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Joseph Andrew Giampapa
Project Manager

Associated center: CIMDS

Email address: garof@andrew.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

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My primary research interests are in multi-agent systems, AI, and language technologies, which I augment with past commercial experiences in knowledge-based systems design and development, software engineering, project management, telecommunications and data networking, and intelligent tutoring systems.

artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning, concurrent design, concurrent engineering, design, education, human-computer interaction, machine learning, machine translation, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, networking, rapid prototyping, and speech generation and recognition

Program Committee Member
Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning, Sixth European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2002)
Invited Speakers Committee, CPSR/Boston (1988-1989)

Reviewer for:
15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002)
In'l Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (2002)
International Conference on Autonomous Agents Conferences (2000 - 2001)
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2001)
RoboCup Symposium 2001

Teaching Assistant for GSIA Master of Science in Electronic Commerce (MSEC) Program, 20-854: Intelligent Agents 2000 - 2001
Thesis Reader and Advisor for Information Networking Institute (INI) MS Students 2001 - 2002

Professional Organizations
American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1999 - present
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 1994 - present
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) 1992 - present
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR/Boston) 1986 - 1996
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) 1992 - 1996

• Intelligent Software Agents - Here, researchers explore multi-agent planning and scheduling, multi-agent learning, multi-agent negotiation, and decision support for human teams

• Adaptive Interoperability of Multiple Heterogeneous Agents - To enable requester agents to find provider agents in environments with heterogeneous and dynamic information services, we have developed middle agents which serve to increase agent interoperability.
• AFOSR PRET: Information Fusion for Command and Control: The Translation of Raw Data To Actionable Knowledge and Decision - We are conducting a multidisciplinary research effort to develop the next generation of information fusion systems.
• Agent Storm - Agent Storm is a scenario where agents autonomously coordinate their team-oriented roles and actions while executing a mission.
• Daml-S (Semantic) Matchmaker - We have developed our Semantic Matchmaker, an entity that will allow web services to locate other services, using DAML-S, a DAML-based language for describing service capabilities.
• Discovery - We are developing an autoconfiguration mechanism for agents and infrastructures.
• IBM ITA: Human-Agent Teamwork Models - We are developing models of human-agent teamwork for implementation in software agent systems.
• Matchmaker - A middle agent that facilitates conections among agents that provide services and agents that request services.
• MIGSOCK - We are developing MIGSOCK, a Linux kernel module that re-implements TCP to make socket migration possible.
• MORSE - The MORSE project is a simulated range operation, designed to evaluate effectiveness of the cognitive models and agents, in order to improve individual and team performance.
• Pleiades - A project aimed at developing methods for automating negotiation among agents and implementing effective machine learning techniques.
• RETSINA Semantic Web Calendar Agent - We are Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent to assist in organizing and scheduling meetings between several individuals, and coordinating these meetings based on existing schedules maintained by MS Outlook.
• Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent Network Agents - An architecture for developing distributed intelligent software agents that cooperate asynchronously to perform goal-directed information retrieval and information integration in support of a varie
• Text Miner - We are developing Text Miner, a system that automatically classifies news reports on a company's financial outlook.
• Urban Search and Rescue - We are developing Hybrid Teams of Autonomous Agents: Cyber Agents, Robots and People (CARPs) to address the challenges of urban search and rescue.
• WARREN - The WARREN system is a multi-agent application that is designed to help users monitor and manage their financial portfolio.
• WebMate - A personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing that enhances searches and learns user interests.

• A Model of Human Teamwork for Agent-Assisted Search Operations
  G. Sukthankar, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, and C. Burnett
  NATO Research and Technology Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium (NATO HFM-142/RTO Symposium), NATO RTA / HFM, B.P. 25, 7 Rue Ancelle, F-92201 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, France, April, 2008. [Abstract]
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• Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search
  G. Sukthankar, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, C. Burnett, and A. Preece
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science, September, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options
  C. Li, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents, Vol. 36, No. 1, January, 2006. [Abstract]
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• An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed
  J.A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, S.R. Owens, R. Glinton, Y. Seo, B. Yu, C.E. Grindle, Y. Xu, and M. Lewis
  Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997, Vol. 2, July, 2005. [Abstract]
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• An Evidential Model of Multisensor Decision Fusion for Force Aggregation and Classification
  B. Yu, J.A. Giampapa, S.R. Owens, and K. Sycara
  Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997, July, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Intent Inference Using a Potential Field Model of Environmental Influences
  R. Glinton, S.R. Owens, J.A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, M. Lewis, and C. Grindle
  Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997, July, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations
  K. Sycara, P. Scerri, J.A. Giampapa, S. Srinivas, and M. Lewis
  12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, July, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Techniques and Directions for Building Very Large Agent Teams
  P. Scerri, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  2005 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS'05: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering, IEEE Boston Section, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855--1331, April, 2005, pp. 79--84. [Abstract]
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• Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process
  G. Lai, C. Li, K. Sycara, and J.A. Giampapa
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed
  J.A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, S.R. Owens, R. Glinton, Y. Seo, B. Yu, C.E. Grindle, and M. Lewis
  SIMULATION: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, December, 2004. [Abstract]
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