Publications From 2001

Mailler, Roger; Vincent, Regis; Lesser, Victor; Middlekoop, Tim; and Shen, Jiaying. Soft Real-Time, Cooperative Negotiation for Distributed Resource Allocation. AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems. 2001.

Zhang, X.Q.; Lesser, V.; Podorozhny, R. New Results on Cooperative, MultiStep Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function. Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems. 2001.

Zhang, X.Q.; Lesser, V.; Wagner, T. A Proposed Approach to Sophisticated Negotiation. AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems. 2001.

Raja, Anita, and Lesser, Victor. Towards Bounded-Rationality in Multi-Agent Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Based Approach. University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report, Volume 2001, Number 34. 2001.

Shen, Jiaying, Lesser, Victor, and Carver, Norman. Reasoning about Remote Data in CDPS with Distributed Bayesian Network. Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - ACAI 2001 & EASSS 2001 Student Sessions. 2001.

Horling, Bryan, Benyo, Brett, and Lesser, Victor. Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 529-536. 2001.

Horling, Bryan, Vincent, Regis, Mailler, Roger, Shen, Jiaying, Becker, Raphen, Rawlins, Kyle and Lesser, Victor. Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 417-424. 2001.

Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. 2001.

Raja, A.; Lesser, V. Real-Time Meta-Level Control in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of Multi-Agent Systems and Applications - ACAI 2001 & EASSS 2001 Student Sessions. (Also: Proceedings of Adaptability and Embodiment Using Multi-Agent Systems: AEMAS 2001 Workshop). 2001.

Raja, A.; Wagner, T.; Lesser, V. Reasoning about Uncertainty in Agent Control. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis, Computer Science and Engineering: Part 1, Volume VII, pp. 156-161. 2001.

Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. 2001. Recieved Honorable Mention in FIPA Software Prototypes Track Demonstration Competition

Wagner, T. and Lesser, V. Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Real-Time Agent Control. Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems (Part of Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Volume 1887, Wagner & Rana, ed., Springer, pp. 128-143. 2001.

Wagner, Thomas, and Horling, Bryan. The Struggle for Reuse and Domain Independence: Research with TAEMS, DTC and JAF. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS (Agents 2001), AAAI. 2001.

Woolf, B.; Lesser, V.; Eliot , C.; Klein, M. A Digital Market Place for Education. Electronics Business and Education: Recent Advances in Internet Infrastructures, F. Particle & V. Milutinovic, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.

Sandholm, Tuomas; Lesser, Victor. Leveled Commitment Contracts and Strategic Breach. Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 35, Academic Press, pp. 212-270. 2001.

Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 1887, Wagner and Rana (eds.), Springer,, pp. 102-127. 2001.

Wagner, Thomas; Lesser, Victor. Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale MAS. Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 17-18. 2001.

Xuan, P.; Lesser, V.; Zilberstein, S.. Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 616-623. 2001.