Amr Ahmed got his BSc amd MSc in Computer Engineering From Cairo University, Egypt. He then joined UIUC on Jan. 2003 and was a Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science Department Until 2005.

During his stay at UIUC, he was interested in in agents, Multi-agent systems, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. He worked on the Task project.

Select publications

Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "Efficient Communication in Multi-Agent Systems," Software Engineering for Scale Multi-Agent Systems III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3390, Springer-Verlag, pp. 236-253, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Ahmed, Amr, Abhilash Patel, Tom Brown, MyungJoo Ham, Myeong-Wuk Jang, Gul Agha. "Task Assignment for a Physical Agent Team via a Dynamic Forward/Reverse Auction Mechanism," The International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05: Modeling, Evolutions and Engineering, pp. 311-317, April 18 - 21, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "A Flexible Coordination Framework for Application-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokering Services," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2430, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April, 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha. "ATSpace: A Middle Agent to Support Application-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokering Services," IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT(Intelligent Agent Technology)-2004, pp. 393-396, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
Ahmed, Amr, Nevin Darwish. "GTPOT-RL For Multiagent Teamwork," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Vol 50, No 3, June 2003, pp. 537-552. , 2003. [bib]
Ahmed, Amr. "Reinforcement Learning for Multi-agent Teamwork," MSc. thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, August, 2002. [bib]