[agents] PhD defense cerimony: Monday 5-OCT, 12.45pm, at Academiegebouw, Utrecht

[Fernando Koch]

Dear Agent-ers,

 

Please, feel invited to attend to my PhD defense ceremony on Monday, 5-OCT,
12.45pm at the Academiegebouw (University hall), Utrecht. There will be a
reception for celebration after the ceremony.

 

A short summary is below. More information on the web page at:

 

http://fernandokoch.com/academia-phd.html

 

"An Agent-Based Model for the Development of Intelligent Mobile Services"

 

The proposal is to define a computing model that supports the development of
better, more intelligent mobile services. The solution must consider
environment information, provide a flexible deliberation cycle, and explore
the trade-off between quality of information and resource efficiency. The
fundamental questions are:

 

.         How to balance proactivess and reactiveness in mobile services?

.         How contextual information can be used to support the decision
process? That is, how information from the environment can help to decide
when stop being proactive and act reactively, and vice versa? 

.         How to extend the deliberation model to inherently support these
elements?

 

The research question is:

.         What is the architecture of the inference system needed to support
the development of intelligent mobile services?

 

The thesis addresses architectures and methods for building intelligent
mobile services using agent-based technology. The proposed model is an
extension of the BDI-model of software agents, equipping it to operate in
highly dynamic environments. The work encompasses: analysis of related work,
conceptual model, design model, a proof-of-concept implementation, and
validation through simulations.--

 

If you are interested/curious, please ask for a printed/digital copy of the
thesis book.

 

The ceremony committee consists of:

 

1.       Prof. Dr. J. Mueller (Clausthal, reading comm.) 

2.       Prof. Dr. C. Jonker (TUD, reading comm.) 

3.       Prof. Dr. C. Witteveen (TUD, reading comm) 

4.       Prof. Dr. J. Treur (VUA, reading comm.)  

5.       Dr. M. Dastani (UU) 

6.       Prof. Dr. J. van Leeuwen (UU) (q) 

7.       Prof. Dr. S.D. Swierstra (UU) (q)

8.       Prof. Dr. J. van den Berg (UU) (q)

9.       Dr. F.P.M. Dignum (UU, co-promotor)

10.   Prof. Dr. E. Sonenberg (Melbourne, promotor) 

11.   Prof. Dr. J.-J. Ch. Meyer (UU, promotor)

12.   Prof. Dr. A. Siebes (UU, chairman)

 

It will be a great pleasure to have you all in the audience and together
during the reception.

 

 

Kind regards-

 

 

--

Fernando Koch

PhD Candidate in Computer Sciences

Intelligent Systems Group

Department of Information and Computing Sciences

Universiteit Utrecht

 

http://fernandokoch.com