DUCO FERRO

Affiliation (beside Almende):

ASK Community Systems

Research project:

BRIDGE

Research topics:

Agent-based communication support for networks of people in incident rich domains such as security firms, police, health care and the military.

Agents representing people or entities, such as buildings or cars, exchange information/preferences to recommend last-minute incident related communication. Specifically, the concept of similarities between grounded agent profiles: evolving similarity networks and continuous learning of similarity metrics by evolutionary strategies.

Two-sided matchmaking and coalition formation models for setting up communication sessions are studied in order to deal with conflicting preferences.

Keywords:

Evolving complex networks, communication networks, recommender technology, incident management, Professional Task Setting with Incidents, instance-based learning, kernel-based methods, similarity metrics, evolutionary strategies.

Biography:

Duco N. Ferro started as a PhD candidate at Almende and Delft University of Technology in 2006, after having done an internship for the research project (Luister/Listen) at Almende for his master degree in Artificial Intelligence (VU University Amsterdam) on the topic of self-organizing matchmaking in home health care.

Duco started his PhD work on the Cybernetic Incident Management project (CIM), for which he developed an agent-based communication support system that was tested during a pilot study in cooperation with Trigion Security. He continued his work on agent-based communication support in the ICIS and Zora projects.

Currently, Duco is working both for Almende and for daughter company ASK Community Systems. For Almende, he works as a researcher on the BRIDGE project. At ACS, Duco is a Technology Consultant, focusing mainly on the incident management domain.

Publications:

2009

Ferro, D.N., Jonker C.M. and Salden A.H. (2009). The Windmill Method for Setting up Support for Resolving Sparse Incidents in Communication Networks. In: Proceedings of the 21th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'09), (extended abstract).

Ferro, D. N. and Jonker, C. M. (2009). Filtering Algorithm for Agent-Based Incident Communication Support in Mobile Human Surveillance. In: Proceedings of the 21th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'09), (extended abstract).

Ferro, D.N., Hoogendoorn, M., and Jonker, C.M., (2009). Ontology-Based Business Activity Monitoring Agent. In: Proceedings of the 21th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC'09, (extended abstract)

Ferro, D.N., Jonker C.M. and Salden A.H. (2009). The Windmill Method for Setting up Support for Resolving Sparse Incidents in Communication Networks. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks(CASoN 2009).

2008

Ferro, D.N., Hoogendoorn, M., and Jonker, C.M., (2008). Ontology-Based Business Activity Monitoring Agent. In: Jain, L. et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008), pp. 491-495, 2008.

Ferro D.N. and Salden, A.H. (2008). Self-organizing mobile surveillance security networks. In: Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC'08, (extended abstract)

Ferro, D. N. and Jonker, C. M. (2008). Filtering Algorithm for Agent-Based Incident Communication Support in Mobile Human Surveillance. In: Proceedings of the 6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies(Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23 - 26, 2008). R.Bergmann,G. Lindemann, and S. Kirn, Eds. Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5244. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 49-60.

2007

D.N. Ferro and A. H. Salden, (2007). Self-organizing mobile surveillance security networks. In: Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Bio Inspired mOdels of NEtwork, Information and Computing Systems BIONETICS 2007, Budapest, Hungary, December 10 - 13

A.H. Salden and D.N. Ferro (2007). Self-Organized Critical Networks. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2007), Boston, US, October 28-November 2, 2007.

D. N. Ferro, A.H. Salden and J. M. Valk, (2007). A Robust Coalition Formation Framework for Mobile Surveillance Incident Management. In: Proceeding of the 4th Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM'07 (Eds. B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt and C. Nieuwenhuis), pp. 479-488.

2006

J.M. Valk and D. N. Ferro, (2006). A generalized matching framework, combining matchmaking and coalition formation. In: Proceedings of the 18th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence BNAIC‘06(Eds. P. Schobben,W. Vanhoof and G. Schwanen), pp. 315–322.