Researchers at the Center are investigating multiagent systems, conceptual modeling, ontological engineering, distributed database systems, and computational intelligence, with applications to enterprise integration, industrial automation, executive decision support, and software development. The Center serves as a focal point for the University's research, public service, and education efforts in these important new areas of technology, providing well-qualified engineers and an educational and research capability that meets the needs of industry. The ultimate goal of D'Agents is to support applications that require the retrieval, organization and presentation of distributed information in arbitrary networks. D'Agents is used in several information-retrieval and workflow applications. FM is an electronic auction house, based on the traditional fish market, where agents of arbitrary complexity may trade over a reliable network under fair, robust and lively conditions.
Special focus is on the coordination of self-interested agents in open systems.
In recent years, the group has developed and applied machine learning and intelligent information agent technologies to a variety of real-world problems. Our major activities center around research and development of basic technologies and toolkits apt to support the realization of agent-based systems in modern telecommunications. The laboratory is directed by Profs. Roy Turner, Elise Turner, and Thomas Wagner. The goal of our work is the improvement of technolo gy surrounding hardware and software agents and the development of applications employing these technologies.