RMIT Intelligent Agents Group: Research Areas

Group members:

Lin Padgham, John Thangarajah, Sebastian Sardina, Lawrence Cavedon, Fabio Zambetta, Dhirendra Singh, Wilson Wong, Miquel Ramirez, Saeed Shahbazi, + students

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Some Research Areas

– Agent Oriented Software Engineering (previous ARC)

– Behaviour Composition (ARC DP)

– Virtual Toys & Dialogue Management (ARC LP)

– Agent Based Simulation (ARC DP)

– Agent Based Games

– Other...

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Agent Oriented Software Engineering

- How do we design these agents in a structured manner?

- How can we support and use structured design artifacts?

- We continue to develop Prometheus methodology and PDT design tool, now an Eclipse plugin.

- Current focus on testing and on verification aspects.

Agent Technology

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Behaviour Composition in Smart Spaces (KR)

How do we represent this information?

How do we coordinate in a smart and automated way?

How do we prove that they work efficiently?

We are developing Techniques to do this- Automated Planning- Verification/Model checking- Reactive Synthesis- Agent Oriented Programming

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Agent Based Simulation – Emergency Management (++)

- How do we build modular agent based simulations with reusable components for use by policy makers and others?

- We have built a prototype evacuation planning simulation in collaboration with CFA and a flood preparation analysis simulation with City of Port Phillip and SES.

- Building strong links to social science. Adding BDI to ABMS. Looking at Urban Planning area.

MatSim

PeoplePhoenix

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Agents and Games

Synthesis of controllers to play or direct games in human-like fashion?

Creating controllers using BDI and learning: - Super Mario Turing Test AI - Angry Birds (Human vs machine) - Capture the flag (CTF)

Generating narrative in role playing games using BDI and planning: - BDI Gamemaster for comp. RPG - Game story construction using agent planning.

Interactive story-telling.

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Other projects/areas

Intention selection and management

Preferences in BDI plan selection

Online learning in agent systems

Planning in agent systems

Formal verification of agent systems