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Michael Rectenwald
Writer/Editor III

No longer a member of RI.

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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I am currently working as a writer for Katia Sycara as part of the Intelligent Agents Group, documenting several of the software agent projects developing within the group. For more information, please visit my Personal Homepage.

• Case Based Reasoning Lab - Case based reasoning and related AI areas
• Evolutionary Computation
• Intelligent Software Agents - Here, researchers explore multi-agent planning and scheduling, multi-agent learning, multi-agent negotiation, and decision support for human teams

• A-Match - A-Match, the interface to the RETSINA Matchmaker, provides a web interface for users to advertise their agents, customize agents, find other agents, and query them.
• 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.
• Adaptive Web-Based Information Gathering and Filtering
• 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 Aided Command and Control
• Agent Storm - Agent Storm is a scenario where agents autonomously coordinate their team-oriented roles and actions while executing a mission.
• Aircraft Maintenance - A wearable software system that uses RETSINA agents to assist in the process of documenting and making repairs to aircraft.
• Bazaar - we are developing an adaptive, multi-issue negotiation model capable of exhibiting a rich set of negotiation behaviors for electronic commerce
• CABINS - Case based scheduling.
• Case-based Design Tool - Case-based design using influence graphs.
• COALA - We are developing a model of inter-organizational electronic commerce.
• CONCE - Concurrent Engineering
• Cooperative Information Agents
• Coordinated Reactive Agents - Problem solving through Coordinated Reactive Agents.
• CORTES - CORTES is an integrated framework for production planning, scheduling and control (PSC). CORTES uses Constrained Heuristic Search to make PSC decisions.
• Daml-S - We are developing DAML as part of the Semantic Web initiative.
• 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.
• Dynamic Visualized Information Agent - Knowledge-Based Agent for Information Extraction & Retrieval
• Dynamics of Complex Engineered Societies - in this project, researchers deal with scaling of the evolutionary search
• Electronic Commerce
• Experience Based Synthesis of Electronic Mechanical Devices
• Integrating Intelligent Assistants into Human Teams (Joccasta) - A multi-disciplinary research project designed to increase the effectiveness of team decision making in joint planning tasks.
• Interoperability of Future Information Systems - We are developing techniques to help users diagnose and remedy network interoperability problems.
• Language for Advertisement and Request for Knowledge Sharing - A common agent capability description language (ACDL) for matching service-requesting software agents with service-providing software agents.
• Matchmaker - A middle agent that facilitates conections among agents that provide services and agents that request services.
• Middle Agents for the Internet
• MIGSOCK - We are developing MIGSOCK, a Linux kernel module that re-implements TCP to make socket migration possible.
• MINTEC - Supply chain management
• Mobile Communications amongst Heterogeneous Agents - We are developing a multi-agent system for "Anyware" communications and display.
• MokSAF - A software environment for route planning and team coordination.
• 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 Configuration Manager - We present the RETSINA Configuration Manager, RECoMa, which uses agent infrastructure to assist the multi-agent system administrator in allocating, launching, and monitoring a heterogeneous distributed agent system.
• 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
• Secure Agent Name Server - We are developing a secure agent name server which requires preregistration for deployment.
• Text Miner - We are developing Text Miner, a system that automatically classifies news reports on a company's financial outlook.
• Thales - Satellite visibility forecaster
• WARREN - The WARREN system is a multi-agent application that is designed to help users monitor and manage their financial portfolio.
• WATT - Integration of Case-based and Model-based design
• WebMate - A personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing that enhances searches and learns user interests.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Installation, Running and Editing Instructions for the ClassificationBox Text Classification Tool
  M. Rectenwald, Y. Seo, K. Lee, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [81 KB] copyrighted

• Proof of Concept System for Automatically Determining `Need-to-Know' Access Privileges: Installation Notes and User Guide
  M. Rectenwald, K. Lee, Y. Seo, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1151 KB] copyrighted

• RETSINA Agent Name Service Documentation
  M. Rectenwald, J.A. Giampapa, B.K. Langley, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [337 KB] copyrighted

• User Guide for MORSE Command Simulation: Setup and Running Instructions
  M. Rectenwald, R. Singh, J.A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, S. Esch, and B. John
  tech. report TR-03-40, Robotics Institute / Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted

• User Guide for MORSEStation Range Operations Simulation
  M. Rectenwald, R. Singh, J.A. Giampapa, S. Sesch, K. Sycara, and B. John
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-37, Robotics Institute / Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [844 KB] copyrighted