Dr Anton Bogdanovych

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Publications
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Biography

Anton Bogdanovych received his PhD from the University of Technology Sydney. He spent three years in Germany working in the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) at the Department of Deduction and Multiagent Systems. He is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Western Sydney, School of Computing and Mathematics.

Dr Bogdanovych has developed the concept of Virtual Institutions, including respective formal representations, supporting algorithms and technological solutions. The work has been an integral part of the strong research collaboration between the e-Markets group and the leading research institution in the field of Artificial Intelligence - IIIA CSIC (the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Research, Spanish Research council, European Union).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Multiagent Systems, Virtual Worlds, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Heritage, Electronic Commerce.

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Grants / Current Projects

Dr Bogdanovych leads the Uruk project aiming at recreating the way of life of ancient Sumerians in the period around 3000 B.C. using Artificial Intelligence. He is also involved with the ARC funded discovery project “It’s all about me” - Anthropomorphized Trading in Believable Electronic Markets, where the concepts of Virtual Institutions and imitation learning play a key role.

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Publications

A. Bogdanovych, J. A. Rodriguez, S. Simoff, A. Cohen and C. Sierra: Developing Virtual Heritage Applications as Normative Multiagent Systems. In proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2009) at the Eights International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, 10-15 May 2009. Accepted for publication.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and M. Esteva: Virtual Institutions Prototype. In proceedings of the Eights International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary, 10-15 May 2009. Accepted for publication.

A. Bogdanovych, M. Bauer and S. Simoff: Recognizing Customers' Mood in 3D Shopping Malls Based on the Trajectories of their Avatars. In proceedings of the 11-th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), LNBIP 24, Milan, Italy, 6-10 May 2009. pp. 747-757.

I. Rodriguez, M. Esteva, C. Sierra, A. Bogdanovych, and S. Simoff: Intelligent Objects to Facilitate Human Participation in Virtual Institutions. In proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Sydney, Australia, 9-12 December 2008. pp. 196 - 199.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and M. Esteva: Virtual Institutions: Normative Environments Facilitating Imitation Learning in Virtual Agents. In proceedings of the 8-th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008), Lecture Notes for Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 456 - 464.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and M. Esteva: Normative Virtual Environments: Integrating Physical and Virtual under the One Umbrella. In proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (IC-Soft 2008), Porto, Portugal, 5-8 July 2008, pp. 233 - 236.

A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, S. Simoff, C. Sierra and H. Berger: A Methodology for Developing Multiagent Systems as 3D Electronic Institutions. Book Chapter in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4951/2008, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, pp. 103-117.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and M. Esteva: Training Believable Agents in 3D Electronic Business Environments Using Recursive-Arc Graphs. In proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (IC-Soft 2008), Porto, Portugal, 5-8 July 2008, pp. 339 - 345.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff, M. Esteva and J. Debenham: Teaching Autonomous Agents to Move in a Believable Manner within Virtual Institutions. In proceedings of the Second IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2008), Milano, Italy, 7-10 September 2008.

A. Bogdanovych: Virtual Institutions. PhD Thesis, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. 2007.

A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, S. Simoff, and C. Sierra: Teaching Human-like Movements to Autonomous Agents via Implicit Training. In proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4722, Paris, France, 2007, pp. 356-357.

M. Ancona, S. Drago, G. Quercini and A. Bogdanovych: Rectangular Dualization of Biconnected Planar Graphs in Linear Time and Related Applications. Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Italy, Vol. 2, World Scientific editor, 2007.

A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, S. Simoff, C. Sierra and H. Berger. A Methodology for 3D Electronic Institutions. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'07), Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 14-18 2007.

S. Drago, A. Bogdanovych, M. Ancona, S. Simoff, H. Berger and C. Sierra. From Graphs to Euclidean Virtual Worlds: Visualization of 3D Electronic Institutions. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Australasian Computer Science Conference. 29th January to 2nd February, 2007, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Australian Computer Society Inc. December 2006. ISBN: 1-920-68243-0. pp. 25-33.

A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, N. Gu, S. Simoff, M.L. Maher and G. Smith. The Role of Online Travel Agents in the Experience Economy. In WiP Proceedings of the 14-th International Conference on Information Technology in Tourism (ENTER 2007), Ljubljana, Slovenia, January 24-26 2007. Axon Imprint 2006, UK. ISBN: 978-0-9553276-2-9. pp. 81-91.

H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and C. Sierra. Opening New Dimension for e-Tourism. Special Issue: Virtual Reality in the e-Society, Virtual Reality, Springer London. 2006. ISSN: 1359-4338.

H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff and C. Sierra. Playing the e-Business Game in 3D Virtual Worlds. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI 2006), Sydney, Australia November 20-24, 2006, ISBN: 1-59593-545-2.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Drago: Euclidean Representation of 3D Electronic Institutions: Automatic Generation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2006), Venice, Italy, May 23-26 2006, ACM Press 2006. ISBN:1-59593-353-0. pp. 449 – 452.

A. Bogdanovych, H. Berger, S. Simoff and C. Sierra: Travel Agents vs. Online Booking: Tackling the Shortcomings of Nowadays Online Tourism Portals. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Technologies in Tourism (ENTER'06), Lausanne, Switzerland, Springer 2006. ISBN: 3-211-30987-X. pp. 418-428.

A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff, C. Sierra and H. Berger: Implicit Training of Virtual Shopping Assistants in 3D Electronic Instituions. In Proceedings of the e-Commerce 2005 Conference (EC 2005), Porto, Portugal, December 15–17, 2005. ISBN: 972-8924-06-2. pp. 50-57.

A. Bogdanovych, H. Berger, C. Sierra and S. Simoff: Narrowing the Gap between Humans and Agents in E-Commerce: 3D Electronic Institutions. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web'05), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3590, Springer 2005. ISSN: 0302-9743, pp. 128-137.

A. Bogdanovych, H. Berger, C. Sierra, S. Simoff: Humans and Agents in 3D Electronic Institutions. Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, Netherlands, ACM Press 2005. ISBN:1-59593-093-0, pp. 1093-1094.

A. Bogdanovych, H. Berger, S. Simoff and C. Sierra: E-Commerce Environments as 3D Electronic Institutions. Proceedings of the e-Commerce 2004 conference (EC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. ISBN: 972-98947-8-7, pp. 237-242.

A. Bogdanovych, H. Berger, S. Simoff and C. Sierra: 3D Electronic Institutions: Social Interfaces for E-Commerce. In 2nd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2004), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

I. Zinnikus, A. Bogdanovich, and R. Schaefer: An Ontology Based Recommendation System for Elderly and Disabled Persons. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems (ABIS 2002). Hannover, Germany 2002.

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