Ana Lúcia C. Bazzan
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Anna Akhmatova by Nathan Altman (1916)

Short Vitae

I received my PhD in Computer Science in 1997 from the Informatik Fakultät at the Univ. of Karlsruhe (IPR institute), in Karlsruhe, Germany, supported by the Brazilian government (CNPq).

From 1992 to 1996, I was a research associate at the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) in the Technical Expert Systems and Robotics (now MMR ) group, working on a tool for Modelling and Simulation of Urban Traffic. My previous degrees are in Engineering from the Politechnic School (POLI) of the Univ. of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, and MSc. in Computer Science from the Institute of Informatics at the Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre.

From 1997 to 1998, I had a postdoc research associate position in the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, under supervision of Prof. Victor Lesser. There, I was involved in the research project "Enhancing Survivability with Distributed Coordination" (part of DARPA/ITO's Information Survivability program) on Survavibility, Intrusion Detection, and Diagnosis.

In 1999 I joined the Institute of Informatics here at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) as an Assistent Professor. In 2007 I became an Associated Professor. Our research group is mainly concerned with Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems (please take a look at our page). Our ongoing projects include Coordination of Agents, Artificial Life, Distance Learning, BDI (Beliefs, Desire, Intentions) Formalisms, among others.

My own research interests also include: Use of Game-Theoretic Paradigms for Coordination of Agents (Minority Game, Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, Public Goods Game, Congestion Games, etc.), Learning in MAS, Agent-based Simulation, Artificial Societies, Complex Systems, Bioinformatics, Traffic Simulation and Control, Pedestrian Simulation, Swarm Intelligence, and Diagnosis.

From April 2006 to March 2007 I had an appointment at the University of Würzburg (Germany), in the Lehrstühl VI of Prof. F. Puppe, as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.



Professional Activities


Publications

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Selected publications 


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JOURNALS:

BOOK CHAPTERS AND EDITED BOOKS:

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. . IA Multiagente: Mais Inteligência, Mais Desafios. In: Wagner Meira Jr. ; Andre C. P. L. F. de Carvalho. (Org.). Jornadas de Atualizacao em Informatica (JAI). Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio, 2010, v. , p. 111-160.

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. (Org.) ; KLUEGL, F. (Org.) .
    Multi-Agent Architectures for Traffic and Transportation Engineering. 2009.

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. (Org.) ; KLUEGL, F. (Org.) ; OSSOWSKI, S. (Org.) .
    Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation. IFAAMAS, 2008. v. 1. 136 p.

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. (Org.) ; CRAVEN, M. (Org.) ; MARTINS, N. F. (Org.) .
    Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Heidelberg: Springer, 2008. v. 1. 183 p.

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. (Org.) ; KLUEGL, F. (Org.) ; OSSOWSKI, S. (Org.) .
    Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation. , 2006. v. 1. 92 p.

  • KLUEGL, F. (Org.) ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. (Org.) ; OSSOWSKI, S. (Org.) .
    Applications of Agent Technology in Traffic and Transportation. 1. ed. Basel: Birkhaeuser, 2005. v. 1. 209 p.

  • KLUEGL, F. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. .
    Route Decision Behaviour in a Commuting Scenario: Simple Heuristics Adaptation. In: Schreckenberg, M. ; R. Selten. (Org.). Human Behaviour and Traffic Networks. Heildelberg: Springer, 2004, v. , p. 285-304.

  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; BORDINI, R. ; CAMPBELL, J. .
    Evolution of Agents with Moral Sentiments in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Exercise. In: Parsons, Simon and Gmytrasiewicz, Piotr; Wooldridge, Michael. (Org.). Game Theory and Decision Theory in Agent-Based Systems. kluwer: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002

  • WAHLE, J. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; KLUEGL, F. ; SCHRECKENBERG, M. .
    Anticipatory Traffic Forecast using Multi-Agent Techniques. In: Dirk Helbing; Hans J. Herrmann; Michael Schreckenberg; Dietrich E. Wolf. (Org.). Traffic and Granular Flow '99: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics. Berlin: Springer, 2000, v. , p. 89-92

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCES:

