1、Dear Prof. James A. Hendler:
I am an undergraduate from Jilin University, one of the top universities in China, majoring in Software engineering. I am extremely interested in the topics about intelligent agent, semantic web. I read your earlier paper "Agents and the Semantic Web", and I was impre
2、ssed by the view that "the integration of agent technology and ontologies could significantly affect the use of Web services". I was also attracted by your study about semantic web agent, the web ontology language OWL. Moreover, the two themes "Semantic Portal Wiki" and "Inference Web" of your TWC a
3、re really what I want to explore, so I really hope that I can join the your "TWC" and do research under your supervision. Will you accept Phd student next year?
Now I do my research on automated-negotiation of intelligence agent in the "Jilin University SoftLab". My research focuses on the bilat
4、eral multi-issue negotiation of intelligent agents. I am working on constructing an opponent model using Reinforcement learning to model the behavior of the negotiation counterpart. I used to cooperate with my teacher and publish one conference paper (third author:" Adaptive Multi-Issue Agent-Based
5、Negotiation Model" in a not so famous International conference. The model tries to capture the opponent preference to improve the negotiation efficiency. And we also finished a negotiation model based on fuzzy inference. Before I join the lab, I won the prize of "Meritorious Winner" in Mathematical
6、Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) in April 2010. And the Second Prize in China in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), and the First Prize in our province. Thanks to the Mathematical Contest, I become familiar with the process of academic research and gain some skills in
7、academic writing, problem-solving, and learn some model mathematical technique like simulated annealing by myself. In addition, I have a strong background in computer science after taking the course of data structure, programming algorithms, database, and computer network, etc. My average score for the major courses is 86.
I do attracted by the excellent work of TWC in semantic web, and admired your fundamental work about the semantic web agent, so I really hope I can have this opportunity to do research under your supervision.
Yours sincerely,
Luyi