1 Intelligent Agents Group (part of the Intelligent Systems group, or AI group)

2 Staff and Project Supervisors  Lin Padgham  Michael Winikoff  Kenichi Yoshimura  James Harland  Wei Liu  David Poutakidis  Antony Iorio

3 Summer Students  Yenty Yenty  Sheilina Geerdharry  Robert Tanaman  Hiten Ravini  Sindewati Hoetomo  Kenny Chen  Yogesh Jain  D. Kumaresh  Jason Khallouf  Sylvia Cendrawan  Li Sun  Norm Boessler  Soedarto Ng

4 General Information  8 weeks full time work. Hours roughly 9-6 (or 11-8) M- F. You should be “at work” not working from home.  2 labs will be assigned for summer student work space  Keep time sheets and send weekly reports giving times and tasks, to your supervisor. Good basis for discussion.  You are eligible for a 24 hour access card. You may have to pay or give a deposit. See Kristy at CS desk.

5 General Information ctd.  University closed between 24th Dec and 2nd Jan. Most staff away 23rd Dec to 6th Jan  We will try to have a summer student morning tea weekly, in the staff room. Please attend!  There will be a presentation day just before start of semester 1.  Agent group meetings each Friday 3-5pm.

6 General Information ctd.  Payment is at end of studentship  If you have not received pay from the department previously, you will need to see Margaret Pagonis and give your bank details.  Questions?

7 Agent Group Overview  Intelligent agents  Mostly work with “BDI” agents (Belief, Desire, Intention)  JACK Intelligent Agents platform, from Agent Oriented Software  Research collaboration: AOS, Bureau of Meteorology, UoM physics, DFKI, (Agentis),...

8 Agent Group Overview  Open agent systems F Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, Wei Liu, Kenichi Yoshimura, Antony Iorio  Agent Oriented Software Engineering F Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, David Poutakidis, Hoa Dam  Agent Representation and Reasoning F James Harland, Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, Wei Liu, John Thangarajah

9 Open Agent Systems Projects and grants:  Agentcities project (ARC grant)  Bureau of meteorology project (ARC grant)  High energy physics project (VPAC grant)

10 Agent Oriented Software Engineering Michael...

11 Agent Representation and Reasoning  Representing and reasoning about capabilities, goals, conflicts, …  Belief revision  Linear logic agents

12 Student Projects Methodology Comparisons  Yenty Yenty, Sheilina Geerdharry, Robert Tanaman, Hiten Ravini, Sindewati Hoetomo Design for debugging  Kenny Chen Design Tool  Yogesh Jain Agentcities  D. Kumaresh, Jason Khallouf, Sylvia Cendrawan, Li Sun, Norm Boessler Physics  available on request to one Agentcities student Linear Logic Agents  Soedarto Ng