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H. Van Dyke Parunak ("Van") |
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Technical Interests
Seatlh's Law: "All Things Are Connected."
Click here for abstracts of available papers and links to PDF or Postscript versions, here for a collection of articles describing systems we have built and how we have built them, and here for slides from selected presentations.
- Software Engineering for Agents
- Agent-Based Software Architectures for Real World Applications
- Agent-Based Design and Distributed Constraint Optimization
- Agent-Based Modeling
- Digital Pheromones
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
- Applications of Linguistics to Manufacturing Control
- Hypertext
- Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Commerce
Current Major Projects:
- CASE MASTER (Model Adaptation and Swarming for Topological Environmental Reasoning), under the DTO CASE program, using stigmergic and machine learning methods to model and reason over human activities
- STRONG ARM (Synergetic Tactical Reasoners Offering Near-term Guidance: Adversarial Reasoning Module) under the DARPA RAID program, using multiple reasoning methods (statistical, symbolic, swarming) to predict the course of an urban battle
- DARPA ACIP (Architectures for Cognitive Information Processing), exploring how different cognitive models can be hybridized in a single architecture
- STIFLE (Stigmergic Tracking of IED Factories, Locations, and Events), under the ONR CIED program, expanding the polyagent technology with concepts from quantum mechanics in the context of IED prediction
Past Notable Projects:
- Ant CAFE (Composite Adaptive Fitness Evaluation), under the ARDA NIMD program, using multiple stigmergic methods to manage very large corpora of documents
- LEN, under the DARPA WASP seedling, using swarming mechanisms to coordinate multiple UAV's in a multi-role cooperative sensing application.
- CASANDRA, under the DARPA KP seedling, applying complex adaptive systems to problems of computer networking.
- ReAgent, under the DARPA NA3TIVE seedling, demonstrating the ability to hybridize swarming agents with conventional cognitive agents in the same system.
- Agents Overcoming Resource-Independent Scaling Threats, under the DARPA ANT program, using chaos theory to detect and manage anomalous behavior in agent-based systems.
- Adaptive control of Distributed Agents through Pheromone Techniques and Interactive Visualization (ADAPTIV), under the DARPA JFACC program, exploring the use of pheromone methods to control military air operations.
- Autonomous Agents for Rock Island Arsenal (AARIA ): An industrial-strength agent-based shop-floor scheduling and control system, sponsored by the ARPA Agile program.
- Information and Control Integration for projects under NIST's Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Technology (MVMT) ATP
- Shop-Floor Agents (SFA): A broad study of potential applications, sponsored by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.
- Responsible Agents for Product-Process Integrated Development (RAPPID), sponsored by the ARPA MADE program.
- Dynamic Analysis of Supply Chains (DASCh), sponsored by ARPA.
Many of these activities contribute in one way or another to the broader business problem of Supply Chain Engineering.