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Professor Jean-Paul Barthès

Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne

Date: 5/20/2014

Time: 13:00~15:00

Location: Engineering Building I, Lecture Hall 106
Title: Introduction to multi-agent systems and intelligent personal assistant agents

Biography

Prof. Jean-Paul Barthès obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1973. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in France. He was the co-founder of the Heudiasyc CNRS Laboratory, currently one of the few Laboratories of Excellence in France.

He is a member of IEEE and co-chair of the of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design and co-chair of the CSCWD International Steering Committee. His main research interests are related to Distributed Artificial Intelligence and mixed societies of cognitive artificial and human agents.

Abstract of Tutorials

The tutorial will first review some basics of agents and multi-agent systems like an agent definition, the distinction between reactive agents and cognitive agent, the basic communication mechanisms, the difference between agents and active objects, and give examples of such systems. A second part will be devoted to the concept of personal assistant agent as a mechanism for implementing the interaction between humans and multi-agent systems. I will present how interactions can be done using natural language and give some examples of such systems including multilingual situations.

Professor Weiming Shen
National Research Council Canada

Date: 5/20/2014

Time: 15:15~17:15

Location: Engineering Building I, Lecture Hall 106
Title: Applications of Intelligent Software Agents to Collaborative Design and Manufacturing

Biography

Dr. Weiming Shen is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, China and his PhD degree from the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. He has published several books and over 300 papers in scientific journals and international conferences. His work has been cited over 6,500 times with an h-index of 38.

His survey paper on agent-based intelligent manufacturing (original version in 1999 and updated version in 2006) has been cited about 950 times, and is believed to be the most cited reference in the field. He was awarded by Elsevier as the Most Cited Author 2005-2010. He has been invited to provide over 70 invited lectures/seminars at different academic and research institutions over the world and keynote presentations/ tutorials at various international conferences.

He is a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of ten international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Service Oriented Computing and Applications) and served as guest editor for several other international journals. He is the Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, and has been Program Committee Co-Chair of the CSCWD conferences since 2001. He also served as Chair/Co-Chair or Program Committee member for over 100 other international conferences.

Abstract of Tutorials

Agent technology represents a new paradigm for developing collaborative design and manufacturing systems. During the past two decades, a significant number of researchers and practitioners have been trying to apply intelligent software agents in the areas of engineering design, intelligent manufacturing, and supply chain management. Under the context of these areas, an agent can be defined as a software system that communicates and cooperates with other software systems to solve a complex problem that is beyond the capability of each individual software system. Intelligent software agents can be used to encapsulate existing software systems to realize legacy systems integration, represent manufacturing resources (e.g., operators, machines, robots, and cells) to implement distributed manufacturing process planning, scheduling and control, and to represent organizations to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and negotiation. This talk presents some first-hand experience in developing agent-based collaborative design and manufacturing systems during the past 20+ years, and discusses future trends, R&D opportunities and challenges.