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Electronic Institution for agent-based B2B inter-Operability

Research in the context of this issue aims at developing an Electronic Institution for safe and trustable agent-based business operations. This objective includes the development of appropriate models for B2B Negotiation and Monitoring processes as well as to provide platforms, tools and frameworks enabling Agents’ interoperability in the context of Virtual Enterprises Life Cycle.

Agents’ Adaptation, Learning and Emotions

Agents’ intelligent processes mostly rely on learning capabilities and sophisticated architectures. Through this research line we aim at studying both agent and multi-agent learning on one hand, and emotion-like features driven architectures, on the other hand.

Multi-Agent teams’ coordination and simulation

Coordinating teams of autonomous (or semi-autonomous) agents that perform in rich, dynamic, both cooperative and adversarial environments is a major aim of this work line. For this objective, we are exploring several research directions that can be seen as complementary: new coordination protocols; methodologies for analyzing team behavior; implementation of agent-based common framework suitable for controlling teams of cooperative robots for robosoccer; design of realistic multi-agent simulators (Coastal Ecosystems Simulator); generalizating these methods to other domains.

Multi-agent Systems applications and Intelligent Text Mining

Two years ago we have started a new line of research related to Natural Language processing and Text Mining. This work includes a partnership with the Linguateca Project. Moreover we also aim at applying agent and multi-agent architectures, negotiation protocols and learning algorithms to specific application domains.

Awards

A list of selected awards of the NIAD&R group

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A brief description of ongoing NIAD&R research projects

ACORD - Adaptative Coordination of Robotic Teams

This project aims at developing coordination and communication methodologies to enable teams of heterogeneous robots, with different skills, and made by different manufacturers, to accomplish complex collective tasks, with emphasis on playing robosoccer games.

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