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Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent Network Agents (RETSINA)
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.

The RETSINA multiagent infrastructure consists of a system of reusable agent types that can be adapted to address a variety of different domain-specific problems. Each RETSINA agent draws upon a sophisticated reasoning architecture that consists of four reusable modules for communication, planning, scheduling and execution monitoring.

A collection of RETSINA agents forms an open society of reusable entities that self-organize and cooperate in response to task requirements. We are currently applying this agent infrastructure to a number of domains, including information retrieval, team decision making, and financial portfolio management.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Joseph Andrew Giampapa - Project Manager <garof@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Sean R Owens - Research Programmer <owens@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Katia Sycara - Research Professor <katia@cs.cmu.edu>
• James D Thomas - PhD Student, CS <jthomas@cs.cmu.edu>

• 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.
• Aircraft Maintenance - A wearable software system that uses RETSINA agents to assist in the process of documenting and making repairs to aircraft.
• Electronic Commerce
• 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.
• Pleiades - A project aimed at developing methods for automating negotiation among agents and implementing effective machine learning techniques.
• 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.

• Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options
  C. Li, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California (USA), July, 2004, pp. 54--61. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [265 KB] copyrighted

• Uncertain Information Fusion for Force Aggregation and Classification in Airborne Sensor Networks
  B. Yu, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, and S.R. Owens
  AAAI-04 Workshop on Sensor Networks, AAAI Press, July, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [119 KB] copyrighted

• Securing Multi Agent Societies
  R. Singh and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [154 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

• A Review of Research Literature on Bilateral Negotiations
  C. Li, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [210 KB], ps.gz [97 KB] copyrighted

• 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

• An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases
  A. Steinfeld, R. Sanghi, J.A. Giampapa, D. Siewiorek, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-CS-03-190, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [160 KB], ps.gz [339 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

• Mechanisms for Coalition Formation and Cost Sharing in an Electronic Marketplace
  C. Li, S. Chawla, U. Rajan, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [157 KB], ps.gz [184 KB] copyrighted