Research Topics

The research topics in the area of Agent Mining are quite diverse and ubiquitous. In our review, they may be classified into the following major streams of broad directions.

 A list of topics of research and development on AMII, drafted by Longbing Cao, can be downloaded here .

Agent Mining Foundation
- Challenges and prospects
- Research map and theoretical underpinnings
- Theoretical foundation
- Formal methods
- Frameworks, approaches and tools

MultiAgent-Driven Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- MultiAgent data mining infrastructure and architecture
- MultiAgent data mining process modeling and management
- MultiAgent data mining project management
- MultiAgent interactive data mining infrastructure
- MultiAgent automated data learning
- MultiAgent cloud computing
- MultiAgent distributed data mining
- MultiAgent dynamic mining
- MultiAgent grid computing
- MultiAgent interactive data mining
- MultiAgent online mining
- MultiAgent mobility mining
- MultiAgent multiple data source mining
- MultiAgent ontology mining
- MultiAgent parallel data mining
- MultiAgent peer-to-peer mining
- MultiAgent self-organizing mining
- MultiAgent text mining
- MultiAgent visual data mining
- MultiAgent web mining

Data Mining-Driven Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
- Data mining-driven MAS adaptation
- Data mining-driven MAS behavior analysis
- Data mining-driven MAS communication
- Data mining-driven MAS coordination
- Data mining-driven MAS dispatching
- Data mining-driven MAS distributed learning
- Data mining-driven MAS evolution
- Data mining-driven MAS learning
- Data mining-driven MAS negotiation
- Data mining-driven MAS optimization
- Data mining-driven MAS planning
- Data mining-driven MAS reasoning
- Data mining-driven MAS recommendation
- Data mining-driven MAS reputation/risk/trust analysis
- Data mining-driven self-organized and self-learning MAS
- Data mining-driven user modeling and servicing

Mutual Enhancement Issues in Agent Mining
- Actionable capability
- Constraints
- Domain knowledge and intelligence
- Dynamic, online and ad-hoc issues
- Human role and intelligence
- Human-system interaction
- Infrastructure and architecture problems
- Intelligence metasynthesis
- Knowledge management
- Lifecycle and process management
- Networking and connection
- Nonfunctional issues
- Ontology and semantic issues
- Organizational factors
- Reliability, reputation, risk, privacy, security and trust
- Services
- Social factors
- Ubiquitous intelligence

MultiAgent-Driven Data Processing
- MultiAgent data coordination
- MultiAgent data extraction
- MultiAgent data integration
- MultiAgent data management
- MultiAgent data monitoring
- MultiAgent data processing and preparation
- MultiAgent data query
- Multiagent data warehousing

MultiAgent-Driven Information Processing
- MultiAgent domain intelligence involvement
- MultiAgent human-mining cooperation
- MultiAgent enterprise application integration
- Multiagent information gathering/retrieval
- MultiAgent message passing and share
- MultiAgent pattern analysis
- MultiAgent service-oriented computing

Emergent Agent Mining Organizations and Applications
- Agent-mining simulation systems and services
- Artificial systems and services
- Bioinformatic applications and services
- Biometric applications and services
- Engineering applications and services
- Financial applications and services (trading agents)
- Governmental applications and services
- Industry applications and services
- Mining multiagent data
- Mobile business services
- Network applications and services
- Scientific applications and services
- Social applications and services
- Ubiquitous intelligence involvement
- Ubiquitous intelligent applications
- Web and online applications and services

Agent Mining Method/System Performance Evaluation
- Performance evaluation methodologies
- Performance evaluation strategies and approaches
- Performance benchmarking
- Performance metrics
- Performance evaluation testbeds
- Performance evaluation frameworks and tools
- Cost, benefit and risk in agent mining
- Mobility in agent mining
- Reliability and dependability in agent mining
- Trust in agent mining
- Privacy in agent mining
- Reputation in agent mining