Joel W. Reed
Applied Software Engineering Research Group
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Joel has worked on several projects at ORNL. These include the VIPAR Project, The MABES Project, and the Collaborative Management Environment Project.

Joel is a researcher on the The Virtual Information Processing Agent Research (VIPAR) project. The VIPAR project explores how a group of agents can monitor online newspaper sites, collect information from them, organize the information and present it to users in a graphical format. Technology developed in the VIPAR project has been used in several other projects. The CIPHER project uses VIPAR technology to summarize and present suspicious computer network traffic. The SDM project uses VIPAR technology to reduce, collect, and present a massive distributed dataset from a large astrophysics simulation. This research has resulted in several division awards and two software patents.

The Manufacturing Agent-based Emulation System (MABES) is a system that facilitates "what-if" modeling of manufacturing cells. MABES was used to model a portion of the F-16 manufacturing process. This research resulted in software patent that subsequently was licensed by a private company.

The Collaborative Management Environment project's goal was to create a environment to manage and analyze research funding across the National Laboratory Complex. This research led to the PME system which was adopted by DOE. Joel received an award from the Deparment of Energy for his contributions to this project.