# Presentation: 517677

## Intelligent Software Agent Technology 

**Dr. Thomas E. Potok**
**Collaborative Technologies Group Leader**
**Computer Science and Mathematics Division**
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory**

**Notes:**
Audience: Joint Strike Fighter engineers and designers, 
Interested  in our technology to 
help them win the JSF contract
help them meet their current commitments
Message:
CTRC is successful and prosperous
We are pioneering in hot technologies
We can help you LM win the JSF contract
Desired Result:
Immediate funding 
Included in JSF proposal
Additional contacts
Main Points:
Lean cell design and analysis using autonomous intelligent software agents
Spare part grouping and manufacturing optimization using autonomous intelligent software agents
Spare part demand forecasting using neural networks and genetic algorithms
Financial Forecasting and Heterogeneous Information Integration
Agent-based Supply Chain Health Monitoring and Alerting System

## Agent Technology Trend

**Tim Berners-Lee – “The Semantic Web... will open up the knowledge and workings of humankind to meaningful analysis by software agents, providing a new class of tools by which we can live, work and learn together”**
**“****The Semantic Web” *****Scientific American***** 5/2001**

## Successful Projects

- Knowledge-based Computer Systems Calibration

- Knowledge-based Systems for Constructability

- Neural Nets for Material Mix Optimization

- Knowledge-based Systems - Manufacturing Advisors

- Neural Nets for Spring-back Prediction

- Neural Nets for Resistance. Spot Welding

- Neural Nets for Recovery Boiler Control

- Neural Nets for Bankruptcy  Prediction

- Collaborative Decision Support System

- Genetic Algorithms for Chemical Synthesis

- Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments

- Collaborative Design System

- Manufacturing Emulation Agent System

- Supply Chain Management Agent System

- We have extensive expertise in agent development
- Began working with agent technologies in 1980s

- Over 10 successful projects within the last 5 years
- Collaborations with leading agent experts

- 1985

- 1990

- 1995

- 2000

**VIPAR Knowledge Discovery**

## 2001 Papers

| Authors | Title | Publication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Samatova, Potok, 
Leuze | Vector Space Model for the Generalized Part Families Formation | Robotics and Computer Aided Manufacturing, Vol. 17, pp. 73-80, 2001. |
| Potok, Elmore, 
Reed, Samatova,
Ivezic | VIPAR: Advanced Information Agents discovering knowledge in an open and changing environment | Fifth International Workshop CIA-2001 on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS, submitted for publication |
| Potok, Elmore, 
Reed, Samatova | An Ontology-based HTML to XML Conversion using Intelligent Agents | The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, submitted for publication
  |
| Reed, Potok, 
Samatova, Elmore | Dynamic Cluster Analysis for Scalable Data Mining | The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, submitted for publication |
| Potok, Ivezic, 
Samatova | Agent-based architecture for flexible lean cell design, analysis, and evaluation | Proceedings of the 4th Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing Conference, 2001. |

## 2001 DOE Main Proposals

| Proposal Title | Principal Investigators |
| --- | --- |
| Scientific Data Management Enabling Technology Center | Shoshani (LBNL), Gropp (ANL), Critchlow (LLNL), Potok (ORNL), Pu (GT), Vouk (NCSU), Choudhary (NWU), and Gupta (SDSC)  |
| Scalable Clustering and Feature Extraction from Massive High-Dimensional Distributed Scientific Data | Potok, Samatova, and Ostrouchov |
| Scalable in Silico Integrative Analysis of Metabolic Networks by Uncovering Simplicity from Complexity | Samatova 
 |
| Modeling and Simulation of Protein-Protein Interactions Using High Performance Computing and Experimental Data | Xu  (LSD)
 |

## Simple Agent Example

- Agent,
- find me the book
- “War and Peace,”
- and I need it
- tomorrow

- Does the
- agent understand
- buying books?

