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Pleiades Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Lori R Price (lrprice@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - October 2005.

Project Description

The PLEIADES Project has two overriding goals: 1) to develop distributed agent-based architectures that are composed of negotiating and learning agents, and 2) to apply these architectures to everyday activity management and information problems. To meet these goals, we have developed a number of software agent systems, including agents for managing personal calendars, web agents that provide guided tours of websites, and a visitor hosting agent system that manages the process of connecting faculty members with campus visitors who share similar interests.

Our approach is committed to developing machine learning methods that will endow personal software agents with the ability to customize automatically to the needs of their users.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Sean R Owens	Research Programmer	owens@cs.cmu.edu
	Katia Sycara	Research Professor	katia@cs.cmu.edu

Past Sub-projects

Thales - Satellite visibility forecaster

Publications

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

• Evaluation Criteria for the MORSE Simulation Environment
  J.A. Giampapa, S.L. Esch, B.E. John, R. Singh, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [49 KB], ps.gz [23 KB] copyrighted

• The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure
  K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, M. Van Velsen, and J.A. Giampapa
  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1/2, July, 2003, pp. 29--48. [Abstract]

• The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study
  K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, B.K. Langley, and M. Paolucci
  Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena, Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omici, Jaelson Castro, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. LNCS 2603, July, 2003, pp. 232--250. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [270 KB], ps.gz [181 KB] copyrighted

• Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination
  J.A. Giampapa and K. Sycara
  Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2001, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 2080, July, 2001, pp. 189--203. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [197 KB], ps.gz [90 KB] copyrighted

• Configuration Management for Multi-Agent Systems
  J.A. Giampapa, O.H. Juarez-Espinosa, and K. Sycara
  The 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036, USA, June, 2001, pp. 230-231. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [68 KB], ps.gz [45 KB] copyrighted