Groups, Laboratories, Research Centres

• MIT software agents group

• the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory

  • Head: Prof. Victor Lesser
  • University: Univ. Massachusetts, Amhearst, USA

• OFIA Agent group

  • Agent group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

• MAGMA

  • The goals of the MAGMA group (Modelling Autonomous aGents in a Multi-Agent world) are the development of theoretical studies and tools for the simulation of multi-agent systems and the distributed solving of problems, in the perspective of the understanding and the integration of complex systems.

• Intelligent Agents Group (IAG)

  • Tinity College, Dublin.
• DAI group at Hebrew University
• Distributed Systems Group at Computer Science / Hamburg University

• The Learning Agents Laboratory (LA Lab)

  • George Mason University

• The Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory

  • at the University of Massachusetts

• WITAS

  • the Wallenberg laboratory for research on Information Technology and Autonomous Systems

• Communicating Agents Research Group

  • at Imperial College, London
• UIUC Open Systems Laboratory
• --- other (related to agents)

• the CMU HCII

  • Human-Computer Interaction Institute
• The Logic Group (Stanford)
• Center for Design Research, Stanford

• Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford

  • Current work focuses on knowledge representation for sharable engineering knowledge bases and systems, computational environments for modelling physical devices, architectures for adaptive intelligent systems, and expert systems for science and engineering.
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-Lab

• AI Simulation Research Group

  • at the University of Arizona

• Interactive Information Group

  • The mission of the II Group is to conduct research and develop tools for interactive access to information. Their focus is on improving the process through which a user identifies information sources and interacts with them to answer a particular information need. The II Group will concentrate on methods to discover, digest, summarize, organize, search, and share information.
• --- obsolete?

• The Agent Institute

  • at the University of Maine
• AI Lab of the University of Chicago
• Universite de Savoie
• QMW DAI Unit

• Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute

  • the papers

Corporate Labs

• BT

• IBM

  • Intelligent Agents Project at IBM T.J. Watson Research

  • IBM Massively Distributed Systems

    • IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center
    • Includes some work on agent and security

• User Interface

  • from Microsoft research
• HP Agent Technology Group
• --- obsolete?

• AMSCAT

  • AMS Center for Advanced Technologies.

• Center for Strategic Technology Research(R)

  • Andersen Consulting
  • Intelligent Agents Research

• EIT

  • Enterprise Integration Technologies

Organizations, networks

• AgentLink

  • Europe's ESPRIT-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based computing.

• FIPA

  • Foundaton for Intelligent Physical Agents.
  • The basic objective of FIPA is standardization of agent technology.

• Collège Systèmes Multi-Agents

  • Le collège SMA a pour mission de favoriser l'échange scientifique au sein de la communauté française travaillant dans le domaine des systèmes multi-agents (SMA), d'offrir un portail ouvert sur toutes les activités de ce domaine de recherche en plein essor et de soutenir les différents événements scientifiques dans le domaine des SMA qui se déroulent en France (conférences, ateliers, groupes de travail, etc.).

• Oasis

  • Objets et Agents pour Systèmes d'Information et de Simulation
  • OASIS est un thème interdisciplinaire qui se veut au croisement de l'intelligence artificielle, du génie logiciel et de l'informatique répartie.

• AFIA

  • Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle

• European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces

  • i3, the European initiative for intelligent information interfaces, was created in 1997 in order to take a human-centred approach to the exploration of new, visionary interactive systems for people in their everyday activities.
• --- obsolete?

• The Agent Society

  • The Agent Society is an international industry and professional organization established to assist in the widespread development and emergence of intelligent agent technologies and markets. It's members consist of leading companies and institutions in the agent field, working together under a non-profit organization aegis.

People working on agents

• Agentlink Agent People Finder
• ---

• Nick Jennings

  • University of Southampton, UK
  • He has pioneer the use of agent-based techniques for real-world application.
• Matthias Klusch
• Henry Lieberman

• Stan Franklin

  • Univ. of Memphis
• Sandip Sen

• Aaron Sloman

  • Note: Has worked intensivly on the Poplog system.

• Peter Stone

  • autonomous bidding agents, etc.

• Adam Maria Gadomski

  • TOGA (Top-down Object-based Goal-oriented Approach) socio-cognitive engineering theory
  • ENEA
• Philippe Morignot

• Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn

  • Her research goals are the investigation of social intelligence and individual interactions in groups of autonomous agents, including humans and other animals, software agents and robots.

• Denis Caromel

  • Active objects, object concurency, etc.

• Gul Agha

  • Actors languages
• Jacques Ferber

• Sverker Janson

  • from the Swedish Institute of Computer Science

• Joseph Bates

  • Believable agents
• --- obsolete (the links, not neccessarily the people!)
• Bruce Krulwich

• Steven C. Laufmann

  • U S WEST Advanced Technologies
• Marc Belgrave
• Enrique David Espinosa
• M. Fox
• T.J. Norman

• Patrick Studdard

  • It includes Patrick's MS thesis "Representing Human Emotions in Intelligent Agents".

• A. S. Rao

  • the BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) model.

• Jim Hofmann

  • Naval Research Lab

• Jean-Paul Barthès

  • at Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Companies working on agents

• Tryllian

  • Tryllian B.V. is an Internet technology company focused on the development of mobile agents.
• Broadcatch Technologies.
• Technowledge
• --- obsolete
• FTP Software
• see also the next section.