- Form a plan
- to buy the
- book

- Execute the
- plan

***Amazon***

***Barnes and***
***Nobel***

***B. Dalton***

***Library***

**2 Days**
**$18.50**

**1 Day **
**$21.75**

**1 Day **
**$20.25**

**1 Day **
**Free**

***eBay***

**1 Day **
**$12.50**

- Agent
- Communities

- Dedicated
- Agents

## Use of Intelligent Agents at US Pacific Command   VIPAR

## USPACOM Traditional Approach

** ****Analysts Search 20-30 papers a day**
** ****Manually find the articles on internet**
** ****Manually organizing the articles**

- Inside China

- Russia Today

- Jakarta Post

- NEA

- SEA

- Oceania

**Unorganized**
**Newspaper**
** ****Articles**

**Analysts**

**Organized**
**Results**

## New Intelligent Agent Approach

- Inside China

- Russia Today

- Jakarta Post

**Retrieval**
**Agents**

**Vector Perturbation**
**Clustering**

**“****Knowledge**
**Bins”**

- Economy

- Military

- Political

**Analysts**

**Intelligent Agent**

## VIPAR Architecture

*Download Agent*

*Download Agent*

*Download Agent*

*Download Agent*

*Download Agent*

- ...

*Whiteboard Agent*

*Text Analysis*
* **Agent*

*Cluster Agent*

## Clustering: A Simple Example

**2. Terms Dictionary**

**1. Original and Parsed Documents**

**7. Phylips tree representation**

**3. Vector Space Model**

**4. Document Similarity**

**6. Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering**

- Agglomerative

- Divisive

- 1

- 2

- 3

- 4

- 6

- 7

- 8

**5. Euclidean Distance**

## VIPAR Example “Nuclear Weapons” Search - 9/21/2000

- Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights
- Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security
- India and Pakistan: Troubled relations
- U.S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road
- Troops die in Kashmir clashes
- Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive
- IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative
- China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials
- Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case
- Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee

## Manual Knowledge Management “Business as Usual”

**Wen Ho Lee**
**Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights **
**Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case**
**Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive **
**Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee**
**Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security**
**India and Pakistan**
**India and Pakistan: Troubled relations**
**Troops die in Kashmir clashes**
**IAEA Meeting****	**
**IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative **
**China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials**
**U.S. China Trade**
**U.S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road **

## VIPAR Knowledge Management Same result, easier to “see”

- Wen Ho Lee
- Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights
- Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case
- Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive
- Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee
- Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security
- India and Pakistan
- India and Pakistan: Troubled relations
- Troops die in Kashmir clashes
- IAEA Meeting
- IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative
- China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials
- U.S. China Trade
- U.S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road

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- 2

- 3

- 4

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- 6

- 7

- 8

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- 10

- Wen Ho Lee

- India/Pakistan

- IAEA Meeting

- US China Trade

## VIPAR Knowledge Discovery  Search on “Bin Laden” on 1/9/2001

**Yemen bomb suspects held **
**The Yemeni authorities say they have arrested several Islamic militants in connection with the bombing of a US warship in which 17 sailors died.**
_**Discovered Articles**_
**Attractive base for anti-West Islamists**
**For impoverished, underdeveloped Yemen, political violence is like a disease that won't go away.**
**Cohen seeks review of Cole probe **
**Defense Secretary William Cohen plans to order a new review to determine if commanders in the Gulf region should be held accountable ...**
**US reopens Rome embassy **
**The United States has reopened its Rome embassy which was closed since Friday following a world-wide caution against possible threats.**
**Pakistan warns of Afghan exodus**
**50,000 Afghans have arrived in Pakistan this year alone**** **

## Endorsements

**US Pacific Command’s CINC Admiral Blair**
**“****A tremendously successful project”**
**“****Software agents ... lead to substantially improved analytical products.”**
**US Pacific Command’s Science and Technology Advisor**
**“****hit a grand slam home run!”**
**“****first time we've seen information discovery and knowledge management software working here at HQ USCINCPAC operationally.”**

## VIPAR is only one of our projects

- Knowledge-based Computer Systems Calibration

- Knowledge-based Systems for Constructability

- Neural Nets for Material Mix Optimization

- Knowledge-based Systems - Manufacturing Advisors

- Neural Nets for Spring-back Prediction

- Neural Nets for Resistance. Spot Welding

- Neural Nets for Recovery Boiler Control

- Neural Nets for Bankruptcy  Prediction

- Collaborative Decision Support System

- Genetic Algorithms for Chemical Synthesis

- Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments

- Collaborative Design System

- Manufacturing Emulation Agent System

- Supply Chain Management Agent System

- We have extensive expertise in agent development
- Began working with agent technologies in 1980s

- Over 10 successful projects within the last 5 years
- Collaborations with leading agent experts

- 1985

- 1990

- 1995

- 2000

**VIPAR Knowledge Discovery**

## Summary

**Intelligent agents are a significant future technology direction**
**We have a significant progression of deployed agent systems and research to our credit**
**We have ringing endorsements regarding the success of our systems and research**
**We look forward to the next step...**