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
Preconference Proceedings of the Focus Symposium on Intelligent Information Management Systems, Proceedings of InterSymp - 2011 23rd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2011)
Intelligent Software for Ecological Building Design (with Hisham Assal and Kym J. Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-2010: Baden-Baden, Germany (2010)
Building design is a complex process because of the number of elements and issues involved...
Preconference Proceedings on Advances in Adaptive Planning Capabilities, Proceedings of InterSymp – 2010 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Baden-Baden, Germany (2010)
A Method to Implement Location Transparency in a Web Service Environment (with Xiaoshan Pan), Proceedings of InterSymp-2010: Baden-Baden, Germany (2010)
Location transparency offers some significant benefits in the areas of middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and...
On the Road to Intelligent Web Applications (with Hisham Assal and Kym J. Pohl), Proceedings of InterSymp-2010: Baden-Baden, Germany (2010)
Increasing access to data sources on the Internet offers expanding opportunities for equipping intelligent applications...
Books
The Emergence of Building Science: Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application, The Emergence of Building Science: Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application (2007)
The design of buildings and the broader field of environmental design are often described as...
Contributions to 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...
Presentations
An Intelligent Supply Chain Planning and Execution Environment, Proceedings of InterSymp-2011: Baden-Baden, Germany (2011)
Logistic planning and execution processes in a supply-chain are subject to a high level of...
The Role of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Intuition, Proceedings of InterSymp-2011: Baden-Baden, Germany (2011)
In recognizing the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as the principal drivers of economic growth,...
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)
A tracking three-dimensional solar energy concentrator is provided by a stretched aluminized polymeric membrane supported...