  • SANTOS, F.  ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. . Ant Based Multiagent Algorithm for Task Allocation in Large Scale and Dynamic Scenarios. In: GECCO, 2009, Montreal. Proceedings of the GECCO 2009, 2009.
  • SANTOS, D. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. .  A biologically-inspired distributed clustering algorithm. In: Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (2009 Mar. : Nashville, TN), p. 160-167.
  • JUNGES, R. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. . Evaluating the Performance of DCOP Algorithms in a Real World, Dynamic Problem. In: Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2008, Estoril. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2008. v. 2. p. 599-606.
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; KLUEGL, F. . Re-Routing Agents in an Abstract Traffic Scenario. In: SBIA, 2008, Salvador. Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence, 2008. v. 5249, p. 63-72.
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C.   Traffic as a Complex System: Four Challenges for Computer Science and Engineering. In: XXXIV SEMISH, 2007, Rio de Janeiro. v. 1. p. 2128-2142. (download here)
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; KLUEGL, F. ; Kai Nagel . Adaptation in Games with Many Co-evolving Agents. In: EPIA, 2007, Guimarães. Proceeding of the EPIA 2007. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer, 2007. v. 4874. p. 195-206.
  • SILVA, B. C. DA ; BASSO, E. W. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; ENGEL, P. M. . Dealing with Non-Stationary Environments using Context Detection. In: 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006), 2006, Pittsburgh. Proc. of the, 2006. p. 217-224.
  • OLIVEIRA, D. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; LESSER, V. Using Cooperative Mediation to Coordinate Traffic Lights: a Case Study. In: Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, 2005, Utrecht. Proc. of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. New York : ACM, 2005. v. 1. (download here)
  • SILVA, R. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. ; BARAVIERA, A. ; DAHMEN, S. R. . Emerging Collective Behavior in a Simple Artificial Financial Market. In: Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, 2005, Utrecht. Proc. of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. New York : ACM, 2005. v. 1.
  • SANTOS, C. T. ; BAZZAN, A. L. C. . Integrating Knowledge through Cooperative Negotiation -- A Case Study in Bioinformatics. In: Int. Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Agents: Agents and Data Mining, 2005, St. Petersburg. LNAI 3505 (Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Agents: Agents and Data Mining), 2005. v. 3505. p. 277-288. (download here)
  • OLIVEIRA, D., FERREIRA JR., P. R., BAZZAN, A. L. C., KLUEGL, F. A Swarm-based Approach for Selection of Signal Plans in Urban Scenarios. In: IV International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004), 2004, Brussels. Proc of the IV International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. (download here)
  • KLUEGL, F., BAZZAN, A. L. C. A Case Study On The Role Of Information For Implicit Coordination. In: Third Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004, (ext. abstr. available here).
  • OLIVEIRA, D., FERREIRA JR., P. R., BAZZAN, A. L. C. A Swarm Based Approach for Task Allocation in Dynamic Agents Organizations. In: Third Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004, (ext. abstr. available here).
  • ALMEIDA, L. B., SILVA, B. C., BAZZAN, A. L. C.  Towards a physiological model of emotions: first steps. In: AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations, 2004, Palo Alto. Proc. of the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series. AAAI, 2004. (download available here)
  • KLUEGL, F., BAZZAN, A. L. C., WAHLE, J. Selection of Information Types Based on Personal Utility - a Testbed for Traffic Information Markets In: Second Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2003), 2003, Melbourne.
  • BORDINI, R., BAZZAN, A. L. C., JANNONE, R., BASSO, D., VICCARI, R., LESSER, V.   Agent-Speak (XL): Efficient Intention selection in BDI agents via Decision-Theoretic Task Scheduling In:   First Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002), 2002, Bologna, Italy. New York: ACM, 2002.  V. 3, p. 1294-1302. (Download available here)
  • KLUEGL, F., BAZZAN, A. L. C.    Simulation of Adaptive Agents: Learning Heuristics for Route Choice in a Commuter Scenario In: First   Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002), 2002, Bologna, Itália. (download here)
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C., LINDEMANN, V., LESSER, V.    A Domain-Independent Diagnosis Tool to Adapt Organizations in Learning Scenarios In: First Int. Joint  Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002), 2002, Bologna.
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C., BORDINI, R.   A Framework for the Simulation of Agent with Emotions: Report on Experiments with the Iterated Prisoner`s Dilemma In: The 5th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2001, Montreal, 2001. New York : ACM. 2001.  p. 292-299. (Please go to the project's page for details and downloads)
  • Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor, Vincent, Regis, Bazzan, Ana, and Xuan, Ping.   Diagnosis as an Integral Part of  Multi-Agent Adaptability [PS] [HTML] . In Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (see also UMASS CSTR 1999-03), pp. 211-219, Hilton Head, South Carolina, January, 2000, IEEE Computer Society. 
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C., BORDINI, R.H., ANDRIOTTI, G. K., VICCARI, R., WAHLE, J.   Wayward Agents in a Commuting Scenario (Personalities in the Minority Game). In Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'2000), Boston, July 7-12.  Los Alamitos : IEEE Computer Society, 2000.  p. 55-62 . (Please go to the project's page for details and downloads)
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C., BORDINI, R., CAMPBELL, J.   Moral Sentiments in Multi-Agent Systems. In: Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL 98). Paris, 1998. Also appeared in: Intelligent Agents V (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1555). Springer-Verlag, 1999. (Please go to the project's page for details and downloads)
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C., WAHLE, J., KLUEGL, F.   Agents in Traffic Modelling - from Reactive to Social Behaviour. [pdf] In: KI'99 (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence). Published as Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1701). Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer, 1999. Also appeared in Proc. of the U.K. Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS´99), Bristol, UK.
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C.   Evolution of Coordination as a Metaphor for Learning in Multi-Agent Systems. In: Proc. of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Learning in DAI Systems, Budapeste, 1996. Also appeared in: Weiss, G. (ed.): Machine Learning meets DAI (Lect. Notes in Art. Intelligence 1221), Springer, 1997.
  • BAZZAN, A. L. C.   A Game-Theoretic Approach to Distributed Control of Traffic Signals (extended abstract). In: Proc. of the ICMAS'95 (First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems), June 1995, San Francisco, California, USA


