Martin L. Griss -  Research vision and agenda

My overall goal is to make the engineering and use of industrial-strength agent-based intelligent personal assistants and web-services easier.

My research involves and integrates several different areas, which bring multi-agent systems, component reuse, web-services and intelligent software together. The primary themes that interest me are:

• software agents as next generation components - this leads to components and frameworks that are more flexible, adaptable, robust and self-managing
• software agents to assist in personal and team tasks - such as email, scheduling, information management and software development and reuse

My recent work includes:

• multi-agent systems - agent protocols, model-driven agent generation,  agent-frameworks, and agent standards
• intelligence - combining information retrieval, machine learning, rule-based systems and agents
• component-reuse - developing a multi-level Java agent-kit based on J2EE and Jade
• personal assistant - designing and prototyping agents to assist in management of meetings and email