Our Goal
The Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems is an international special interest group of specialists active in the research and applications of collaborative agent-based systems. Key application areas include manufacturing and supply chains, and infrastructures for service, energy, transportation, and emergency management systems. The core research topics for these applications include agent architectures, agent intelligence, agent communications, agent collaboration, agent simulation and optimization, and agent human-machine interfaces. An important methodology of distributed intelligent systems is the role-based approach for collaborative agent design.
Join Us
The Distributed Intelligent Systems Technical Committee provides opportunities to continue professional and personal development by:
- Networking with peers and experts in the field
- Keeping current with research and applications
- Exchanging your results with peers prior to publication or commercialization
- Collaborating with experts in the field on significant challenges
- Gaining peer recognition by presenting workshops and tutorials, and contributing articles to publications of the SMC Society
- Demonstrating leadership by organizing tracks and special sessions at conferences sponsored by the SMC Society
TC Leadership
About This TC
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2019
- Organize the 9th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, August 26-28, 2019, Linz, Austria
- Organize the 16th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (IEEE ICNSC 2019), May 9-11, 2019, Banff, Canada. There are 3 keynote speeches, 3 plenary speeches, 70 oral presentations, and over 80 participants from Canada, USA, China, Korea, France, Turkey, Japan, and Italy.
- Organize the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2019), May 6-8, 2019, Porto, Portugal.
- Organize “Tech session 6A: Living Labs and Hardware test facilities” at IEEE SG4SC 2018, Genk, Belgium (SG4SC is an activity from IEEE Smart Grids which is supported by SMCS)
- Organize Discussion – Past, Presence and Future of MAS in Industry on September 27, 2019.
- Help organize 1st International conference on Social Automation (SAC 2019)
- Involvement in IEEE P2660.1 standardization WG (SMCS technical sponsor)
- Organize Special Session on Distributed Adaptive Systems for SMC 2019, received 6 submissions.
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2018
- Co-organize the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, Sept. 3 – 6, 2018.
- Organize the special session on “Distributed Adaptive Systems” at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Miyazaki, Japan, Oct. 2018 (SMC 2018) with 4 papers.
- Organize SMC 2018 Special Session on Intelligent Industrial Systems, with 2 papers.
- Organize SMC 2018 BMI Workshop with 92 accepted papers 8. Organize SMC 2018 Tutorial “Methods and Tools for Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems”.
- Organize the following special events for SMC 2018
a. MoAM-R01 : BMI H12+H30: Human-Machine Systems and Cognitive Cybernetics, 7 papers
b. MoEV-R01 : BMI H28+H30: Brain-Inspired Systems and Unconventional BCI Applications, 6 papers
c. TuAM-R02 : IEEE SMC 2018 Best Paper Finalists, 5 papers
d. TuPM-R02 : IEEE SMC 2018 Best Student Paper Finalists, 5 papers
e. Tu-Fuko : IEEE SMC2018 Women in Engineering and Young Professionals Luncheon and Tea Ceremony, around 30 attendees - Served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 11. Served as Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems.
- Served as Associate Editors of IEEE SMC Magazine. 13. Served as IEEE SMC BoG members.
- Published papers in IEEE SMC Transactions and Magazine.
[1] H. Zhu, “Avoiding Critical Members in a Team by Redundant Assignment,” IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2018 (In Press), DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2018.2827391.
[2] H. Zhu, “Maximizing Group Performance while Minimizing Budget,” IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2018 (In Press), DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2017.2735300.
[3] H. Zhu, Y. Sheng, X.-Z. Zhou, Y. Zhu, “Group Role Assignment with Cooperation and Conflict Factors”, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 48, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 851 – 863.
[4] D. Liu, Y. Yuan, H. Zhu, S. Teng, and C. Huang, “Balance Preferences with Performance in Group Role Assignment”, IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, vol. 48, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 1800 – 1813.
[5] H. Zhu, “Big Data and Collaboration Research: Creating Real Data”, IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Magazine, vol. 4, no. 1, January 2018, pp. 16-19.
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2017
- Webinar on Role-Based Collaboration and the E-CARGO model, offered by Dr. Haibin Zhu, Dec. 6, 2017.
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2016
- 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Calabria, Southern Italy, May 16-18, 2017.