Courses / Disciplinas

I normally teach INF 5004 (Advanced AI / Int. Artificial Avançada), Introduction to Multiagent Systems, Introduction to Algorithms, and courses on selected topics such as Swarm Intelligence / Social Insect Colony Inspired Computation, Game Theory. Please notice that, regarding these courses, pages are in Portuguese. I also co-organize a Seminar on Bioinformatics (although the main page is in Portuguese as well, you will find interesting links in English). Courses in previous semesters: INF 5013 (Symbolic and Numerical Computation / Computação Simbólica e Numérica), INF5508 (Lógica para Computação), and Coordination of Agents using Game Theoretic Techniques (for graduate students). Slides of my talks regarding this and other topics (some in Portuguese) can be downloaded (see links below).


Research Projects

  • Project Coordination and Task Allocation in Disaster Scenarios Using Swarm Intelligence and Multiagent Techniques (funded by AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
  • Our projects on Urban Mobility
  • RS-SOC-- Rede Estadual de Simulação Social (Ed. PRONEX 2009)
  • LabTrans-- Laboratório Computacional para simulação e testes de políticas relativas `a Mobilidade em Sistemas Inteligentes de Transporte (Ed. Fundo Transportes 2009)
  • Project SIMTUR -- Sistema Inteligente para Monitoramento de Tráfego Urbano (CTIC / RNP)
  • Former projects:
  • MOBIL -- MOdelagem de controle e roteamento de demanda em sistemas inteligentes de transporte: utilizando amBIentes de simulação muLtiagente (Ed. Universal 2008)
  • Project Large Scale Agent-based Traffic Simulation for Predicting Traffic Conditions (PROBRAL CAPES-DAAD)
  •  SISCOT (development of a microscopic traffic simulator)
  • SOCIAT (Simulation of Social Agents in Traffic) 
  • SURVIVE (project on experimental economics, game-theory, and traffic)
  • CUCLA - Combining Cognitive and Utilitarian Coordination in a Layered Agent Architecture (Research project funded by CNPq and NSF)

  • MAS and Bioinformatics page and the  ATUCG and A3C projects on developing an environment for annotation of genomes (restricted access)

  • Our work on Emotion and Personalitiy in Agents



    • Areas of Interest and Useful Links

  • Slides of the invited talk entitled "Traffic control and simulation using techniques from autonomous agents and multiagent systems: overview on achievements and future perspectives" given at the XXIV ANPET Meeting in Salvador (November 2010): (download here).

  • Slides (in Portuguese) of the Course entitled "IA Multiagente: Mais Inteligência, Mais Desafios" given at the JAI during the SBC meeting in Belo Horizonte (July 2010): (download here). Full text of the tutorial notes available here.

  • Slides (in Portuguese) of the Course entitled "Otimizacão em Sistemas Multiagentes" given during the CADSC 2010 (Escola de Computacão in S. Carlos (August 2010): (download here).

  • Slides (in Portuguese) of the Course entitled "Sistemas inteligentes de transporte e tráfego: uma abordagem de tecnologia da informacão" given at the JAI during the SBC meeting in Rio de Janeiro (July 2007): (introducão), (controle e simulacão), (ATIS), and (automacão, desafios futuros, simulacão de pedestres). Full text of the tutorial available here.

  • Slides (in Portuguese) of the Course on Game-Theoretic Techniques for Coordination of Agents given at the SBC meeting in Fortaleza (July 2001): MAS part, Game Theory part, and Aplications part.

  • Group of Artificial Intelligence (GIA) page 
  • MASLAB (Multiagent Systems Lab.)
  • Qualis da Computacão

  • Conferences of Interest plus Deadlines

  • Wiki of Maslab

  • news, lists and links for Multiagent systems, Agents, and Agent-based modelling

  • Artificial Intelligence:   CMU repository, AI journals, AI conferences 

  • Game Theory :   Microeconomics and one more  site on game theory

  • Conferences:  AAMAS ,  ITS (intelligent transportation systems)

  • Source of bibliography in CS:  ACM Portal,  DBLP (Uni Trier), citeseer

 ... and other stuff

 Contact

Ana Bazzan

e-mail: bazzan @@@ inf.ufrgs.br

Instituto de Informatica

Caixa Postal 15064, 91.501-970

Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Phone: +55 51 3308 6823

Fax: +55 51 3308 7308




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