School of Engineering Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering
 Dr. Xiaocong (Simon) Fan
 Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Dr. Fan

    Penn State Behrend
    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 159
    Phone: (814) 898-6562
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: xfan@psu.edu

Xiaocong Fan
Research

Research Interests    

  • Human-Centric Agent-Based Collaborative Computing
    • Context-reflection in human-agent collaboration
    • Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems
    • Human-Trustable Autonomy
    • Cognitive modeling, Cognitive Aids for Decision Making Teams
    • Human-Agent Communication
  • Intelligence/Knowledge Management
    • Large-scale Intelligence Mining in Bioinformatics, health informatics
    • Knowledge Management
    • Context-driven Information Sharing
  • Agent-oriented Software Engineering
    • Software Architectures for Information/Knowledge-intensive domains
    • Service-Oriented Architecture
    • Semantic Web-based Agent Services

Patents

  • R-CAST: Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork with Shared RPD Process (Co-Inventor). U.S. patent application Serial No. 11/181,146 (pending)

Funded Research Projects

  • Title: RPD-Enabled Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (2006 – 2007, Co-PI, 150K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab: Under Advanced Decision Architecture (ADA) of Collaborative Technology Alliance(CTA)
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