SCATE

Beginning in Winter 2003, we have launched expanded UCSC research activities into agent technology, tools, applications and environments, building on the CoolAgent and BlueJade work we started at HP Laboratories. 

The two primary areas we are working on include:

• Applications of multi-agent systems to personal assistants 
    for traffic management and software development
• Agent-oriented software engineering technology

Index

• SCATE Overview
• SCATE email - agents@cse.ucsc.edu 
• SCATE Wiki - http://dav.cse.ucsc.edu/scateWiki 
• Research Goals
• Proposals active, submitted, in preparation
• PATH proposal workspace
• SCATE Seminar and Research Group
• JADE and CoolAgent usage notes
• Publications and References
• Conferences and Workshops
• Websites
• SCATE Documents
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SCATE Overview: A New Beginning in 2003

Martin Griss, Steve Fonseca, Charlie McDowell and others are in the process of writing grant proposals to various sources, installing agent technology and services, and exploring potential collaborations with students and colleagues at UCSC, SJSU and U of Utah.

We run a SCATE research seminar, and are planning several agent events with partners.

Research Goals and Interests

• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering - models, state machines, patterns, frameworks, generators, components, kits to improve agent-based system construction.
• Agent toolkits and standards - JADE, FIPA, JAS
• Personal and Team Assistants - using context-aware agents, machine learning, information retrieval and rule-based
• Intelligent Web Services - combining web-services, agents and machine learning
• Applications and Environments - meeting arrangement and monitoring, email management, mobile users & context-aware environments, e-commerce, software development environments, Agentcities testbed

Proposals and RFPs

• General: See agent-research pre-proposal for more detail on potential areas.
• Funded:
  • HP Labs SCATE $25k startup grant, funded Feb 6, 2003 - start in March!!
  • Borland - pre-proposal for BorCon  1-5 Nov, "agent track: talk, demo, tutorial", plan sent March 10, 2003
• Submitted:
  • PATH - California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways - RFP - proposal sent March 14, 2003
  • NASA resilient systems - http://www.eps.gov/spg/NASA/ARC/OPDC20220/NRA2-38150-WLT/Attachments.html  Solicitation 02 - pre-proposal sent  March 14
  • SJSU/UCSC  NISA - Networked Intelligent Agents - NSF Planning proposal, planning proposal sent March 28, 2003
  • Samsung - submitted to SAIT - Friday 28, 2003
• In preparation:
  • Microsoft Research - Personal Learning Assistant
• Relevant RFPs:
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation , pre-proposal due March 14, 2003
  • UCSC Discovery/challenge grant - http://uc-industry.berkeley.edu/fields/communications.htm - intent due April 14, grants Aug 5
  • Honda Initiation Grant , pre-proposal due April 21, 2003
  • DARPA
  • NSF
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SCATE Seminar and Research Group

• SCATE people - people interested in agents at UCSC
• SCATE research seminar - Thursdays, 3-4.30pm, 318 BE, 
       see http://dav.cse.ucsc.edu/scateWiki/ScateCalendar

References and Publications

• Martin Griss and colleagues agent-related publications
• Other agent papers

Conferences and Workshops

• SELMAS'03   - May 3-10, Portland, Oregon, at ICSE' 2003,  papers due Feb 1 -> Feb15!!
• AAMAS 2003 - July 4-18, 2003, Melbourne, Australia, paper submission closed.
• ISDAC 2003 - Agent Enabled P2P - Aug 10-13, 2003, Tulsa Oklahoma, papers due March 7
• BORCON - Borland Conference, Nov 1-5, 2003, San Jose

SCATE Documents

• cvs-use.html - simple tutorial
• scateboard.html - initial guidelines and goals for SCATE software engineering environment