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Agentlab

The Intelligent Agent Laboratory (Agentlab) is an active research group in the Departments of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, at the University of Melbourne.

Agile mine scheduling through contingent planning (Making the Pilbara Blend)


Photo courtesy of Rio Tinto Iron Ore Pty. Ltd.

Agile mine scheduling project description

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE)

Intelligent Information Systems

Automated planning languages (MIndiGolog & CollabLP)

Models of interaction & context-aware applications

Transaction-oriented multi-agent systems

Research Centre Participation

The Agentlab has active research programs within the following research centres at the University.

The Optimisation group of Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA), within the Victoria Research Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.

The Intelligent Information Systems theme of the The Defence Science Institute and the Natural Disaster Managment Research Initiative.

The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society at the University of Melbourne.

Software

  • MIndiGolog: A multi-agent, concurrent programming and planning language based on the situation calculus.
  • G12: A constraint programming platform.
  • REBEL Version 1.1.0: A tool for the
  • ROADMAP agent-oriented software engineering methodology.
  • CollabLP: A multi-agent collaborative logic programming language.
  • NOSA: A standards-compliant sensor-network middleware.
  • HAVE & CTF: human-agent virtual environment and capture-the-flag multi-agent simulations.

  • MIT Press Books - by Agentlab Members

    Leon Sterling and Kuldar Taveter, The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling, The MIT Press, 2009

    Kim Marriott and Peter Stuckey, Programming with Constraints , The MIT Press, 1998

    Sterling, L. and Shapiro, E., The Art of Prolog, 2nd Edition, MIT Press, 1994

    Agent-related subjects

    COMP90054 Software Agents

    COMP90046 Constraint Programming

    COMP90048 Declarative Programming

    COMP90053 Program Analysis and Transformation

    COMP90045 Programming Language Implementation

    COMP90051 Statistical and Evolutionary Learning

    COMP30021 Theoretical Computer Science

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    2 New Research Fellow Positions Open - Supply Chain Optimisation & Automated Planning and Scheduling

    The University of Melbourne is recruiting two (additional) Senior Research Fellows/Research Fellows in the areas of supply chain optimisation and automated planning and scheduling, see here.

    PhD Scholarships Available

    PhD applicants invited to apply for 2012/13 - the agentlab presently has a range of exciting research opportunities for graduates to do their thesis in the area of intelligent agents - funded by APA, APAI, Melbourne University scholarships and NICTA top-up scholarships and DSI (STRAPA) scholarhips, please contact Adrian Pearce for more information if you are interested in applying.

    Future postgraduates (applications invited)

    Applications for PhD or Masters by research, funding is availble via competitively awarded scholarships.

    Publications

  • Publications
  • Index

  • People

  • Academic (Faculty)
  • Postgraduates (PhD candidates)

  • Seminars

  • Agents-Vic (Google group)

  • Recent Conference participation

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), Beijing, August 3-9, 2013
  • International Conference on the Princoples of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012), Rome, June 10-13, 2012
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), Valencia, June 4-8, 2012
  • The International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2011), Perugia, 12-16 September, 2011
  • The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-11, San Francisco, August 7-11, 2011
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), Barcelona, July 16-22, 2011
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), Taipei, May 2-6, 2011

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