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he operation of a human organization requires dozens of everyday tasks to ensure coherence in organizational activities, to monitor the status of such activities, to gather information relevant to the organization, to keep everyone in the organization informed, etc. Teams of software agents can aid humans in accomplishing these tasks, facilitating the organization's coherent functioning and rapid response to crises, while reducing the burden on humans. Based on this vision, Electric Elves has been in operation 24/7 at ISI since June 1, 2000. Tied to individual user workstations, fax machines, voice, mobile devices such as cell phones and palm pilots, Electric Elves has assisted us in routine tasks, such as rescheduling meetings, selecting presenters for research meetings, tracking people's locations, organizing lunch meetings, etc. There are a number of underlying AI technologies that support the Electric Elves, including technologies devoted to agent-human interactions, agent coordination, accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources, dynamic assignment of organizational tasks, and deriving information about organization members. This project was funded by the Defense Research Advanced Project Agency (DARPA), Control of Agent-based Systems (COABS) program. Prof. Jim Hendler is the program manager for this program. This project unites all existing COABS agent projects at the
Information Sciences Institute Intelligent systems Division. These
constituent projects include: Teamcore - Milind Tambe, David Pynadath ARIADNE - Craig Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Jean Oh Ontology-Based Agent Matching and Communication - Yolanda Gil, Hans Chalupsky, Tom Russ This project was funded by the Defense Research Advanced Project Agency (DARPA), Control of Agent-based Systems (COABS) program. Prof. Jim Hendler is the program manager for this program. |