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Dr. Brueckner is a Senior Research Scientist in the Emerging Markets Group at Vector Research Center (VRC), a Division of TTGSI. He has been active in the field of multi-agent system’s research for more than fifteen years. His doctoral thesis “Return from the Ant – Synthetic Ecosystems for Manufacturing Control” [pdf] researches the theoretical foundations of agent system design and applies its findings to complex manufacturing control systems. His research lays the foundation for VRC’s polyagent modeling approach included for instance in VRC's DARPA RAID, DTO CASE MASTER, or ONR STIFLE and OPEN architectures. The thesis was supported by Daimler-Chrysler Research & Technology (Berlin), ensuring problems with real-world relevance and scale were addressed.
After joining the VRC (then ERIM) in spring of 2000, Dr. Brueckner has been a technical lead on several agent-focused research and development efforts. He was the principal architect in the ADAPTIV project (DARPA JFACC) and DARPA WASP seedling study focusing on self-organizing UAV control, project manager and principal investigator in various NewVectors Internal Research and Development (IR&D) efforts including the DyProN project, leader of the CASANDRA project (DARPA IPTO KnowledgePlane) on self-organizing MANETs, contributing researcher in the STRONG project (DARPA RAID) that implemented the first full-scale polyagent model for behavioral emulation, and he developed an experimental framework for analyzing the dynamics of agent negotiating systems in the DARPA ANTs program. He also managed and spearheaded Altarum’s work package in the NIST/ATP DBDS project, which develops a novel decision support system for car body design.
Currently, Dr. Brueckner is a technical lead and project manager in the DTO CASE MASTER project after leading the DTO NIMD AntCAFE project. And he leads a NewVectors project in the ONR Counter-IED Basic Research program, extending the fundamental science of predictive polyagent systems.
Dr. Brueckner has authored over twenty papers on agent-based and complex systems’ theory and application and he is named inventor on four recent patents or preliminary patent filings.
Dr. Brueckner was awarded the Ph.D. (equivalent Doctor rer. nat.) by Humboldt University Berlin, Germany in Summer 2000.