This web page serves as a central directory for the ABE Research Group at Stanford University's Center for Design Research (CDR).

This group strives to bring a practical, application oriented approach to agent technology, in addition to making theoretical in-roads into this field. The majority of our current work is focussed on applying agent-based technology to the engineering design process -- design decision support, concurrent engineering and collaborative design.

The group typically meets every week during which the members present research results, seek advice and discuss relevant topics. The goal of the meeting is to help students achieve a better understanding of the theory and implementation of agent-based solutions to engineering problems.

For a quick overview of agent concepts, refer to the article Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence by Charles Petrie.

Here is a list of projects related to the ABE group. These projects are partially funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA and CDR Industrial Partners.

• A Design Interface for 3D Manufacturing
• Rapid Virtual and Physical Prototyping
• Design Space Colonization
  • ProcessLink
  • Process Open Description System
  • Design Journal
• Super Design Technology (Toshiba)

• Mike Binnard
• Mark Cutkosky
• Heecheol Jeon
• Toshiki Mori
• Masanori Ozawa
• Charles Petrie
• Sanjay Rajagopalan
• Bill Wood
• Maria Yang

Some interesting related links:

• Concur Home Page.
• ME 394.
• Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory
• Stanford Logic Group
• Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center
• Intelligent Software Agents Home Page
• SHADE Project
• DAI and MAS Archive
• UMass DAI Laboratory