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Katia Sycara
Research Professor

Associated center: CIMDS

Email address: katia@cs.cmu.edu

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

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Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Robot Teams, game theoretic techniques, adversarial reasoning, machine learning, Case-Based Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Agents on the Internet, Information Fusion, Agents in e-commerce, Peer to Peer Systems, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and Grid Computing.

This section last updated - January 1999.

adversarial reasoning, artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning, design, game theory, human-computer interaction, information fusion, internet agents, multi-agent systems, peer to peer systems, planning, scheduling, and semantic web services

• 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 Storm - Agent Storm is a scenario where agents autonomously coordinate their team-oriented roles and actions while executing a mission.
• Agent-based Composition of Behavioral Models - This project focuses on accurately modeling human physical behaviors; these models are used 1) to create computer generated forces (CGFs) that exhibit human-like behavior and 2) to recognize physical behaviors performed by trainees in a MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) team training simulation.
• Aircraft Maintenance - A wearable software system that uses RETSINA agents to assist in the process of documenting and making repairs to aircraft.
• COALA - We are developing a model of inter-organizational electronic commerce.
• Cooperative Attack Munition Real Time Assessment - We are developing the algorithms required to achieve cohesive, flexible and robust coordination of large teams of autonomous Wide Area Search Munitions (WASMs) that can be controlled by a small number of human operators.
• 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.
• Electronic Commerce
• IBM ITA: Human-Agent Teamwork Models - We are developing models of human-agent teamwork for implementation in software agent systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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]
  Download: pdf [359 KB] copyrighted

• Semantic Web Services Monitoring: An OWL-S based Approach
  R. Vaculin and K. Sycara
  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, January, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [304 KB] copyrighted

• Specifying and Monitoring Composite Events for Semantic Web Services
  R. Vaculin and K. Sycara
  The 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, IEEE Computer Society, November, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [338 KB] copyrighted

• Efficient Plan Recognition for Dynamic Multi-agent Teams
  G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara
  Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference, October, 2007. [Abstract]

• 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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• Towards automatic mediation of OWL-S process models
  R. Vaculin and K. Sycara
  2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, IEEE Computer Society, July, 2007, pp. 1032-1039. [Abstract]
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• Monitoring execution of OWL-S web services
  R. Vaculin and K. Sycara
  Proceedings of OWL-S: Experiences and Directions Workshop, European Semantic Web Conference, June, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Policy Recognition for Multi-Player Tactical Scenarios
  G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara
  Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Literature Review of Teamwork Models
  K. Sycara and G. Sukthankar
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2006. [Abstract]
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• On the Beaten Path: Exploitation of Entities Interactions For Predicting Potential Link
  Y. Seo and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006. [Abstract]
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