University of Malta
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
CSAI Dept.

Agent Technology R & D Group

Scope

To investigate and develop novel agent-based technology and techniques that can be used to provide integrated access to disparate information sources distributed across the Internet as well as basic technologies and toolkits apt to support the realization of agent-based systems in modern telecommunications.

Research Group Members

Dr. Matthew Montebello
Charlie Abela
David Attard
Gillian Attard
Michelle Azzopardi

Research Activities

Supervision of projects individual group members are involved in individually or with industry.

Overview of the Research Group

Technology transfer is of ultimate importance and therefore any industrial partners are always welcome to test and implement agent-based systems in real life.

Related Courses

CSM 212 Artificial Intelligence
CSA 311 Agent Technology
CSA 411 Intelligent Software Agents

Publications

Antoine Aquilina
"A Personal Web Agent to assist with Query Formulation"
B.Sc. I.T. (Hons.) Dissertation,
University of Malta,
2001.

Francis Calleja
"A Virtual Marketplace based on Mobile Agent Technology"
B.Sc. I.T. (Hons.) Dissertation,
University of Malta,
2000.

Matthew Montebello
"PERA - Personal Education Resource Assistant"
Proceeding of the International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU98),
Tenaga, Malaysia,
1998.

Matthew Montebello
"An Evolvable Personal Advisor to Optimise Internet Search Technologies"
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1460, Database and Expert Systems Applications, from the Proceedings of the ninth International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98), pp. 531-540,
Vienna, Austria,
1998.

Matthew Montebello
"A Personal Evolvable Advisor for WWW Knowledge-Based Systems"
Proceedings of the Workshop on Reuse of Web Information, pp. 59-69, held in conjunction with the 7th WWW Conference,
Brisbane, Australia,
1998.

Related Projects

Agent Technology applied to Web Services
- Charlie Abela, David Attard, Michelle Azzopardi.

Mobile Agents over Mobile Devices
- Gillian Attard

To collaborate on research and development in this group

Info for Industrial Partners

Info for potential PostGraduates

Contact details

Dr.Matthew Montebello
E-mail: mmont@cs.um.edu.mt
Phone: 00-356-3290-2132
Fax: 00-356-320539
Office: 409, 3rd. Floor, Computer Science Building

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