Sarosh Talukdar

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Internet-Based Design and Manufacturing Increasing numbers of design and manufacturing tasks will be tackled by large, widely distributed teams of people, computer-based agents and manufacturing facilities. This project is developing ways by which the members of such teams can collaborate over the Internet, benefiting from its coverage without being compromised by its failings. Asynchronous Teams (Wide-Spectrum Organizations) Organizations in which agents are allowed to act autonomously can react faster and are more robust than hierarchic, centrally controlled organizations. This project has been developing techniques and rules by which autonomous agents can cooperate (help one another) and learn (automatically transform experience into improved competence). A number of off-line optimizati