TEAMCORE News

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.

This February marks the 6th month anniversary of our test deployment of ARMOR at LAX.
The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems has announced they will honor the memory of Dr. Pragnesh Jay Modi by naming the Best Student Paper Award after him at its annual prestigious AAMAS Conference. Dr. Modi completed his Ph.D. from USC under Professor Tambe's supervision in 2003, and was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. He passed away unexpectedly in April 2007.
Government Computer News: LAX goes reliably random
Homeland Security Today: From Routine to Random
Nathan Schurr has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards human-multiagent teams".

Emma Bowring has successfully defended her PhD thesis Balancing local resources and global goals in multiply constrained distributed constraint optimization. She joins University of the Pacific as an Assistant Professor.
Slashdot: Using AI to train Firefighters
USC News: Computer Science Thesis Helps Train Firefighters
Ankit Modi has sucessfully graduated. He will join Yahoo! Inc. as a Software Engineer.
Jonathan Pearce has successfully defended his PhD thesis Local Optimization in Cooperative Agent Networks. He will join J.P. Morgan as an Associate.

Praveen Paruchuri has successfully defended his PhD thesis Keep the adversary guessing: Agent security by policy randomization. He will join Inteligent Automation Inc. as a research scientist.
Prof. Pragnesh Jay Modi, assistant professor at Drexel University Computer Science, a rising star in the area of agents and multiagent systems, and an alumni of the Teamcore research group passed away April 9, 2007.

Pradeep Varakantham has successfully defended his PhD thesis Towards efficient planning in real-world partially observable domains. He joined Carnegie Mellon University as a post-doctoral research associate.
Jonathan Pearce won the best paper award at the Distributed Constraint Reasoning workshop held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on AI, 2007.
Jonathan Pearce won the Outstanding Research Assistant Award in the Computer Science Department.

Disaster rescue on Channel 11 news (asx video file) Our research on disaster response multiagent simulations
Disaster rescue on Channel 13 news (asx video file)
Daily Breeze: Disaster game to the rescue
USC News Chronicle: Intelligent agents and Science Fiction: A new undergraduate class that focuses on teaching AI using science fiction