The Teamcore research group is focused on
research on
multi-agent systems, where multiple agents (including software agents,
robots and people) may interact. Our work has typically focused on
situations where such interactions are collaborative, often in form of
agent teams that must operate in highly uncertain or dynamic
environments; our goal remains to scale up to 100s or 1000s of
heterogeneous team members per team. To this end, we focus on
fundamental research issues in Belief-Desire-Intentions (BDI) systems,
in Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR), and in Decision Theoretic
and
Game Theoretic approaches for multiagent systems, as well as on
practical implementations.
The Teamcore group is part of the Department of Computer Science
at the
University of Southern California.
Additional Post-doctoral Research Associate Position:
We have a new opening for an additional post-doctoral research
associate position starting in June 2008.
Research will focus on the areas of fundamental research outlined
above, with emphasis on new algorithms and but also on their practical
implementations/applications. Interested applicants should send their
CV and have three letters of recommendation forwarded to Prof. Milind
Tambe (tambe@usc.edu).
Recent news March 2008 - May 2008:
- ARMOR in House Committee Hearings The Armor system, deployed at the Los Angeles International
airport, discussed at the Congressional Committee Hearings on Homeland Security
- Best paper, CTS2008 Our paper from the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies
and Systems (CTS 2008) won the best paper award. The paper is entitled Multiagent Adjustable
Autonomy Framework (MAAF) for multirobot multihuman teams .
- Finalist for Best paper, AAMAS2008 Industry track Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008) a finalist for the best paper award. The paper is
entitled Deployed ARMOR protection: The Application of a Game Theoretic Model for Security at the Los
Angeles International Airport.
- Janusz Marecki successfully defended his PhD thesis
Planning with Continuous Resources in Agent Systems
. He will joing IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research scientist.
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