Control and Brokering Group
The
CoABS Control and Brokering group shares an interest in studying the challenges
of controlling the identification, allocation, and coordination of capabilities
and resources in a networked agent system.
Participating research groups include:
Carnegie-Mellon
University (Katia Sycara)
Crystalize
(Sankar Virdhagriswaran)
Dartmouth
(David Kotz, Daniela Rus)
Stanford/SRI/BritishColumbia
(Yoav Shoham, Moises Goldszmidt, Craig Boutilier)
University
of Michigan (Ed Durfee)
USC/ISI
(Milind Tambe)
Other
group participants include:
Michael
Huhns (U. South Carolina) – co-coordinator
James
Lawton (Rome Labs) – facilitator
George
Cybenko (Dartmouth) – coordinator for Scaling TIES (of which Control/Brokering
is one)
Frank
Born (Rome Labs)
The
following are papers suggested by each participating group to get quickly up to
speed with that project. One paper
(preferably, a short conference paper) per group:
A comparison matrix to begin formulating the landscape
covered by the group’s control and brokering technologies is also under
development.