Matteo Venanzi PhD Student, IAM Group - School of Electronics & Computer Science – B32/ Presenting my research area... Talk at the 4 day Research & Presentation Skills training course. April 2011 Multi-Agent Systems & Crowdsourcing.

Outline  Multi-agent systems: key notions  Crowdsourcing domains for Disaster Response 2

3 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

4 Autonomous Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

5 Autonomous Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Rational

6 Autonomous Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Rational Self-Interest

7 Autonomous Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Rational Self-Interest Open Decentralized

8 Autonomous Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Rational Self-Interest Humans Open Decentralized Robots Devices

Multi-Agent Systems  Multidisciplinary: AI, Game Theory, Cognitive Science...  UK: the most important European research groups in MAS (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Southampton)  Southampton: the world’s biggest research group in MAS (120 researchers) 9 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Trust in MAS  Evolution of Cooperation.  Relevance: decision-making, anticipatory process, delegation, confident actions.  Forms: expectation, accuracy prediction, stereotypes, mental state. 10 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing 11 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing  “Crowd” of agents that provide information 12 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing  “Crowd” of agents that provide information – ORCHID – 6 Millions pounds research project funded by the UK research council. 13 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing  “Crowd” of agents that provide information – ORCHID – 6 Millions pounds research project funded by the UK research council.  Crowdsourcing for Disaster Response: 14 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing  “Crowd” of agents that provide information – ORCHID – 6 Millions pounds research project funded by the UK research council.  Crowdsourcing for Disaster Response: – Search and Rescue. – Mapping. – Resource allocation. 15 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Haiti Earthquake

Haiti Earthquake Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

Haiti Earthquake Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion

Haiti Earthquake Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion Economic Mechanisms Incentivise truthful Reports

Haiti Earthquake Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion Economic Mechanisms Incentivise truthful Reports Real Application Scenario

Conclusions  General framework of a MAS  Key issues of crowdsourcing in Disaster Response 21

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Matteo Venanzi PhD Student, IAM Group - School of Electronics & Computer Science - B32/ Presenting my research area... Talk at the 4 day Research & Presentation Skills training course. April 2011 Multi-Agent Systems, Trust, Crowdsourcing.