The Multiagent Systems Research Group, under the direction of Assistant Professor Tuomas Sandholm, is concerned with designing, analyzing and implementing sophisticated AI systems consisting of multiple agents.
Special focus is on the coordination of self-interested agents in open systems.
In this endeavor, we use techniques from game theory and other fields of microeconomics, and we extend those theories with normative models of bounded rationality, such as limited computation and communication. This work has also led us to develop new techniques for single agent resource-bounded reasoning, constraint satisfaction, and machine learning. This includes the ability to coordinate action with the actions of the other agents, intelligently communicate with them, flexibly model them, update these models in view of their observed actions, and to do all of this in a reasonable amount of time. This group is a part of CSE Department, University of Texas at Arlington. 5 - The Software Agents Group of the MIT Media Laboratory investigates computer systems to which one can delegate tasks.