Publicado em: 08/06/2010

Palestra sobre Sistemas Multiagentes

O prof. Yves Demazeau, de Grenoble, França, realiza no INF uma palestra sobre Sistemas Multiagentes. Ele é diretor de pesquisa do Centro Nacional em Pesquisa Científica da França e professor na Faculdade de Ciência e Engenharia da University of Southern Denmark. Na aula, ele fala um pouco sobre a história dos Sistemas Multiagentes e como podem ser usados tanto na Ciência da Computação quanto na Economia. O professor também foca a sua palestra na inclusão do usuário nos sistemas, já que ele tem sido negligenciado nos últimos 20 anos.

Data: quinta-feira, 10/06/2010
Hora: 11:00
Local: Auditório do Centro de Eventos (prédio novo)
Idioma: Inglês

ABSTRACT

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have now existed for more than 20 years? In the first 10 years, the community was asked to build usable MAS? In the following 10 years, it was asked to build useful MAS? It is now time to build MAS that are regularly used. This mainly concerns specifying: the purpose of the domain, and the purpose of the user.

In this lecture, we will first discuss the VOWELS paradigm (Agent, Environment, Interaction, Organisation) as was introduced for design purposes in the 90’s. We show how it has evolved from design to programming to contribute to the trend of multi-agent oriented programming. Such a traditional way of design and programming multi-agents has been highly successful and we illustrate this with two examples from geographical information systems and reconfigurable modular robotics.
We then focus on the purpose of the domain and show how the design of MAS can be so different moving from computer science to economic sciences. The evolution of the MAS paradigm beyond that is questionable. We then focus on the purpose of the user. The user has been highly neglected in the design of MAS for the last 20 years. He or she should take a better place. We will discuss the role of the user within the VOWELS paradigm and in interactive games. We will illustrate it through two examples in playware and artistic creation.

Playing with the vowels and including the user is not only an exercise; it also contributes to the evolution of computing towards creativity concerns, and more generally to the service to the person. This line of thought is driving our work agenda for the next years as well as pushing the MAS community towards practical applications.

SHORT CV

 Yves Demazeau is currently Director of Research at CNRS and External Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Southern Denmark since 2002. He is member and the coordinator of the MAGMA research group on Multi-Agent Systems at the LIG Computer Science Laboratory in Grenoble, and external member of the MaerskMc-Kinney Moller Institute in Odense since its creation in 1997. He has been Visiting Professor at VUB Brussels in 1989 and Odense University in 1994.

Yves Demazeau has been active in the research and development of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) for 23 years. He has edited 22 books or proceedings, has authored or co-authored 123 papers and has given more than 46 invited lectures, 116 seminars, and 21 tutorials in this research area. With a close connection to his research interests, Yves Demazeau has advised 48 MSc and 20 PhD theses. He has also participated to 61 PhD examination boards and 11 HDR examination boards.

More information at http://membres-lig.imag.fr/demazeau/