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SUMMARY:ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smar
 t grid - Alex Rogers\, University of Southampton
DTSTART:20120316T140000Z
DTEND:20120316T150000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:The ORCHID project at the Universities of Southampton\, Oxford
  and Nottingham is addressing the challenge of building computational syst
 ems in which software agents and people interact. In this talk\, I'll give
  a brief overview of the project and then present two concrete examples of
  work to date. First\, that of building a decentralised system for coordin
 ating unmanned autonomous vehicles that uses loopy belief propagation and 
 the max-sum algorithm to assign tasks to UAV\, and second\, that of buildi
 ng a home energy management agent that mixes both physical and statistical
  models of the thermal properties of a home\, in order to provide househol
 ds with realtime feedback about heating costs.
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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