Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

Research Projects

Research Overview

Distributed Artificial Intelligence

• Distributed Knowledge Networks
• Incremental Learning from Distributed, Dynamic Data Sources
• An Agent-Based Environment for Integrating and Analyzing Plant Genomic Databases
• Distributed Knowledge Networks for Monitoring and Control of Power Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems for Integrated Host and Network Based Intrusion Detection
• Agent-Based Approaches to Intelligent Traffic Management in Large Communication Networks
• Coordination and Control of Multi-Agent Systems
• Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Fusion from Heterogeneous, Distributed Data Sources

Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Knowledge Discovery, and Visualization

• Distributed Knowledge Networks
• Incremental Learning from Distributed, Dynamic Data Sources
• Interactive Visual Overviews of Large, Multi-Dimensional Datasets
• Constructive Neural Network Learning Algorithms for Pattern Classification
• Automata Induction, Grammar Inference, and Language Acquisition
• Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems
• Computational Model of Place Learning

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Research-Based Graduate Training in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• An Agent-Based Environment for Integrating and Analyzing Plant Genomic Databases
• Computational Modelling of Proteins
• Gene-Specific Chips for Exploring Molecular Evolutionary Changes
• Gene Expression Analysis
• Macro-Molecular Structure-Function Prediction
• Computational Linguitics of Biological Macromolecules

Neural Computation

• Incremental Learning from Distributed, Dynamic Data Sources
• Interactive Visual Overviews of Large, Multi-Dimensional Datasets
• Constructive Neural Network Learning Algorithms for Pattern Classification
• Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems
• Neural Architectures for Knowledge Representation and Inference
• Computational Model of Place Learning

Complex Adaptive Systems

• Distributed Knowledge Networks
• Incremental Learning from Distributed, Dynamic Data Sources
• Distributed Knowledge Networks for Monitoring and Control of Power Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems for Integrated Host and Network Based Intrusion Detection
• Agent-Based Approaches to Intelligent Traffic Management in Large Communication Networks
• Coordination and Control of Multi-Agent Systems
• Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems
• Computational Model of Place Learning

Applied Artificial Intelligence

• An Agent-Based Environment for Integrating and Analyzing Plant Genomic Databases
• Distributed Knowledge Networks for Monitoring and Control of Power Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems for Integrated Host and Network Based Intrusion Detection
• Agent-Based Approaches to Intelligent Traffic Management in Large Communication Networks
• Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems
• Neural Architectures for Knowledge Representation and Inference
• Gene-Specific Chips for Exploring Molecular Evolutionary Changes
• Gene Expression Analysis
• Macro-Molecular Structure-Function Prediction

Dr. Vasant Honavar
Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Atanasoff Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1040 USA
email: honavar@cs.iastate.edu
phone: +1-515-294-1098, +1-515-294-4377; fax: +1-515-294-0258