Dr. Jens Pohl holds the positions of Professor of Architecture, Executive Director of the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC, www.cadrc.calpoly.edu), and Graduate Studies Coordinator, in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, California, US. Since 2002 he also holds the positions of Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, CDM Technologies, Inc., a California Corporation (www.cdmtech.com). Professor Pohl was born in Germany and immigrated with his family to Australia at the age of 11. He received his formal education in Australia with degrees in Architecture and Architectural Science: B.Arch. (University of Melbourne, 1965) M.Bdg.Sc. and Ph.D. (University of Sydney 1967 and 1970, respectively). Dr. Pohl taught in the School of Building at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, until the end of 1972 and then left for the US where he was appointed to the position of Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly. Following several years of research and consulting activities in the areas of building support services and information systems, Dr. Pohl’s research focus during the past 20 years has centered on the application of distributed artificial intelligence methodologies to decision-support systems in military command and control, logistical planning and engineering design, and more recently in homeland security. Under his direction the CADRC Center at Cal Poly has over the past decade developed and implemented a significant number of distributed computing applications in which multiple computer-based and human agents collaborate in the solution of complex problems. Foremost among these are the ICDM (Integrated Cooperative Decision Model) and TIRAC (Toolkit for Information Representation and Agent Collaboration) frameworks, which have been applied to engineering and architectural design (industry sponsorship: ICADS - 1986 to 1991), energy conservation (US Dept. of Energy sponsorship: AEDOT - 1992 to 1993), logistical planning (USTRANSCOM and US Army (SDDC) sponsorship: ICODES - 1993 to present, TRANSWAY 2004 to present), military mission planning (US Marine Corps (MCWL and MARCORSYSCOM) sponsorship: FEAT, FEAT4 and IMMACCS - 1994 to present), and facilities management (US Navy (ONR) sponsorship: CIAT, SEAWAY, and SILS - 1996 to present). Since 1993 Dr. Pohl has directed the design, development and implementation of the Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) under the sponsorship of the Army’s Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC). In 1996 ICODES was selected as the ‘migration system’ for ship load-planning by the Joint Transportation CIM Center (JTCC) of USTRANSCOM. Initially designed for Army requirements, ICODES has since been adapted to also accommodate the specific embarkation needs of the Marine Corps within DoD’s concept of a Joint Deployment Community. Dr. Pohl is the author of two patents (US), several books, and more than 80 research papers covering several research areas, including: artificial intelligence; human cognition; collaborative problem solving and decision making; engineering design; and, systems integration. He is a Fellow of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, and was awarded on honorary doctorate by the Institute in August, 1998, during the InterSymp-98 conference held in Baden-Baden, Germany. Dr. Pohl is also a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Building, and a member of IEEE.
Articles
Using BPM as an Interoperability Platform (with Dennis Taylor and Hisham Assal), C2 Journal (2009)
A Translation Engine in Support of Context-Level Interoperability (with Kym J. Pohl), Intelligent Decision Technologies. Special Issue: Ontology Driven Interoperability for Agile Applications using Information Systems: Requirements and Applications for Agent Mediated Decision Support (2008)
The Construction of Two Prototype Multi-Storey Air-Supported Buildings (with James Montero), BUILD International (1973)
To treat a multi-storey building as a large, inflatable container forces the architect to consider...
Multi-Storey Air-Supported Building Construction (with Henry J. Cowan), BUILD International (1972)
Pneumatic Construction Applied to Multistory Buildings (with Peter R. Smith), Progressive Architecture (1970)
Books
The Emergence of Building Science: Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application, The Emergence of Building Science: Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application (2007)
Chapters in Books
Intelligent Software Systems in Historical Context, Decision Support Systems in Agent-Based Intelligent Environments (2005)
The purpose of this chapter is to trace the evolution of intelligent software from data-centric...
Conference Proceedings
Conveyance Estimator Ontology: Conceptual Models and Object Models (with Xiaoshan Pan), Proceedings of InterSymp-2009: Baden-Baden, Germany (2009)
Increasing the Expressiveness of OWL Through Procedural Attachments (with Dennis Taylor), Proceedings of InterSymp-2009: Baden-Baden, Germany (2009)
Pre-Conference Proceedings of the Focus Symposium on Knowledge Management Systems, Proceedings of InterSymp – 2009 21st International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2009)
Intelligent Information Management Tools in a Service-Oriented Software Environment, Proceedings of InterSymp-2009: Baden-Baden, Germany (2009)
This paper draws attention to the increasing need for agile and adaptive software environments that...
The Representation of Context in Computer Software (with Hisham Assal and Kym Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-2009: Baden-Baden, Germany (2009)
Computers do not have the equivalent of a human cognitive system and therefore store data...
Patents
Portable, Linear-Focused Solar Thermal Energy Collecting System (with James C. Fletcher and Charles G. Miller), United States Patent Number: 4,051,834 (1977)
A solar heat collection system is provided by utilizing a line-focusing device that is effectively...
Three-Dimensional Tracking Solar Energy Concentrator and Method For Making Same (with James C. Fletcher and Charles G. Miller), United States Patent Number: 4,046,462 (1977)
Technical Reports
TRANSWAY® (Integrated Computerized Deployment System) Technical and Operational Description (with Joshua Nibecker, Harmony Larsen, Shawn Pan, Clay Warren, Robert Chambers, Dennis Taylor, Ben Weber, James Delos Reyes, Craig Maas, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-21-07 (2007)
The TRANSWAY® software application is an adaptive, ontology-based toolset with collaborative agents, designed to assist...
ICODES (Integrated Computerized Deployment System) Technical and Operational Description (with Cesar Diaz, Billy Waiters, Jerry Pickard, Jason Naylor, Steven Gollery, Patrick McGraw, Michael Huffman, John Fanshier, Matt Parrott, Steve O'Driscoll-Packer, Boone Pendergrast, and Evan Sylvester), CDM Technical Report: CDM-20-06 (2006)
Over the past decade CDM Technologies, Inc. (CDM) in conjunction with the Collaborative Agent Design...
The TIRAC™ Development Toolkit: Technical Description (with Russell Leighton, Lakshmi Vempati, Alan Davis, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-19-05 (2005)
This report provides a technical description of the Toolkit for Information Representation and Agent Collaboration...
The ICDM Development Toolkit: Technical Description (with Russell Leighton, Lakshmi Vempati, Alan Davis, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-18-04 (2004)
This report provides a technical description of the Integrated Cooperative Decision-Making (ICDM) software toolkit for...
The TIRAC™ Development Toolkit: Purpose and Overview (with Kym Jason Pohl, Russell Leighton, Michael Zang, Steven Gollery, and Mark Porczak), CDM Technical Report: CDM-17-04 (2004)
This report provides an overview description of the Toolkit for Information Representation and Agent Collaboration...