One other area of prime interest to my research is the understanding of complexity and complex dynamical systems. I have made several contributions in complex system research over the years, but recently turned my attention to the use of intelligent autonomous agents for monitoring and control of distributed and networked processes. Along with Cinar, Tatara, North, Balasubramaniam, Perk, Ozturk and others, we have developed an agent development platform called MADCABS that uses the RePast/Simphony agent environment, demonstrated the successful application of agents to multiple monitoring and control processes, and are currently involved in the investigation of the theory of stability of agent-based control; very little exists in this regard.

• Öztürk, Mustafa Çağdaş, and Fouad Teymour. “Bifurcation Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Processes”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53(45), pp. 17736-17752, 2014.

• Perk, S., Q. M. Shao, F. Teymour, and A. Cinar. "An adaptive fault‐tolerant control framework with agent‐based systems." International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 22(1), pp. 43-67, 2012.

• Artel, Arsun, Fouad Teymour, Michael North, and Ali Cinar. "A multi-agent approach using perceptron-based learning for robust operation of distributed chemical reactor networks." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 24(6), pp. 1035-1045, 2011.

• Balasubramanian, Sukanya, Fouad Teymour, and Ali Cinar. "Design and Evolution of an Agent Based System Applied to an Autocatalytic Network." Procedia Computer Science 6, pp. 297-302, 2011.