The Lab conducts research in the area of intelligent agents.
Intelligent agents are software components that are largely autonomous, proactive and collaborative.
One of the main activities is an agent platform that is built in Mozart and therefore inherits most of its properties such as distribution and constraint and logical inference. The platform supports the management of software agents, i.e. creation and registration of agents in a distributed environment. It also supports mediation of services between agents. The agent platform supports a number of interaction protocols that allows various types of negotiations between groups of agents, as well as interaction with external agents through XML formatted messages. Another activity is in the area of agent-based simulation, where a system under study is simulated using a very large number of simple agents, each having very simple rules of interaction.