Agent-Based Systems

Overview

See also: Agent-Based Systems in SICS Strategic Research Program 1999-2002

Researchers

• Sverker Janson, Ph.D. (principal investigator)
• Joakim Eriksson, M.Sc. (Ph.D. student)
• Niclas Finne, M.Sc. (Ph.D. student)
• Lars Rasmusson, Ph.D.
• Niklas Wirström

Current Projects

	Towards Adaptive Supply Networks (2003-) - We explore adaptive control of supply networks methods, with the aim to improve delivery precision, robustness and costs. Activities include simulation modeling of supply chains and benchmarking through the Trading Agent Competition. (Stiftelsen SISU)
	Autonomic Networked Systems (2003-) - IBM's Autonomic Computing initiative proposes self-managing systems, with self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-protecting capabilities. We explore self-management concepts for networked systems, such as ERP systems, telecom systems and C&C systems. (VINNOVA)
	Trading Agent Competition (2001-) - TAC is an international forum designed to promote and encourage high quality research into trading agent problems, initiated by Prof. Michael Wellman at U Mich. Since 2002, we provide the TAC software platforms and run the competitions. In 2003, SICS and CMU created the new TAC Supply Chain Management game format.

Publications

• Raghu Arunachalam, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Sverker Janson, and Norman Sadeh. The TAC supply chain management game. Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-03-184, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2003. (PDF)

• Norman Sadeh, Raghu Arunachalam, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. TAC-03: A supply-chain trading competition. AI Magazine, 24(1):92-94, Spring 2003.

• Erik Aurell, Magnus Boman, Mats Carlsson, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Sverker Janson, Per Kreuger, and Lars Rasmusson. A constraint programming agent for automated trading. In 8th International Conference of The Society for Computational Economics Computing in Economics and Finance, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 27-29, 2002. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson and Sverker Janson. The trading agent competition - tac 2002. ERCIM News, (51), October 2002. (PDF)

• Lars Rasmusson. Evaluating the cdf for m weighted sums of n correlated lognormal random variables. In Proc. of the 8th Int. Conf. on Computing in Economics and Finance, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 2002. Soc. for Computational Economics.

• Lars Rasmusson. Network capacity sharing with QoS as a financial derivative pricing problem: algorithms and network design. PhD thesis, The Royal Institute of Technology, December 2002. SICS Dissertation Series 32.

• Lars Rasmusson. Pricing virtual paths with quality-of-service guarantees as bundle derivatives. Technical Report SICS--T-21--SE, SICS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001. Submitted to IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking.

• Lars Rasmusson and Erik Aurell. A price dynamics in bandwidth markets for point-to-point connections. Technical Report SICS--T-21--SE, SICS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001.

• Sverker Janson. Smartare e-handel med intelligenta agenter. Forskning och Framsteg, 00(7):44-48, 2000. Popular science in Swedish.

• Sverker Janson. Vad är agenter? varför behöver vi agenter? vilka är deras roller? Seminar transcript in Swedish. In: Rättsliga och andra samhällsaspekter på agentteknik, PM 7:2000, Det IT-Rättsliga Observatoriet, 2000. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. SICS MarketSpace: an agent-based market infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Trading. Springer-Verlag, 1999. (PDF)

• Tomas Olsson, Andreas Rasmusson, and Sverker Janson. Personalized decentralized communication. In Bringing Knowledge to Business Processes Papers from 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-00-03. AAAI Press, 1999. Poster presentation. (PDF)

• Lars Rasmusson. Evaluating resource bundle derivatives for multi-agent negotiation of resource allocation. In E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand, volume 2033 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999.

• Lars Rasmusson and Sverker Janson. Agents, self-interest, and electronic markets. Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(2):143-150, 1999. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. To each and everyone an agent: augmenting web-based commerce with agents. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Agents on the Internet and Web, Mexico City, 1998. World Congress on Expert Systems. (PDF)

• Tomas Olsson. Decentralised social filtering based on trust. In AAAI-98 Recommender Systems Workshop Papers, pages 84-88. AAAI, 1998. (PostScript)

• Lars Pettersson. An agent-based interface to multiple databases. Master's thesis, Uppsala University, Computing Science Department, 1998. (PostScript)

• Andreas Rasmusson, Tomas Olsson, and Preben Hansen. A virtual community library: SICS digital library infrastructure project. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - Second European Conference, ECDL'98, volume 1513 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 677-678, Heraklion, Crete, 1998. Springer-Verlag.

• Joakim Eriksson and Niclas Finne. MarketSpace: an open agent-based market infrastructure. Master's thesis, Uppsala University, Computing Science Department, 1997. (PostScript)

• Joakim Eriksson, Fredrik Espinoza, Niclas Finne, Fredrik Holmgren, Sverker Janson, Niklas Kaltea, and Olle Olsson. An Internet software platform based on SICStus Prolog. Presented at Logic Programming and the Web, WWW5, San Jose, 1997. (PDF)

• Charlton P, Mamdani E, Olsson O, Pitt J, Somers F, and Waern A. An open agent architechture supporting multimedia services on public information. In Proceedings 2nd Int'l Conference Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent (PAAM '97), pages 445-465, April 1997.

• Charlton P, Mamdani EH, Olsson O, and Pitt JV. An open agent architechture supporting multimedia services on public information kiosks. In Conference proceedings of Intelligent Agents, March 1997.

• Charlton P, Mamdani EH, Olsson O, Pitt JV, Somers F, and Waern A. An open agent architechture for integrating multimedia services. In Proceedings of Emerging Technologies, January 1997.

• Charlton P, Espinoza F, Mamdani EH, Olsson O, Pitt JV, Somers F, and Waern A. Using an asset model for integration of agents and multimedia to provide an open service architecture. In Proceedings ECMAST'97 Conference, pages 635-660, 1997.

• Charlton P, Chen Y, Mamdani EH, Olsson O, Pitt JV, Somers F, and Waern A. An open agent architechture for integrating multimedia services. In Proceedings of AA, 1997.

• Lars Rasmusson, Andreas Rasmusson, and Sverker Janson. Using agents to secure the Internet marketplace: Reactive security and social control. In Proceedings of Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 1997 (PAAM'97), London, UK, 1997. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. Information and interaction in MarketSpace and their implementation in Prolog. Presented at LPNET'96 (1st Workshop on Logic Programming Tools for Internet Applications), ICLP'96, 1996. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. Information and interaction in MarketSpace: towards an open agent-based market infrastructure. In Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce. USENIX, 1996. (PDF)

• Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson. Surfing the market and making sense of the web. Presented at Programming the Web -- In Search of APIs, WWW5, Paris, 1996. (PDF)

• Johan Montelius, Sverker Janson, and Jan Gabrielsson et al. Intentions and intelligent screening in an agent-based personal communication system. Presented at IATA'96 (Intelligent Agents in Telecommunication Applications), ECAI'96, Budapest., 1996. (PDF)

• Andreas Rasmusson. Interactive security assistance for end-user supervision of untrusted programs. Master's thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, 1996. (PostScript)

• Lars Rasmusson. Socially controlled global agent systems. Master's thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, 1996. (PostScript)

• Andreas Rasmusson and Sverker Janson. Personal security assistance for secure Internet commerce. In New Security Paradigms '96. ACM Press, 1996. (PDF)

• Lars Rasmusson and Sverker Janson. Simulated social control for secure Internet commerce. In New Security Paradigms '96. ACM Press, 1996. (PDF)

• Lars Rasmusson, Andreas Rasmusson, and Sverker Janson. Reactive security and social control. In 19th National Information Systems Security Conference. NISSC, 1996. (PDF)