Roberto Flores
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Dr. Roberto Flores is a faculty member of the Department of Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering. He teaches classes and conducts labs related to Computer Science. He is possessed of an inner inquisitiveness coupled with an interest in human issues. Perhaps this channels effectively into his research. His work is in a field called Agent Communication, involving such issues as trust management, motivation, and communication among systems. It appears, but perhaps only he may know (hint: joke), that this is something like assuming computers are endowed with the human quality of self-centrism. Because this is a bit obscure, here is his explanation from his webpage (see link below): "My primary research interest is in multiagent systems, which are computer systems made out of loosely coupled software programs that interact to achieve their (individual or collective) objectives. One of the challenges in this area is to define how communicational interactions (called conversations) evolve over time. Negotiating the advance of the state of social commitments is one way to indicate this evolution -- where a social commitment indicates that one of the agents is responsible to do a performance advancing the interaction. The use of social commitments has interesting practical implications, since their fulfillment (or lack thereof) involve the possible imposition of rewards (or sanctions) which impact reputation and the likeliness of being considered as a reliable partner in future interactions." He speaks Spanish natively, English fluently, and an unknown number of programming languages, as well. His office can be found in Gosnold: One should enter the right-hand doors to the main Gosnold building, walk around the hallway until she or he comes to a door entitled Dr. Riedl, and turning about and facing across the hallway, this person will see a sort of cove of offices separated by a single doorway. In here and to the left lies his office. |
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See Also
- His PCSE Webpage: Portal to information about the classes his is teaching, his research, and how to get in touch with him, in particular.
