SICS Lab: SICS Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Research Interests: Distributed computing, bandwidth markets, multi-agent negotiation, stochastic modeling.

Contact

Background

I got my MSc in Computer Science at KTH, Stockholm, in 1996. I currently work at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at SICS in Kista, Stockholm.

Interests

I'm currently involved in the COORD project which aims to develop decentralized coordination mechanisms. The focus lies on market-oriented programming, and modelling resource allocation systems as stochastic processes.

Other topics of interest include security issues for agent systems and their dynamic properties - how such systems may be built in order to encourage cooperative behavior and to weed out malicious and inefficient agents.

Projects

• COORD
• Emarkets

Earlier Projects

• ADIT
• Intage
• TAC

Publications

• Rasmusson, L. 2001. "Evaluating Resource Bundle Derivatives for Multi-Agent Negotiation of Resource Allocation.", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Vol. #2033, entitled "E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand.", Springer Verlag, Berlin.
• Rasmusson, L. 1999. "Agent Negotiation over Compound Network Resources." In Proceedings of the IAT99 Workshop on Agents in Electronic Commerce, Hong Kong.
• Rasmusson, L. and S. Janson. 1999. "Agents, self-interest and electronic markets." The Knowledge Engineering Review, 14 (2) 1999: 143-150.

Submitted

• Rasmusson, L. 2001. "Pricing Virtual Paths with Quality-of-Service Guarantees as Bundle Derivatives." Submitted to IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networks, June 2001.
• Rasmusson, L. and Aurell, E. 2001. "A Price Dynamics in Bandwidth Markets for Point-to-point Connections."

Old publications

• Lars Rasmusson, Decentralized Coordination for Open Distributed Systems, Technical Report, 1997.
  A survey of decentralized coordination techniques.
• Lars Rasmusson, Andreas Rasmusson and Sverker Janson, Using Agents to Secure the Internet Marketplace -- Reactive Security and Social Control, Proc. of PAAM'97, London, UK, 1997.
  (117k gzip:ed postscript)
• Lars Rasmusson, Socially Controlled Global Agent Systems, Master's Thesis, 96-x-20, DSV, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, October, 1996.
  (188k gzip:ed postscript)
• Lars Rasmusson and Sverker Janson, Simulated Social Control for Secure Internet Commerce, Proc. of the New Security Paradigms Workshop, September, 1996.
  (It discusses social mechanisms for secure internet markets.)

UNSUPPORTED Hacks

• Generating Faces [Jul 1996]
• SimWB lets you study the effect of some choice mechanisms in markets. [Apr 1996]