5:00 - 7:00           Check-in/Registration & Swarm Software Demonstration Stations,

                            Muldoon Atrium in the Dolan Center for Science and Technology

 

                            After checking in, visit with swarm software developers and

                           view their systems at locations through the Atrium

 

                            BuggerLab

                                      Presenter: E. Talvitie, Oberlin University, Oberlin, OH, USA

 

                            Java SWarm Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (JSWEEP)

                                       Presenter: M. Kovacina, Orbital Research, Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA

 

                           Virtual Human Swarm System (VHS)

                                        Presenters: J. Murton, K. Zajac, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

 

                           Apple Orchard - A swarm of wireless P2P networked Imacs

                                        Presenters: J. Schatz, P. Cloutier, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

                            Swarm-based Graph Coloring Algorithms
                                         Presenter: J. Shifflet, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

7:00 - 7:30           Light Meal

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7:30 - 7:45           Welcome Address, Donahue Auditorium, in the Dolan Center

                            Dr. Mary Beadle
                                   Dean of the Graduate School at John Carroll University
                                   Cleveland OH, USA

7:45 - 8:30          Keynote Speaker, Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Center

                           Bruce Clough, Technical Area Lead 
                                   Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory
                                   Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton OH, USA

8:00 - 9:00         Check-in/Registration, Muldoon Atrium

9:00 - 11:00       Paper Presentations, Donahue Auditorium

 

9:00 – 9:30       “Using Model Checking to find a Hidden Evader”

                                  C. Bohn, P. Sivilotti, B. Weide

                                  The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

 

9:30 – 10:00     “Discrete Dispersion for Swarms of Robots”

                                  T. Hsiang, M. Sztainberg

                                  Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

          Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago IL, USA

 

10:00 – 10:30   “A Behavioral Model-Based Approach to Constructing Models of Swarm Behaviors”

          R. Kolacinski

          Orbital Research Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA

 

10:30 – 11:00   “Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Process Automation Applications”

                                  P. Appelqvist*, T. Pirttoja, I. Seilonen, A. Halme, K. Koskinen

                                  Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

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11:00 - 12:30  Human Swarm Demonstration and Experiment, Muldoon Atrium

 

                      100+ participants can experience a swarm from the agent's perspective.  Learn how to attempt to

                      achieve high-level goals by only taking actions based on local information.

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1:15 - 2:00      Featured Speaker, Donahue Auditorium

                      Dr. Roger Quinn, Director
                                  Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University
                                  Cleveland OH, USA

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2:00 - 5:30       Paper Presentations, Donahue Auditorium

 

2:00 – 2:30       “Using Agent-Based Modeling in the Exploration of Self-Organizing Neural Networks”

                                  T. Schoenharl, G. Madey

                                  University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

 

2:30 – 3:00       “Genetic Algorithm – Fuzzy Logic System for a Logistics Scheduling Problem”

                                  L. Yang, R. Eberhart   

                                  Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), IN, USA

 

3:00 – 3:30       “Position Control in Clustering Systems”

                                  S. Kazadi

                                  Jisan Research Institute, Pasadena CA, USA

 

3:30 – 4:00       “Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning”

          R. Kretchmar, T. Bressoud

          Denison University, Granville, OH, USA

 

4:00 – 4:30       “Crucial Factors Affecting Decentralized Multirobot Learning in an Object Manipulation Task”

                                  P. Tangamchit, J. Dolan, P. Khosla

                                  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

4:30 – 5:00     “Swarm Rule-base Development using Genetic Programming Techniques”

          M. Kovacina

          Orbital Research Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA

 

5:00 – 5:30       “Reconsidering Extreme Programming as a Swarm Activity”

                                  D. Palmer

                                  John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA