The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group,claiming nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022. Its headquarters are in New York City.
A multi-agent system is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or a monolithic system to solve. Intelligence may include methodic,functional,procedural approaches,algorithmic search or reinforcement learning.
James Alexander Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,United States,and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara is a Greek computer scientist. She is an Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute,School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally known for her research in artificial intelligence,particularly in the fields of negotiation,autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. She directs the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab at Robotics Institute,Carnegie Mellon University. She also serves as academic advisor for PhD students at both Robotics Institute and Tepper School of Business.
Swoogle was a search engine for Semantic Web ontologies,documents,terms and data published on the Web. Swoogle employed a system of crawlers to discover RDF documents and HTML documents with embedded RDF content. Swoogle reasoned about these documents and their constituent parts and recorded and indexed meaningful metadata about them in its database.
Amit Sheth is a computer scientist at University of South Carolina in Columbia,South Carolina. He is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute,and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. From 2007 to June 2019,he was the Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar,director of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing,and a Professor of Computer Science at Wright State University. Sheth's work has been cited by over 48,800 publications. He has an h-index of 106,which puts him among the top 100 computer scientists with the highest h-index. Prior to founding the Kno.e.sis Center,he served as the director of the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab at the University of Georgia in Athens,Georgia.
William Aaron Woods,generally known as Bill Woods,is a researcher in natural language processing,continuous speech understanding,knowledge representation,and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.
Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist,and Technical Fellow at Microsoft,where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer. He was previously the director of Microsoft Research Labs,including research centers in Redmond,WA,Cambridge,MA,New York,NY,Montreal,Canada,Cambridge,UK,and Bangalore,India.
Munindar P. Singh is a SAS institute distinguished professor and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. Singh is an IEEE Fellow,a AAAI Fellow,a AAAS Fellow,an ACM Fellow,a Member of Academia Europaea,and a ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recipient.
Nicholas Robert Jennings is a British computer scientist and the current Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University. He was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London,the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science,and the inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. His research covers the areas of AI,autonomous systems,agent-based computing and cybersecurity. He is involved in a number of startups including Aerogility,Contact Engine,Crossword Cyber Security,and Reliance Cyber Science. He is also an adviser to Darktrace,a member of the UK Government's AI Council,chair of the National Engineering Policy Centre and a council member for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Dignum is a Dutch computer scientist. He is currently a Professor of Socially-Aware AI at UmeåUniversity and an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the Utrecht University. Dignum is best known from his work on software agents,multi-agent systems and fundamental aspects of social agents.
Henry A. Kautz is a computer scientist,Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation,artificial intelligence,data science and pervasive computing.
Maria Gini is an Italian and American Computer Scientist in artificial intelligence and robotics. She has considerable service to the computer science artificial intelligence community and for broadening participation in computing. She was Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence SIGAI from 2003 to 2010. She is currently a member of the CRA-W board.
Michael John Wooldridge is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems,and in particular,in the computational theory aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents. His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic,game theory,and social choice theory.
A semantic decomposition is an algorithm that breaks down the meanings of phrases or concepts into less complex concepts. The result of a semantic decomposition is a representation of meaning. This representation can be used for tasks,such as those related to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Semantic decomposition is common in natural language processing applications.
Jiebo Luo is a Chinese-American computer scientist,the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He is interested in artificial intelligence,data science and computer vision.
Sheila McIlraith is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science,University of Toronto,Canada CIFAR AI Chair,and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
