Sverker Janson

Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at SICS; researcher in Agent-Based Systems; Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uppsala University

Projects and activities; see, e.g., TAC and eTrading; EU FP6 EoI eTrading (annex 3)

Publications; see, e.g., trading agents, agent-based markets, soft security, concurrent constraint programming

Popular science in Swedish, e.g., smartare e-handel and internet om 20 år

My blog: Sverker Janson's blog

Contact: sverker@sics.se, phone +46 70 5443354, fax +46 8 7517230, SICS addresses

At sea outside Singö (in the Roslagen archipelago) with my sons Axel and Adam and my wife Kia

We organized the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) from 2002 to 2007; designed the TAC Supply Chain Management (SCM) competition; and provide servers and agentware for both TAC Classic and TAC SCM

Our spin-off company BotBox offers software for Internet information monitoring; feel free to download BotBox Personal Assistant (30 day trial)

Founding partner of the Etrading Europe consortium on advanced methods of electronic trading for B2B and public procurement; see our EU FP6 Expression of Interest (EoI) (annex 3)

MARKETSPACE
SICS MarketSpace is an agent-based framework for automating Internet commerce; see a paper, a talk, and feel free to contact us for getting various codes

This general survey of agents research and technology, while not actively maintained, may still be somewhat useful; see also this general agents talk

AKL
We designed and implemented AKL, a programming language for multiagent intelligent systems based on the concurrent constraint programming paradigm; feel free to download the programming system, which should compile on any Solaris system; see also the Penny parallelized AKL system

Happy user of SpamAssassin since August 19, 2002