Publications From 1997

Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Complex Goal Criteria and its Application in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling. Proceedings of AAAI-97, also a version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-10, pp. 294-301. 1997.

Mammen, Dorothy L., and Hogg, Tad. A New Look at the Easy-Hard-Easy Pattern of Combinatorial Search Difficulty. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 7, pp. 47-66. 1997.

Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Managing Complexity through Goal-Directed Satisficing. Proceedings of the AAAI-97 Workshop on Building Resource-Bounded Reasoning Systems. 1997.

Lesser, V.R., Horling, Bryan, Klassner, Frank, Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas A. and Zhang, Shelley XQ.. Information Gathering as a Resource Bounded Interpretation Task. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 97-34. 1997.

Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Leveraging Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling. Under Review, also a version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-11. 1997.

Klassner, F., Lesser, V., and Nawab, H.. Combining Approximate Front End Signal Processing with Selective Reprocessing in Auditory Perception. Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI-97), AAAI Press, pp. 661-666. 1997.

Nagendra Prasad, M.V and Lesser, V.R.. The Use of Meta-Level Information in Learning Situation Specific Coordination. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’97), AAAI Press. 1997.

Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. Reading in Agents, M. Huhns and M. Singh (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 66-73. 1997.

Lander, S., and Lesser, V.. Sharing Meta-Information to Guide Cooperative Search Among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 9, Number 2, pp. 193-208. 1997.

Oates, T., Nagendra Prasad, M.V., and Lesser, V.. Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem-Solving Approach. IEE Proceedings on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Agent-based Systems, Volume 144, Number 1, IEE Proceedings on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Agent-based Systems, pp. 72-88. 1997.

Sandholm, Tuomas; and Lesser, Victor. Coalitions Among Computationally Bounded Agents. Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Economic Principles of Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 94, Number 1, pp. 99-137. 1997.