Research Project
Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems
Research Goal
This research project is about developing intelligent multimedia multi-agent
systems based on a human-centred approach. It is relevant to practitioners
and researchers in areas like human-centred systems, intelligent systems,
multimedia, image processing, internet and e-commerce, e-health and health
informatics, software engineering (especially those using patterns and
adapter technologies) and cognitive science. The research involves input
from areas like work-centered design, situated and distributed cognition,
activity theory, multimedia, problem solving ontologies and pattern and
adapter design concepts. The term “intelligent” in the title
represents the hard and soft computing technologies and their hybrid configurations
used for modeling complex tasks. The term “Multimedia” in
the title represents two contexts of multimedia. Firstly, multimedia artifacts
have been used for human-centred modeling of data in order to improve
the representational efficiency and effectiveness of the human-computer
interface. Secondly, it is used in the context of multimedia information
management and retrieval issues on the internet and the role of human
or user-centred models in addressing these issues. The third term “Multi-agent”
represents the software artifact used to define among other aspects, the
intelligent technology artifacts and multimedia artifacts at the computational
level of system development. Finally, the term “system” in
the title represents the fact that we have used a system (consisting of
a number of components) as the unit of analysis for developing computer-based
artifacts.
Team Members
Rajiv Khosla, Ishwar Sethi, Ernesto Damiani and several others.
Publications
[1] R.Khosla and D. Phillips, Human-Centered Multimedia Multi-Agent Clinical
Diagnosis and Treatment Support System in Joint European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM'99)
- http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/html/scien.htm, Denmark, June 1999
[2] R. Khosla, I. Sethi and E. Damiani, Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent
Systems
– A Human-Centred Approach (includes aspects related to socio-technical
systems), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts, USA,. October 2000,
333 pages
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