cultural Factors in Collaboration and Negotiation (MURI funded by ARO)

• Projects
• Effective Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents for Command and Control
• Information Fusion for Command and Control
• Cooperative Attack Munition Real Time Assessment
• Range Operations
• Urban Search and Rescue
• Interoperability of Future Information Systems
• Agent-Based Composition of Behavioral Models
• Socket Migration
• e-Commerce
• e-Commerce Auctions
• Middle Agents
• WebMate
• Language for Agent Advertisement & Request
• Retsina MultiAgent Infrastructure
• Agent-Based Aircraft Maintenance
• Agent-Based Team Aiding
• Agent-Based Route Planning
• MultiAgent Learning
• Agent Interoperability
• MultiAgent System Interoperability
• MultiAgent System Security
• Intelligent Agent Matching System
• MultiAgent DeMining System
• MultiAgent Calendar Scheduling
• Financial Planning Agents
• Programming-by-Demonstration
• Text Mining
• Agent Transaction Language for Advertising Services
• Semantic Web Calendar Agent
• Local Area Network Agent Discovery
• Agent-to-Agent Discovery
• Mobile Communications of Heterogeneous Agents
• Agent Crisis Response
• The DAML-S Matchmaker
• Language for Semantic Web Services: DAML-S

• CABINS - Case based scheduling.
• CASE-BASED DESIGN
  • CADET - Case-based design using influence graphs.
  • WATT - Integration of Case-based and Model-based design.
• CONCE - Concurrent Engineering.
• CORA - Problem solving through COordinated Reactive Agents.
• PERSUADER - CBR and negotiation.
• EMMA - Enterprise Integration
• CADIS - Cased-based design and value engineering.
• CORTES - Constraint-based scheduling.
• DITOPS - Transportation scheduling.

Air Force Eglin Munitions Lab: CAMRA
MURI
COABS

• Effective Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents for Command and Control
• Agent Crisis Response: NEO
• Contributions to the CoAX TIE
  
Darpa Agent Mark-up Language (DAML)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (PRET)
NASA: Range Operations
National Science Foundation: Urban Search and Rescue
Office of Naval Research:
• Interoperability of Future Information Systems
• Agent-based Composition of Behavioral Models (ABC)

Lectures

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• The Agent Foundations Classes are designed to make the construction of the many types of agents a semi-automated process, in order to extend their distribution, and thus increase the usefulness and effectivity of already-existing agents. For download, click here.
• The RETSINA Semantic Web Calendar Agent provides interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM) Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook. The RETSINA Calendar Agent is available for download: Click here.
• MIGSOCK is a solution to the problem of socket migration. MIGSOCK provides a Linux kernel module that re-implements TCP to make migration possible. MIGSOCK is available for download, with permission. Click here.
• Text Miner is a text classification agent application for Intelligent Agent portfolio management. Text Miner will be available for download soon.
• WebMate is a personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing that enhances searches and learns user interests. Webmate is available for download. Click here.

• Katia Sycara has been named representative of the DAML Service Coalition to the WWW consortium (W3C) Working Group on Web Service Architecture.

• Katia Sycara of Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2002. Dr. Sycara has made significant contributions to a number of subareas of agent research, including agent architectures, middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation.

• Katia Sycara was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for her "significant contributions to case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, and multi-agent systems." One of a small select group of individuals elected each year, Sycara was recognized at the Fellows Dinner on July 30, during AAAI 2002 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.