Disaster Response
Project Appears in Local News
Our disaster response research project has been featured in both the Daily Breeze newspaper and the local television news. We have videos of the coverage available. See links below to download in Windows Media (WMV) and Quicktime (MP4) formatted files:
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UPN 13 News. Runtime: 01:57 Download in ASX, WMV and MP4
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Fox 11 News. Runtime: 00:34 Download in ASX, WMV and MP4
Project Overview
The aim of my research is to enable humans and agents to work together in teams. Agents are becoming sophisticated and more capable of replacing some human team members in real world dynamic situations. The multiagent teams are becoming more complex, larger-scale, and more intelligent. As such they are capable of making more decisions on the team and not just taking commands. Though there is potential for team performance improvement, these new human agent teams introduce a new set of challenges to overcome.
Toward these goals, I have constructed a research prototype, called DEFACTO (Demonstrating Effective Flexible Agent Coordination of Teams through Omnipresence) to implement these approaches. Though DEFACTO can be used for deployed applications, it is initially being used as a modeling and simulation tool to improve on current training methods.
This project is funded by the USC Homeland Security Center (CREATE).
People
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Milind Tambe
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Nathan Schurr
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Madhuri Kottamraju
Selected Publications
For a complete list of publications, select he above Publications tab.
Co-authors
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Emma Bowring
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Madhuri Kottamraju
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Janusz Marecki
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Praveen Paruchuri
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Jonathan Pearce
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Milind Tambe
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Pradeep Varakantham
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Xiaoming Zheng