Dan Corkill

I am a Senior Research Scientist working in the area of collaborating-software systems. I am Associate Director of the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory, and I'm also a member of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory.

Research Interests

I am exploring issues in combining software systems and individuals to form effective collaborating processes and organizations. I am particularly interested in complex, dynamic settings where people and advanced software entities work together in structured, yet highly adaptable, ways.

Current Research Areas

Collaborating Software Systems — Creating new forms of software-entity interaction and coordination by extending the collaboration mechanisms of blackboard and multi-agent systems.

Live-Representation Process Management — Developing distributed process and resource-centric management and execution technology with continual downstream forecasting that supports human managerial oversight and control.

Oranizationally Adept Agents — Developing agents that adjust their behavior when given organizational directives and, most importantly, are able to determine when such directives become ineffective and proactively adapt to better achieve organizational objectives.

The Pasta Microsensor 2.0 (“Ziti”): the smallest known AI blackboard system!

Link List

• Research projects
• Brief biography
• CV (PDF)
• Some on-line publications (old and new)
• GBBopen Project open-source blackboard-system framework
• Presentation abstracts:
  • Collaborating Software: Blackboard and multi-agent systems and the future
  • Controlling the Chaos: Live-representation management of dynamic design processes
• The Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory
• The Knowledge Discovery Laboratory

Personal Stuff

• My personal web site
• Follow me on twitter
• Current weather in South Amherst (PWS at my house)
• Current weather at the CS Department
• Pinball (an addiction)
• 3-Handed Spades (for fun)