COLLOQUIUM
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina
 
Agent-Oriented Modeling for Social Grocery Shopping and Other Societal
Information Systems

 Kuldar Taveter
 Department of Informatics
Tallinn University of Technology

Date: January 28, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 1430-1530 (2:30-3:30pm)
Place: Swearingen 2A31

Abstract

Agent-oriented modeling is a holistic approach for engineering
socio-technical systems. It proposes a set of canonical models that
are categorized according to three vertical abstraction
layers---analysis, design, and platform-specific design---and three
horizontal perspectives: interaction, information, and behavior. In my
presentation, I will explain how agent-oriented modeling has been
applied to the engineering of an agent-based information system for
social grocery shopping and generalize from that case study. At the
beginning of my talk, I will briefly introduce my country and
university.

Kuldar Taveter is a Professor and Chair in Software Engineering at
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (EU). His research interests
are ontologies and the engineering of multiagent systems and
agent-based simulation systems. From 2005 to 2008, Professor Taveter was
a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. That period resulted
in The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling (MIT Press, 2009), a monograph
jointly authored with Professor Leon Sterling. Previously, he worked
for eight years as a Research Scientist at the Technical Research
Centre of Finland.  Professor Taveter is currently a Fulbright scholar
at the University of South Carolina working with Professor Mike Huhns.