Distributed Intelligent Agents Group

This page describes the current research being conducted by DIAG, the Distributed Intelligent Agents Group, at the University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Project Description

Specific project descriptions are available for:

• Multiagent Planning and Coordination as Distributed Search
• Multiagent Planning and Coordination for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Coordination through Plan Recognition
• Organizational Self Design
• Intelligent Agent Infrastructures for Supporting Collaboration
• Recursive Agent Modeling
• UM Procedural Reasoning System (UM-PRS)
• Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
• Strategic and Adaptive Reasoning in an Information Economy (part of UMDL)

Personnel

Edmund H. Durfee

Jose Vidal - Graduate Student

YoungPa So - Graduate Student

Sunju Park - Graduate Student

Aaron Armstrong - Graduate Student

Brad Clement - Graduate Student

Pradeep Pappachan - Graduate Student

Tom Bersano - Graduate Student

Alumni

• Sandip Sen, Assistant Professor, U. of Tulsa , Oklahoma
• Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Assistant Professor, U. of Texas, Arlington
• Thomas A. Montgomery, Ford Research Laboratory, Dearborn MI
• Marcus J. Huber, Orincon Corporation, San Diego, CA
• Jaeho Lee, Orincon Corporation, San Diego, CA

Some Publications:

A list of a few local papers on the general topic of distributed AI (lots more publications are associated with the individual projects).

Edmund H. Durfee. Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, June 1995.

Edmund H. Durfee. What Your Computer Really Needs to Know, You Learned in Kindergarten. In Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 858-864, July 1992.

Edmund H. Durfee. The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Melting Pot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, SMC-21(6):1301-1306, November 1991.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, KDE-1(1):63-83, March 1989.

Edmund H. Durfee. Planning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, in G. O'Hare and N. Jennings (eds.) Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Wiley 1995 (to appear).

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. Distributed Problem Solving, in S. Shapiro (ed.) Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence , second edition, Wiley 1992.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving, in A. Barr, P. Cohen, and E. Feigenbaum (eds.) The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence , Volume IV, Addison Wesley, 1989.

Edmund H. Durfee and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein. Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems: Comparisons and Examples. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, pages 94-104, July 1994.

Other Distributed AI Resources

U. of Massachusetts CDPS Laboratory (contains many pointers to other sources as well!).