Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

Distributed Knowledge Networks
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• Dr. Vasant Honavar, Principal Investigator.
• Dr. Johnny Wong, Co-Principal Investigator.
• Dr. Jihoon Yang, Former Ph.D. Student.
• Ms. Doina Caragea, Ph.D. Student.
• Ms. Taru Trivedi, Ph.D. Student.

Project Summary

This research seeks to develop, implement, and evaluate algorithmic and systems solutions for distributed knowledge networks multi-agent organizations consisting of stationary as well as mobile intelligent software agents designed to support the utilization of heterogeneous, distributed data and knowledge sources for automated data-driven knowledge acquisition and decision support. This will include:

1. Design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of intelligent software agent architectures and algorithms for customizable, adaptive, proactive, reactive, context-sensitive information retrieval, extraction, transformation, and fusion using heterogeneous, distributed data and knowledge sources.
2. Design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of learning algorithms and data transformation tools for automated (or semi-automated) incremental data-driven knowledge discovery and theory refinement using heterogeneous, distributed (including mobile) data sources.
3. Design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of multi-agent organizations and coordination structures for distributed knowledge networks.

Anticipated results of this research include new algorithms and software tools which will help translate the recent advances in automated data acquisition, digital storage, computers and communications into fundamental gains in scientific understanding (e.g., through data-driven, computer-supported discovery in biological sciences), and information technology for organizational decision support, complex distributed systems monitoring and control, and related applications.

This research is closely integrated with education and training of graduate and undergraduate students in Computer Science and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University.

Funding

• Distributed Knowledge Networks, John Deere Foundation, 1999-2000. Vasant Honavar. $30,000.
• An Agent-Based Environment for Integrating and Analysing Plant Genome Databases. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 2000-2001. Vasant Honavar, Drena Dobbs, and Les Miller. $40,000.
• Intelligent Agents for Intrusion Detection. Department of Defense (1998-2000), J ohnny Wong, Vasant Honavar, and Les Miller. $199,769.

Publications

• Honavar, V. (1999). Distributed Knowledge Networks. Invited Talk. Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Information Networks (AiDIN '99) Workshop held during the 1999 National Confere nce on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 99), Orlando, Florida. July 1999.
• Caragea, D., Silvescu, A., and Honavar, V. (1999). Incremental Distributed Support Vector Induction. To appear.
• Yang, J. (1999). Adaptive Agents For Information Retrieval and Data-Driven Knowledge Acquisition. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Computer Science. Iowa State University.
• Honavar, V., Miller, L. and Wong, J. (1998). Distributed Knowledge Networks. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Conference. Syracuse, NY.
• Helmer, G., Wong, J., Honavar, V. and Miller, L. (1998). Intelligent Agents for Intrusion Detection. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Conference. Syracuse, NY.
• Miller, L., Honavar, V. and Wong, J. (1998). Object-Oriented Data Warehouse for Information Fusion from Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Conference. Syracuse, NY.
• Yang, J., Pai, P., Honavar, V., and Miller, L. (1998). Mobile Intelligent Agents for Document Classification and Retrieval: A Machine Learning Approach. In: Proceedings of the European Symposium on Cybernetics and Systems Research.
• Yang, J., Havaldar, R., Honavar, V., Miller, L. and Wong, J. (1998). Coordination and Control of Distributed Knowledge Networks Using the Contract Net Protocol. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Conference. Syracuse, NY.
• Mikler, A., Honavar, V. and Wong, J. (1995). Heuristics for Intelligent Adaptive Routing in Large Communication Networks. Under review. A preliminary version appeared in [mikler96].

Additional Information

To appear.

© Vasant Honavar, 1999.