1. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Agent Technology Group Gerstner Laboratory in 2k2 h t t p : / / a g e n t s. f e l k. c v u t. c z /

2. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Gerstner Laboratory Czech Technical University –Faculty of Electrical Engineering Department of Cybernetics – 3 full prof., 5 assoc. prof, 10 assist. prof, 28 researchers, 47 PhD Miracle Center of Excellence –Gerstner Laboratory –Center for Machine Perception Gerstner Laboratory Research Divisions: –Mobile Robotics –Biocybernetics –Softcomputing –Machine Learning –Knowledge Based Systems –Software Engineering Testing and Verification –Agent Technology

3. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Agent Technology Group at GL Staff in 2k2: –Group Leader: Pechoucek Michal / Executive Sponsor and Chairman: Marik Vladimir –FT Researchers: Vokrinek Jiri, Novak Petr, Charvat Petr, Riha Ales, Barta Jaroslav –PT Researchers: Rollo Milan, Dobisek Michal, Hodik Jiri, Rada Rudolf, Jan Tozicka –Olga Stepankova, Jiri Lazansky, Tomas Vlcek, Marek Obitko, Filip Zelezny ( all Gerstner Laboratory ), Petr Slechta, Pavel Tichy, Pavel Vrba (all Rockwell Research Center), Petr Becvar, Jiri Pospisil (all CertiCon), Manuel Corteas ( University of Edinburgh ), Martyn Fletcher ( University of Cambridge ), Victor Mashkov ( Ukrainian Academy of Science ) –Collaborators: Jeff Bradshaw ( University of West Florida ) Pavel Drazan ( RIKS, Maastricht ) Duncan McFarlane ( University of Cambridge ) Andrew Lucas ( Agent Oriented Software ) Adamantios Koumpis ( Altec A.S.) A Min Tjoa ( Technical University of Vienna ) Roland Wagenr ( Johannes Keppler University of Linz ) Mihaela Ulieru ( University of Calgary ) Paul Valckenaers ( Katholic University of Lueven ) Ken Hall ( Rockwell Automation ) Northup Fowler, Barry McKinney, Lenny Popyack (all Air Force Research Laboratory ) Chris Reuters ( European Office of Aerospace Research and Development ) Howard Marsh, Garry Toth (both Office of Naval Research ) Rafael Yusupov ( SPIIRAS - St-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences ) George Klir, Victor Skormin ( State University of New York, Bingahmton)

4. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p ATG Organization The group is structured into three working groups: –intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS-WG) – basic and applied research in the filed of multi-agent system and distributed artificial intelligence in production planning, manufacturing simulation and control and supply chain management; supported primarily by industrial contracts and EC research and technology transfer grants –social knowledge and meta-reasoning (SKM-WG) – fundamental research in the area of acquaintance models, social knowledge, meta-agents and meta-reasoning in the domains of intelligent task decomposition, OOTW coalition formation, team action planning and community reconfiguration; supported primarily by Air Force Research Laboratory and Office of Naval Research contracts and research grants –integration and standards (IS-WG) – through collaboration with international consortia – FIPA, AgentCities, Holonic Manufacturing Systems we do research in the fields of agentification, open agent platforms, security and authentication; funded mainly by EC research and deployment grants and industrial contracts

5. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Projects Finished in 2k2 ExPlanTech (2000 – 2002) EC IST-Trial Project – Exploitation of Agent- Based Production Planning using the ProPlanT Technology, project no.: IST- 1999-20171, FIPA-compliant, build on top of JADE and FIPA-OS frameworks, extended to extra-enterprise context, integrated and tested in Liaz Pattern Shop (CZ) and Hatzapoulos (GR). CPlanT (2000 –2002) - US Air Force research contract - Acquaintance Models in Operations Other Than War Coalition Formation, project contract no.: F61775-00-WE043, social knowledge based approach to coalition formation and team-action planning, a FIPA-ACL compliant prototype (in Lisp) tested on Sufferterra hypothetical scenario. RSA – research consultancy for Rockwell Research Centre – US Navy (ONR) research project – investigating the concept of agents autonomy and reconfiguration in shipboard machinery control small internal projects: robocup rescue virtual enterprises trading models XSecurity

6. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Projects Running in 2k2 ExtraPLANT (EUTIST-AMI) - (2002 – 2003) – EUTIST-AMI (IST-2000- 28221) Trial Project – Extending the ProPlanT multi- agent technology for Extra- Enterprise and Enterprise-To-Enterprise production planning – aimed at supply chain management optimization and virtual enterprises reconfiguration MPA - Modular Plant Architecture - EC funded RTD project contract no. G1RD-2000- 00298 – Generalisation of the Modular Plant Architecture for multi- agent control and emulation for different production facilities – research consultancy for CertiCon a.s. MRinMAS (2002 – 2003) - US Air Force research contract – Meta-reasoning and Monitoring in the Multi-Agent Systems – design and implementation of a general architecture of the meta-agent, a meta-reasoning agent InX/MAS (2002 – 2003) - US Air Force research contract - Agents Inaccessibility in Multi-agent Systems

7. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Projects Running in 2k2 – cont. AgentCities.net – member of the project, responsible for implementing a FIPA- compliant platform – AgentExchange – containing the trading agents, bank agents and exchange agents ready for negotiating and auctioning experiments in an open trading environment MASinMAS – Meta-reasoning for Modeling and Simulation in Multi-Agent Systems, a research project funded by Office of Naval Research – project no.: N00014-03-1-0292 NASA Hydrogen Production – Software Agents and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Research for Complex System Safety, Health, and Process Monitoring - collaborative project with University of West Florida and Rockwell Automation Research Center

8. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p 6FP EOI Contribution 6FP EOI Networks of Excelence: –AgentLink III - An Expression of Interest for a Network of Excellence in Agent-Based Computing - Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK –CoordiNet - a Network of Excellence on Coordination Models, Languages, and Systems, Robert Tolksdorf, TU Berlin, D 6FP EOI Integarted projects: –OpenNET – follow-up of the agentcities project –MIDAS - MIDdleware and Agents for Smes, Massimo Busuoli, ENEA, Italy –HAMS - Holonic and Agent based Manufacturing Systems, Gerstner Laboratory –SUDOP - Smart User Driven Touristic Places, Th. Heistracher, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences –BEAM - Behaviour, Applicability and Benefits of Multi-Agent-Systems (BeAM), Torsten O. Paulussen, University of Bayreuth

9. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Events in 2k2 Conferences/Workshops (co-)organization: –HoloMAS 02 ( Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems ) – Provance –KSCO2002 (Knowledge Based Systems for Coalition Operation) - Toulouse –BASYS2002 (IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS In Manufacturing and Services ) - Cancun Events planned for 2k3: –CEEMAS’03 ( Central and Eastern Europe Multi-Agent Systems Conference ) – Prague –HoloMAS 03 (Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems) – Prague

10. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Publications in 2k2 1 edited book: Mařík, V. Štěpánková, O. Krautwurmová, H. Luck, M. (ed.) - Multi- Agent Systems and Applications II. Berlin : Springer, 2002. 375 p. 14 proceedings articles/book chapters 2 GL reports – several more to come this week 3 contributions to CTU posters – best poster award in the section 3 journal papers: –Pěchouček, M. Mařík, V. Bárta, J. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Coalition Formation. In: IEEE Intelligent Systems. 2002, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 17-25. –Pěchouček, M. Říha, A. Vokřínek, J. Mařík, V. Pražma, V. ExPlanTech: applying multi-agent systems in production planning. In: International Journal of Production Research. 2002, vol. 40, no. 15, p. 3681-3692. –Tate, A. Bradshaw, J. Pěchouček, M. Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. In: IEEE Intelligent Systems. 2002, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 14-16. 3 full SCI ext citations: –Kaminka GA, Pynadath DV, Tambe M: Monitoring teams by overhearing: A multi-agent plan-recognition approach journal of AI research 17: 83-135 –Flores RA, Kremer RC: To commit or not to commit: Modeling agent conversations for action: computational intelligence 18: (2) 120-173 2002 –Roddick JF, Spiliopoulou M: A survey of temporal knowledge discovery paradigms and methods ieee transactions on knowledge and data engineering 14: (4) 750-767 JUL-AUG 2002

11. A g e n t T e c h n o l o g y G r o u p Long Term Research Mission Research and investigation towards a cognitive multi-agent system architecture that will be based on a minimal interaction infrastructure and flexible and lightweight mandatory architecture of the individual agents. Such a system is expected to have the following properties: 1.Cognitive multi-agent system is a collection of autonomous, self-directed agents that rely on a minimal shared communication infrastructure and their dependence on any central coordination unit is brought to minimum (ideally there is not any). 2.The system is open in the sense that it allows integration of new agents (even if not designed primarily for operation within the respective multi-agent system) in both the run-time and design time of the multi-agent community. 3.Agents’ cognitive property is given by their capability to make autonomous social-oriented decision making and independently collect, maintain and exploit knowledge about the other agents (social knowledge). 4.Emergent behavior of the cognitive multi-agent system (given by properties in 1., 2. and 3.) is monitored, explained and influenced by one or a community of independent meta-agents that implement reflectivity of the entire system.