His research interests are in the area of large, distributed information systems, including such areas as distributed optimization and design, concurrent engineering, and digital libraries. Edmund H. Durfee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where he conducts research in multiagent systems, real-time intelligent control, and cooperative problem solving for applications ranging from interacting unmanned vehicles to supporting human collaboration. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1987, and was named a Presidential Young Investigator in 1991. Michael P. Wellman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning.
Current research focuses on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making.
In 1994, he received an NSF National Young Investigator award.