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Jens G. Pohl

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

• Professor, Architecture
• Executive Director, Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC)
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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. 

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