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Autonomous Negotiating Teams
PI Meeting

November 28-30, 2000
Westin Francis Marion
Charleston, SC
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Introduction

The central theme of the PI meeting is the midterm review of results. ANT projects will be divided into 4 categories:

1. Logistics Demonstration projects (ISI, Vanderbilt)
2. Real-time, distributed resource allocation technology projects (UMass, ISI, Kestrel, SRI, U. of Kansas, U. of South Carolina, MSI)
3. Complexity and dynamics projects (Cornell, U. of Oregon, Washington University, ISI, ERIM, Utah State)
4. Final demonstration projects (Sanders, Honeywell)
In order to help the communication of ideas and understanding the results, Janos asks that the presentations explicitly include the following information:

Logistics demonstration projects:

  1. Application overview
  2. Mapping the application into the developed resource allocation architecture
  3. Methods (or hooks) for controlling computational complexity
  4. Methods (or hooks) for controlling dynamic behavior
  5. Review of experimental data
  6. Next step
Real-time, distributed resource allocation technology projects:
  1. Mapping the challenge problem into the developed resource allocation architecture
  2. Utilization of the selected architecture in large-scale problems
  3. Methods (or hooks) for controlling computational complexity
  4. Methods (or hooks) for controlling dynamic behavior
  5. Review of experimental data
  6. Remaining work
Complexity and dynamics projects:
  1. Summary of the proposed approach
  2. Explanation of its application in the context of one or more existing ANT project
  3. General conditions for applicability
  4. Specific suggestion for integration approaches and interfaces
  5. Plans
Final demonstration projects:
  1. Application overview
  2. Mapping the application into the developed resource allocation architecture
  3. Component technologies used (or planned to be used) in the solution
  4. Methods (or hooks) for controlling computational complexity
  5. Methods (or hooks) for controlling dynamic behavior
  6. Review of existing results
  7. Next step
The meeting agenda will include time for demonstrations for those who wish to use the opportunity for additional discussions and teaming arrangements. The demonstration time is open to any PIs who wish to show software; from any of the groups (logistics demos, all CP participant (simulator), Complexity and dynamics projects, and Final Demo projects. The challenge problem hardware will not be set up for the demos.

Direct comments concerning this meeting to: John Luca