The AIC has established a nucleus of long-term projects in the core areas of artificial intelligence. These are organized within the center under several primary research programs, each of which contain a number of smaller research groups. These are described below.

		Bioinformatics Research Group (Learn More) Topics: EcoCyc E. coli encyclopedia, MetaCyc metabolic encyclopedia, Pathway Tools, and BioOntologies Director: Dr Peter D Karp
		Cognitive Computing Group (Learn More) Topics: Cognitive Computing Group Director: Adam Cheyer
		Evolutionary Systems Biology Group (Learn More) Topics: computational representation of biological systems, modeling of molecular and pathway evolution, biomedical ontologies, tools for analyzing genetic and genomic data Director: Dr Paul D Thomas
		Intelligent Operations Management Group Director: Dr Thomas D Garvey Areas of Research: Impact Group directed by Dr Karen L Myers Ontology Management Group directed by Dr Vinay K Chaudhri Radar directed by Dr Michael A. Freed Teambotics Group directed by Dr Charles L Ortiz (Learn More)    Topics: Agents: Multiagent systems, collaborative systems, very large scale multiagent systems, automated negotiation, BDI logics, social systems, emergent behavior, scheduling, planning and monitoring systems, fuzzy systems, approximate reasoning. Robotics: multirobotic systems, 3D robotics, human-robot interfaces, spatial reasoning, distributed sensor networks, realtime embedded AI systems.
		Natural Language (Learn More) Topics: multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language and dialogue systems, text understanding systems Director: Dr David J Israel
		Perception (Learn More) Topics: 3D modeling and interpretation, analysis of range images, image matching and autonomous navigation, integration of multiple information sources, linear feature detection and analysis, model-based scene analysis, natural object recognition, optimization-based recognition, partitioning and perceptual organization, representation of natural scenes, stereo analysis Director: Dr Robert C Bolles
		Representation and Reasoning (Learn More) Topics: generative planning, reactive planning/control, fuzzy control, evidential reasoning, automated deduction, knowledge browsing and editing, agent architectures, distributed reasoning Director: Dr John D Lowrance