James C. Boerkoel Jr.
Ph.D. Candidate, Research Assistant
Distributed Intellegent Agents Group - Advisor: Ed Durfee
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan
Email: boerkoel[at]umich[dot]edu

Education:
Masters of Science, Computer Science and Engineering - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI, August 2008
Bachelors of Science, Mathematics, Computer Science - Hope College - Holland, MI, December 2005

Research Interests:
My research focuses on building foundational technologies for computational agents that can assist people in successfully managing their schedules, as well as coordinate their schedules with those of other agents. In particular, I am working on developing algorithms for efficiently solving constraint-based representations of scheduling problems both in single-agent (centralized) and multiagent (distributed) frameworks. More generally, I am interested in applying artificial intelligence to solve problems that are particular to marginalized sectors of the world population.

Links: Assistive Technology, Constraint-Based Reasoning, Multiagent Systems, My Research Abstract

Select Publications:

Boerkoel, J. and Durfee E. 2009. Evaluating Hybrid Constraint Tightening for Scheduling Agents, In Proc. Of AAMAS 2009.

Boerkoel, J. and Durfee, E. 2008. Hybrid Constraint Tightening for Hybrid Constraint Scheduling. In Proc. Of AAAI-2008, 1446-1449.