Open Systems Laboratory

Office address: Office # 2107 Siebel Center for Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 201 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana IL 61801-2302 Mailing address: MC 258 Office phone: (217) 244-1976 E-mail: mwjanggmailcom Home page: http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~mjang

Research Interests:
Actor Model, Collaborative Agent, Multi-Agent System, Distributed Computing, and Artificial Intelligence

Software:
The Actor Architecture (AA) - The Actor Architecture (AA) is an actor-based agent framework fully implemented in Java language. AA consists of AA platforms and actor library: AA platforms are actor execution environments where actors across distributed systems operate and communicate with other actors; and an actor library are used to develop actors which will be executed on AA. AA provides the fundamental middleware services for multi-agent systems.

Select publications

1. Jang, Myeong-Wuk. "Efficient Communication and Coordination for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006. [pdf] [bib]
2. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Adaptive Agent Allocation for Massivley Multi-agent Applications," Massively Multi-Agent Systems I, LNCS(LNAI) 3446, Springer-Verlag, pp. 25-39, 2005. [bib]
3. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Agent Framework Services to Reduce Agent Communication Overhead in Large-scale Agent-based Simulations," Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Accepted in October), 2005. [bib]
4. 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]
5. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Scalable Agent Distribution Mechanisms for Large-Scale UAV Simulations," The International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05: Scalable Agents Session, pp. 85-90, April 18-21, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. 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]
9. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "Dynamic Agent Allocation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Applications," International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 19-33, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
10. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Gul Agha. "On Efficient Communication and Service Agent Discovery in Multi-agent Systems," Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS '04), pp. 27-33, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24-25, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
11. Jang, Myeong-Wuk, Smitha Reddy, Predrag Tosic, Liping Chen, Gul Agha. "An Actor-based Simulation for Studying UAV Coordination," 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003), pp. 593-601, Delft, The Netherlands, October 26-29, 2003. [pdf] [bib]
12. Tosic, Predrag, Myeong-Wuk Jang, Smitha Reddy, Joshua Chia, Liping Chen, Gul Agha. "Modeling a System of UAVs on a Mission," Proc. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI '03), pp. 508-514, July 27-30, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]