Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute Explained

Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Type:Incentive Pty. Ltd.
Industry:Intelligent agent
Foundation:1988
Location:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (Australian AI Institute, AAII, or A2I2) was a government-funded research and development laboratory for investigating and commercialising artificial intelligence (AI), specifically intelligent software agents, from 1988 until 1999. Among its software and commercial projects which were produced by the AAII were a procedural reasoning system (PRS); distributed multi-agent reasoning system (dMARS); and a Smart Whole AiR Mission Model (SWARMM).

History

The Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) was started in 1988 as an initiative by the Hawke government. It was backed by support from the Computer Power Group, SRI International, and the Victorian State Government. The director of the group was Michael Georgeff who came from SRI, contributing his experience with the PRS and vision in the domain of intelligent agents.

It was located in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton before moving to more spacious premises in the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria. At its peak it had more than 40 staff and took up two floors of an office building on the corner of Latrobe and Russell Streets.

In the late 1990s, the AAII spun out Agentis International (Agentis Business Solutions) to address the commercialisation of the developed technology. Another company, Agent Oriented Software (AOS) was formed by a number of ex-AAII staff to pursue agent technology developing JACK Intelligent Agents.

The AAII closed in 1999. After the AAII shutdown, those staff that remained and the intellectual property were transferred to Agentis International.

Projects

This section summarises a selection of the software and commercial projects that came out of the AAII:

Technical notes

Over the course of its existence, the AAII released more than 75 of public technical notes.[<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990428115401/http://www.aaii.oz.au/research/techreports/tnlist.html]. This section lists a selection of these notes.

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kuwata, Y. . Intelligent Adaptive Control: Industrial Applications . Intelligent Techniques in Air Traffic Management . Lakhmi C. . Jain . Clarence W. . de Silva . Sugimoto . 1998 . CRC Press . 978-0849398056 . 393 . https://books.google.com/books?id=nbMjiXF6PRMC . 10 September 2015.