Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems (IAMAS) Group

 

Computer Science and Engineering

University of Nebraska

122E Avery Hall

Lincoln, NE 68588-0115

TEL: (402) 472-6738  FAX: (402) 472-7767

E-mail:  lksoh@cse.unl.edu or iamas@cse.unl.edu

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The group is led by Professor Leen-Kiat Soh with a team of students (undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D.) who are interested in intelligent agents and multiagent systems.  This group was founded in 2002 and has graduated thus far 1 Ph.D. student, 12 M.S. students, and several undergraduate students.  Our research foci in this area include coalition formation, negotiation, human scaffolding, machine learning, and resource sharing.  Our work has its primary application in computer-aided education.

 

 

Publications

 

Current Members

      

Professor Leen-Kiat Soh

Nobel Khandaker (Ph.D. candidate)

Lee Dee Miller (Ph.D. candidate)

Adam Eck (UCARE student)

Kyle Dobitz (UCARE student)

 

Current Projects

I-MINDS (with Hong Jiang) (2002 – )

I-MINDS, LLC (with Hong Jiang, Art Zygielbaum) (2004 – )

Conference XP-Powered I-MINDS (with Hong Jiang) (2005 – )

Intelligent Learning Object Guide (iLOG) (with Ashok Samal, Gwen Nugent) (2007 – )

Intelligent Learning Materials Delivery Agent (ILMDA) (2003 – )

The Affinity Learning Project (with Dave Fowler) (2004 – )

 

Past Members

Improving Multi-Agent Coalition Formation in Complex Environments

Xin Li (Ph.D., May 2007)

A Flexible Framework for Knowledge Engineering and Automation of An Adaptive Conversational Case-Retrieval System

Jared Kite (M.S., June 2007)

ILMDA: An Intelligent Tutoring System with Integrated Learning

Todd Blank (M.S., November 2005)

Language Boundaries and Excess Programming Complexity

Eric Moss (M.S., August 2005)

I-MINDS: An Intelligent Multiagent System Supported Teaching and Cooperative Learning Environment

XueSong Zhang (M.S. December 2004)

Predator/Prey Domains: Analyzing Multiagent Communication in a Noisy Environment

Kye Halsted (M.S. December 2004)

An Intelligence Module for I-MINDS

Suresh Kumar Namala (M.S. November 2004)

A Multiagent Approach Using Ontology and Operational Learning to Improve Distributed Information Retrieval

Chao Chen (M.S. November 2004)

Relaxed Database Retrieval

Ashok Kumar Thirunavukkaras (M.S. May 2004)

Using Adaptive Agents to Create a Continuous Challenge in Computer Games

Jeremy Glasser (M.S. May 2004)

Operational Distributed Ontology Learning in a Multi-Agent System

JingFei Xu (M.S. July 2003)

Case-Based Learning Behavior in a Real Time Multi-Agent System

Juan Luo (M.S. May 2003)

Virtual Bluejay – A Data Mining Approach

Guanshan Yu (UCARE student)

Distribution Fitting and Outlier Detection in the Intelligent Learning Material Delivery Agent

Akira Endo (UCARE student)

Authoritative Citation KNN Learning with Noisy Data Sets

Joseph J. Bernadt (UCARE student)

 

Past Projects

Multiagent coalition formation in complex environments; negotiations; distributed sensor networks

DARPA ANTS PROGRAM: The Case-Based Reflective Negotiation Model Project (with Costas Tsatsoulis) (1999-2002)

(with Xin Li, Juan Luo) (2001-2007)

Intelligent online assistant for conducting interviews; conversational CBR

UNL Gallup Center ISASA (with Bob Belli, Jared Kite) (2004-2007)

Data mining; computer vision; machine learning

UNL Center for Avian Cognition Bluejay (with Alan Bond, Guanshan Yu) (2003-2006)

Strategic Cooperation in a Fox-and-Hounds Game; Large Team Playing

Multiagent Systems and Computer Games (with Kye Halsted, Jeremy Glasser) (2003-2004)

Multiagent Collaborative Conceptual Learning and Distributed Ontology

UNL Layman CUDO (ICHOIR) (with JingFei Xu, Chao Chen) (2002-2004)

 

The Multi-Agent Graphical Environment (MAGE) Project (with Costas Tsatsoulis, Huseyin Sevay) (1998)