Intelligent Software Agent Technology Dr Thomas E Potok

Intelligent Software Agent Technology Dr. Thomas E. Potok Collaborative Technologies Group Leader Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Agent Technology Trend TS N GE A Internet Telephone Face to Face Tim Berners-Lee – “The Semantic Web… will open up the knowledge and workings of humankind to meaningful analysis by software agents, providing a new class of tools by which we can live, work and learn together” “The Semantic Web” Scientific American 5/2001 2

Successful Projects VIPAR Knowledge Discovery }We have extensive expertise in Supply Chain Management Agent System agent development Manufacturing Emulation Agent System }Began working with agent Collaborative Decision Support System technologies in 1980 s Neural Nets for Recovery Boiler Control Neural Nets for Bankruptcy Prediction Neural Nets for Spring-back Prediction Collaborative Design System Neural Nets for Resistance. Spot Welding Neural Nets for Material Mix Optimization Genetic Algorithms for Chemical Synthesis Knowledge-based Systems - Manufacturing Advisors Knowledge-based Systems for Constructability Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments Knowledge-based Computer Systems Calibration 1985 1990 1995 }Over 10 successful projects within the last 5 years }Collaborations with leading agent experts 2000 3

2001 Papers Authors Title Publication Samatova, Potok, Leuze Vector Space Model for the Generalized Part Families Formation Robotics and Computer Aided Manufacturing, Vol. 17, pp. 73 -80, 2001. Potok, Elmore, Reed, Samatova, Ivezic VIPAR: Advanced Information Agents discovering knowledge in an open and changing environment Fifth International Workshop CIA-2001 on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS, Potok, Elmore, Reed, Samatova An Ontology-based HTML to XML Conversion using Intelligent Agents The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, submitted for publication Reed, Potok, Samatova, Elmore Dynamic Cluster Analysis for Scalable Data Mining The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, submitted for publication Potok, Ivezic, Samatova Agent-based architecture for flexible lean cell design, analysis, and evaluation Proceedings of the 4 th Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing Conference, 2001. submitted for publication 4

2001 DOE Main Proposals Proposal Title Principal Investigators Scientific Data Management Enabling Technology Center Shoshani (LBNL), Gropp (ANL), Critchlow (LLNL), Potok (ORNL), Pu (GT), Vouk (NCSU), Choudhary (NWU), and Gupta (SDSC) Scalable Clustering and Feature Extraction from Massive High-Dimensional Distributed Scientific Data Potok, Samatova, and Ostrouchov Scalable in Silico Integrative Analysis of Metabolic Samatova Networks by Uncovering Simplicity from Complexity Modeling and Simulation of Protein-Protein Interactions Using High Performance Computing and Experimental Data Xu (LSD) 5

Simple Agent Example 2 Days $18. 50 Barnes and Nobel 1 Day $21. 75 1 Day $20. 25 Library 1 Day Free e. Bay Dedicated Agents Amazon B. Dalton Agent, find me the book “War and Peace, ” and I need it tomorrow 1 Day $12. 50 Agent Communities Does the agent understand buying books? Form a plan to buy the book Execute the plan 6

Use of Intelligent Agents at US Pacific Command VIPAR

USPACOM Traditional Approach • Analysts Search 20 -30 papers a day • Manually find the articles on internet • Manually organizing the articles Inside China Unorganized Newspaper Articles Analysts Organized Results NEA Russia Today SEA Jakarta Post Oceania 8

New Intelligent Approach Intelligent Agent Inside China Analysts Economy Russia Today Military Jakarta Post Political Retrieval Agents Vector Perturbation Clustering “Knowledge Bins” 9

VIPAR Architecture Download Agent Whiteboard Agent Text Analysis Agent Cluster Agent Download Agent … Download Agent 10

Clustering: A Simple Example 1. Original and Parsed Documents Divisive 1 5. Euclidean Distance 3. Vector Space Model 6. Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Agglomerati ve 4. Document Similarity 2. Terms Dictionary 2 3 4 6 8 7 7. Phylips tree representation D 1 D 2 D 3 11

VIPAR Example “Nuclear Weapons” Search 9/21/2000 l l l l l Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security India and Pakistan: Troubled relations U. S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road Troops die in Kashmir clashes Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee 12

Manual Knowledge Management “Business as Usual” · Wen Ho Lee 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. · Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security India and Pakistan 6. India and Pakistan: Troubled relations 7. Troops die in Kashmir clashes · IAEA Meeting 8. IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative 9. China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials · U. S. China Trade 10. U. S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road 13

VIPAR Knowledge Management Same result, easier to “see” 3 2 v Wen Ho Lee 1. 2. 5 v Clinton Concerned Over Lee Case - Reno On Defensive Asian-Americans Demand White House Action on Lee 5. Wen Ho Lee Clinton Calls For Review Of Lee Secrets Case 4. 1 Wen Ho Lee Spends First Day Savoring Home Delights 3. 4 Lee Case Points up Scientists' Attitude on Security India and Pakistan 6. 7. US China Trade India/Pakistan v India and Pakistan: Troubled relations Troops die in Kashmir clashes IAEA Meeting 8. IAEA Meeting 10 v 7 IAEA Supports Putin Nuclear Power Initiative 9. 6 China Rejects Moves to Tighten Regulation of Nuclear Materials U. S. China Trade 10. 8 9 U. S. China Trade Vote Milestone on Rocky Road 14

VIPAR Knowledge Discovery Search on “Bin Laden” on 1/9/2001 · Yemen bomb suspects held - The Yemeni authorities say they have arrested several Islamic militants in connection with the bombing of a US warship in which 17 sailors died. - Discovered Articles · Attractive base for anti-West Islamists - For impoverished, underdeveloped Yemen, political violence is like a disease that won't go away. · Cohen seeks review of Cole probe - Defense Secretary William Cohen plans to order a new review to determine if commanders in the Gulf region should be held accountable … · US reopens Rome embassy - The United States has reopened its Rome embassy which was closed since Friday following a world-wide caution against possible threats. · Pakistan warns of Afghan exodus - 50, 000 Afghans have arrived in Pakistan this year alone 15

Endorsements · US Pacific Command’s CINC Admiral Blair - “A tremendously successful project” - “Software agents … lead to substantially improved analytical products. ” · US Pacific Command’s Science and Technology Advisor - “hit a grand slam home run!” - “first time we've seen information discovery and knowledge management software working here at HQ USCINCPAC operationally. ” 16

VIPAR is only one of our projects VIPAR Knowledge Discovery }We have extensive expertise in Supply Chain Management Agent System agent development Manufacturing Emulation Agent System }Began working with agent Collaborative Decision Support System technologies in 1980 s Neural Nets for Recovery Boiler Control Neural Nets for Bankruptcy Prediction Neural Nets for Spring-back Prediction Collaborative Design System Neural Nets for Resistance. Spot Welding Neural Nets for Material Mix Optimization Genetic Algorithms for Chemical Synthesis Knowledge-based Systems - Manufacturing Advisors Knowledge-based Systems for Constructability Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments Knowledge-based Computer Systems Calibration 1985 1990 1995 }Over 10 successful projects within the last 5 years }Collaborations with leading agent experts 2000 17

Summary · Intelligent agents are a significant future technology direction · We have a significant progression of deployed agent systems and research to our credit · We have ringing endorsements regarding the success of our systems and research · We look forward to the next step… 18