Onn Shehory - Research Statement
My research interests are in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), both in theory
and implementation. I am interested in the design of the single agent
as well as the whole system, and in particular in the architectural
issues and the interaction protocols. The development of efficient and
stable algorithms for agent cooperation has captured a significant
part of my research during the last years. Traditional computer
science methods combined with methods from game theory and physics
served as a means for introducing new solutions to problems arising in
this new, exciting field of research. Specifically, I have been
working in the last years on cooperation and coalition formation in
MAS.
Currently I am involved in the RETSINA project (REusable Task-based
System of Intelligent Networked Agents) at CMU, the Robotic Institute,
where we design and implement agents to cooperatively perform tasks of
information gathering from multi-modal web sources and decision
support upon this information. We investigate issues of real time
performance, load balancing, interleaving planning and execution,
communication and coordination protocols, and human-computer
interface. A future implementation domain of our MAS on which we
currently work is the Wearable Computing Systems at CMU, involving
wearable computers and mobile agents. We also investigate the role of
MAS as a software engineering paradigm. We address issues of code
reusability and modularity and system robustness and flexibility, and
draw general guidelines for agent and MAS architecture and design.
Altogether, I am most interested in intelligent agents, multi-agent
systems, their applications and their role in mainstream computer
science.
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