1. Matteo Venanzi PhD Student, IAM Group - School of Electronics & Computer Science mv1g10@ecs.soton.ac.ukmv1g10@ecs.soton.ac.uk – B32/4081 www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/mv1g10 Presenting my research area... Talk at the 4 day Research & Presentation Skills training course. April 2011 Multi-Agent Systems & Crowdsourcing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Haiti Earthquake 2010 16

17. Haiti Earthquake 2010 17 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing.

18. Haiti Earthquake 2010 18 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion

19. Haiti Earthquake 2010 19 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion Economic Mechanisms Incentivise truthful Reports

20. Haiti Earthquake 2010 20 Presenting my research area...MAS, Trust, Crowdsourcing. Data Fusion Economic Mechanisms Incentivise truthful Reports Real Application Scenario

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

22. Thank you. Questions?

23. Matteo Venanzi PhD Student, IAM Group - School of Electronics & Computer Science mv1g10@ecs.soton.ac.ukmv1g10@ecs.soton.ac.uk - B32/4081 www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/mv1g10 Presenting my research area... Talk at the 4 day Research & Presentation Skills training course. April 2011 Multi-Agent Systems, Trust, Crowdsourcing.