- Special Issue on “Resilient Networks: Modeling, Design, and Applications”, Digital Communications and Networks, to be published in 2017.
- Special sessions on Distributed Adaptive Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2016.
- Special sessions on Behavior Modeling for Intelligent Human-Agent Interactions at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2016.
- Fifth International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security & Privacy, Cappadocia, Turkey, Sept. 2016.
- 2nd Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems at ICAC 2016, Würzburg, Germany, July 2016.
- The 11th IEEE International Workshop on E-Health Systems and Semantic Web, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2016.
- The 9th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, July 2016.
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2015
- Special sessions on Distributed Adaptive Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hong Kong, Oct. 2015.
- Special sessions on Interaction-Centered Analytics and Design for Human-Centric Systems at the annual IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hong Kong, Oct. 2015.
- 7th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, Valencia, Spain, September 2014.
- Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems at ICAC 2015, Grenoble, France, July 2015.
- 10th IEEE International Workshop on E-Health Systems and Semantic Web, Taichung, Taiwan, July 2015.
- 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Sochi, Russia, Sept. 2015.
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2014
- Special sessions on Distributed Adaptive Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, USA, Oct. 2014.
- Tutorial on Adaptive Collaboration Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, USA, Oct. 2014.
- Tutorials on Agent-Based Software Engineering at the International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, USA October 2014.
- IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems, San Diego, CA, USA, October 2014.
- Special Issue on “Industrial Applications of Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 44, no. 3, 2014.
- 9th IEEE International Workshop on E-Health Systems and Semantic Web, Vasteras, Sweden, July 2014.
- 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Glasgow, UK, Sept. 2014.
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2013
- Special session on Distributed Adaptive Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester, UK, Oct. 2013.
- 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 2013.
- IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 2013.
- 6th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2013.
- 8th IEEE International Workshop on E-Health Systems and Semantic Web, Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.
- 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Aksaray, Turkey, Sept. 2013.
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Other Activities
- PC members for the annual IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
- Articles on professional activities of our members for submission to the SMC eNewsletter.
- Technical papers published in the annual IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
- Technical papers published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.
- Technical papers published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
- Technical papers published in IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems.
- Technical papers published in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine.
- Reviewing of articles submitted to IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
- Zafeer Alibhai Accenture Canada, Canada
- Adel M. Alimi University of Sfax, Tunisia
- Fabio Bellifemine Telecom Italia, Italy
- Zhuming Bi Purdue Univ. FortWayne, USA
- Gautam Biswas Vanderbilt University, USA
- Jeff Bradshaw University of West Florida, USA
- Robert W. Brennan University of Calgary, Canada
- Lotzi Bölöni University of Central Florida, USA
- Giacomo Cabri Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Nicola Capodieci University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Atilla Elci Aksaray University, Turkey
- Simon Fan Penn State University, USA
- Amro M. Farid Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi
- Giancarlo Fortino University of Calabria, Italy
- Kenwood H. Hall Rockwell Automation, USA
- Tarek M. Hamdani University of Sfax, Tunisia
- Ingo Hegny Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Ming Hou Defence R&D Canada (DRDC), Canada
- Ilhem Kallel University of Kairouan, Tunisia
- Frank N. Kautzmann III, Real Data, Inc., USA
- Uzay Kaymak Erasmus University, Netherlands
- Carlos C. Insaurralde Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Malamati Louta University of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Goran Martinovic Univ. Osijek Kneza Trpimira, Croatia
- Munir Merdan Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- David Naso Politecnico di Bari, Italy
- Colin Ng Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Jernej Polojnar Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Srini Ramaswamy ABB, USA
- Dorian Sabaz Holonic Technology Innovation, Singapore
- Nasser Sadati University of BC, Canada
- Weiming Shen National Research Council, Canada
- Mohammad Shojafar The University of Padua, Italy
- Ben K.-M. Sim University of Kent, UK
- Ludo Stellingwerff Almende BV, Netherlands
- Thomas Strasser Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Shinksuke Tamura Fukui University, Japan
- Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Mihaela Ulieru Maxeler Technologies, USA
- Paul Valckenaers Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Shengli Wu Univ. of Ulster, UK
- Yu Zhang Trinity University, USA
- Wenbing Zhao Cleveland State University, USA
- Mengchu Zhou New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Alois Zoitl fortiss GmbH, Germany
