Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:13:42 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.1 Last-modified: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 14:30:31 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 4963 Ed Durfee's Homepage

Edmund H. Durfee...

is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.


E-mail: durfee@umich.edu
Mail: UM AI Laboratory, 1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor MI 48109-2110, USA
Voice: (313) 936-1563
Fax: (313) 763-1260

Portrait

Research Interests (perpetually under construction...)

My research centers around intelligent coordination among multiple (semi-)autonomous systems, involving the proactive selection (planning) of physical/communicative/computational actions that improve performance in a multiagent context. My work thus is concerned with how artificial agents should decide what courses of action to commit to given a multiagent world, how they should meet those commitments (including meeting real-time constraints), and how they should revise and renegotiate their commitments based on unexpected events in their environment.

The projects/groups that I am involved in include:

Our multiagent simulation testbed, MICE, is available via anonymous ftp, and some of my papers are available in compressed postscript format.

Short Biography

Edmund H. Durfee received the AB degree in chemistry and physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1980, the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering and the PhD degree in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., in 1984 and 1987, respectively. His PhD research developed an approach for planning coordinated actions and interactions in a network of distributed AI problem-solving systems.

He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where his interests are in distributed artificial intelligence, planning, blackboard systems, and real-time problem solving. He has published extensively in these areas, and is author of the book Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers (Kluwer Academic Press). In his most recent work, he has been designing a framework for coordination based on hierarchical, multi-dimensional behavior specifications, and he has been developing an integrating architecture for combining real-time and intelligent systems. He is a 1991 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1988, he was a Research Computer Scientist in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and has served on a number of conference and workshop program committees, including co-chairing the 1992 Distributed AI Workshop. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, AAAI, and AAAS.

A more complete, postscript version of my vita is available.

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