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.

Multi-Agent Organizations — Integrating designed and emergent organizational coordination of multi-agent systems.

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

Link List

• Brief biography
• CV (PDF)
• Some on-line publications (old and new)
• Blackboard systems:
  • GBBopen Project open-source blackboard-system framework
  • BBTech Corporation
• The Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory
• The Knowledge Discovery Laboratory
• Some presentation abstracts:
  • Collaborating Software: Blackboard and multi-agent systems and the future
  • Controlling the Chaos: Live-representation management of dynamic design processes
• Multi-Agent Organizations (Spring 2007 graduate seminar)
• Proximity open-source system for relational knowledge discovery
• Current weather information and archived WeatherCam images
• Pinball (an addiction)
• Others in my family run Starlight Farm in Holyoke, Massachusetts. (Not everyone in our family is hung up on pinball...!)