Overview on CASOS Projects
Within CASOS we attempt to understand and formally model two distinct, but complementary types of phenomena:
- Human groups, organizations, institutions or society, which are universally informatted and continually acquire, manipulate, and produce information (and possibly other material goods) through the joint, and interlocked activities of people and automated information technologies.
- The artificial computational system, which is generally comprised of multiple distributed agents who can mutually influence, constrain and support each other as they try to manage and manipulate the knowledge, communication and interaction networks in which they are embedded.
Currently we are working on multiple research initiatives in each of these areas:
- Adaptation and Evolution:
Understanding how multi-agent systems learn, adapt, evolve and change. Systems examined include groups, organizations, markets, institutions, and societies. Artificial organizations. Artificial societies. Dynamic Network analysis. - Validation and Analysis:
Developing tools and procedures for the computer assisted intelligent validation and analysis of computational models of distributed agent systems. - Social and Organizational Networks:
Developing simulation and network based tools and metrics that can be used within and among organizations to better measure and manage the interlocked activities of people and intelligent technologies in terms of their interaction and knowledge networks.
Knowledge management. - Electronic Commerce:
Utilizing agent based models and network analysis to develop tools to facilitate and evaluate electronic commerce. - Vulnerability Analysis:
Developing simulation and dynamic network models for critical infrastructure analysis, bio-terrorism, network destabilization, denial of service attacks, and information security.