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Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Associate Professor, ISRI

No longer a member of RI.

Email address: sadeh@cs.cmu.edu

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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• Mobile Commerce ("m-Commerce"): new technologies, services, business models and policy-related issues
• Ubiquitous Computing and Context-Awareness
• Agent Technologies and the Semantic Web
• Internet-enabled Supply Chain Management ("e-Supply Chain Management")
• Constraint Satisfaction and Combinatorial Optimization problems

manufacturing and scheduling

• Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory - developing new theories, techniques and software technologies in planning, scheduling and control

• Enterprise Integration for Global Manufacture for the 21st Century - An industrial project aimed at creating the new processes and technologies for managing and operating global manufacturing businesses in the dynamic market environment of the 21st century.
• Integrated Process Planning/Production Scheduling - A blackboard-based agent architecture for supporting mixed-initiative decision-making and integration functionalities.
• Intelligent Combinatorial Optimization - We are developing adaptive mechanisms to speed up Simulated Annealing search.
• Micro-Opportunistic Scheduling - Work involving Micro-Boss: a dynamic finite capacity scheduling tool for supporting efficient just-in-time operation in complex manufacturing environments subject to rapidly changing conditions.
• Planning and Coordination in Virtual Extended Enterprises - A blackboard-based agent architecture for supporting flexible multi-level lateral and vertical planning and coordination functionalities across extended and virtual enterprises.
• Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis - The development of tools and techniques that enable modeling and analysis of emerging supply chain management strategies and practices.

• Agent-based e-Supply Chain Decision Support
  N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, D. Hildum, and D. Kjenstad
  Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol. 13, No. 3, March, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [357 KB] copyrighted

• MASCOT: An Agent-Based Architecture for Coordinated Mixed-Initiative Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling
  N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, D. Hildum, D. Kjenstad, and A. Tseng
  Workshop notes, Agent-Based Decision Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply Chain, Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '99), May, 1999.
  Download: pdf [102 KB], ps.gz [422 KB] copyrighted

• A Blackboard Architecture for Integrating Process Planning and Production Scheduling
  N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, D. Hildum, D. Kjenstad, A. Tseng, T.J. Laliberty, and J. McA'Nulty
  Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications, Vol. 6, No. 2, June, 1998.
  Download: pdf [110 KB], ps.gz [233 KB] copyrighted

• Modeling the Dynamics of Supply Chains
  J.M. Swaminathan, S. Smith, and N. Sadeh-Koniecpol
  Decision Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 3, June, 1998, pp. 607 - 632. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [261 KB] copyrighted

• Effects of Sharing Supplier Capacity Information
  J. Swaminathan, N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, and S. Smith
  September, 1997.
  Download: pdf [251 KB], ps.gz [99 KB] copyrighted

• Blackboard Agents for Mixed-Initiative Management of Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling Solutions Across the Supply Chain
  D. Hildum, N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, T.J. Laliberty, J. McA'Nulty, S. Smith, and D. Kjenstad
  Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-97), July, 1997.
  Download: pdf [73 KB], ps.gz [197 KB] copyrighted

• Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics: A Multiagent Approach
  J. Swaminathan, S. Smith, and N. Sadeh-Koniecpol
  Decision Sciences, April, 1997.
  Download: pdf [269 KB], ps.gz [138 KB] copyrighted

• Learning to Recognize (Un)Promising Simulated Annealing Runs: Efficient Search Procedures for Job Shop Scheduling and Vehicle Routing
  N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, Y. Nakakuki, and S.R. Thangiah
  Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 75, 1997, pp. 189-208.
  Download: pdf [218 KB] copyrighted

• A Blackboard Architecture for Integrated Process Planning and Production Scheduling
  T.J. Laliberty, D. Hildum, N. Sadeh-Koniecpol, J. McA'Nulty, D. Kjenstad, and S. Smith
  Proceedings ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, August, 1996.
  Download: pdf [32 KB], ps.gz [26 KB] copyrighted

• A Multi-Agent Framework for Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics
  J.M. Swaminathan, S. Smith, and N. Sadeh-Koniecpol
  Proceedings NSF Research Planning Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, June, 1996.