A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Romanian universities in the Action

AI-MAS Laboratory

University "Politehnica" of BucharestDepartment of Computer Science

Adina Magda Florea

COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory

Focus 1: Models and architectures for

• multi-agents• single agents

Coordination mechanisms, automated negotiation, agent learning

Affective agents Apply agent technology in different areas:

e-commerce, e-learning, SCM, and AmI Self-organization of complex systems and how agents

can contribute to the development of such systems.

with artificial intelligent behaviour

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory

Focus 2: Connection

• web services• semantic representation• agents on the Web

Development of agents that offer semantic web services to support different aspects of business processing and enterprise interoperability

AI-MAS People

Adina

IrinaAndrei

Andrei

Serban

Claudiu

Zung

AndreeaMircea

Cristi

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

AGATE: Self-organizing self-aware cognitive agent societies for modelling and simulation of complex systems. 2009-2011 – financed by CNCSIS

Self-organization of software agents Self-aware software agents Modify the behaviour and relationships in response to

the interactions with other agents and with a dynamic environment.

Complex software systems, including systems comprising different artefacts (such as mobile devices, active RFIDs) and actors (such as artificial agents and human users).

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

SCIPA: Collaboration and Interoperability Semantic Software Services for Adaptive Business Processes. 2009-2011

Interoperability of software services at semantic level

Adaptability of the business processes Composition of new services in a dynamic

business environment. Business processes that include semantic

annotation of components.

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

A-ROADS: A multi-agent system for next-generation urban traffic control environments. 2007-2008

A multi-agent system for governing interactions of autonomous vehicles in intersections by exploiting the increasing amounts of available sensor data.

A vehicle is represented by an autonomous entity associated to the sensor instrument - vehicle agent

Junctions are represented by intersection agents. Vehicle agents communicate with intersection agents in

their proximity

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

MIRA - My IRrational Agent, 2005-2007 A model and an implementation of

emotional agents Extending the classical BDI model to cope

with emotions Agent’s mechanisms of belief change,

decision-making and planning based on emotional intelligence.

Application: e-learning

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

ADEPT: A Multi-agent system based on autonomous agents with adjustable autonomy. 2005-2007

Intelligent agents, which adapt their behavior, autonomy, task distribution and resource allocation according to the problem to be solved and to the given environment.

Agents have adjustable autonomy depending on the task and context

It also comprises agents that are hosted by small devices, such as smart phones.

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Projects

I-Trace - Interactive Tracing and Graphical Annotation in Pen-based e-learning.EU Minerva Grant, 2005-2008

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Cooperation and networking

COST Action IC0801: Agreement Technologies (2008-2012)

Agent Link III, II (Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing)

Erasmus Mundus Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management (starts in 2010)• Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

PhD in joint coordination: ENMSE, UPMC

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

AI-MAS Events

MASTS 2009 – International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics

ACSys – International Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems, in cooperation with University of Timisoara

South Eastern European Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems, July 2010 – sponsored by IFAAMAS (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Towards AmI applications

AGATE SCIPA ADEPT A-ROADS

SOS + AmI

Self-organising systems• large number of individuals• based on interaction• emergent organisation of higher levelAmbient Intelligence (AmI)• large number of devices• limited capability of devices• information exchanged by interaction• centralized organisation is very difficult

A.M. Florea, Cognitive systems, COST Action IC0801 – WG1, 15 December, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Towards an affective e-learning companion

Extend MIRA•Enhancement with virtual agents

(persona)•Application: e-learning for differently

enabled people