MASL Publications Through 1995
1995
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Carver, N. and Lesser, V. "The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, June 1995. AAAI Press.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, San Francisco, June 1995. AAAI Press.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "The Evolution of Blackboard Control Architectures," Expert Systems with Applications- Special Issue on the Blackboard Paradigm and Its Applications. Vol. 7, No. 1, Liebowitz (Ed.). New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 1-30, Jan.-Mar. 1994.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "A Survey of Research in Deliberative Real-Time Artificial Intelligence," The Journal of Real-Time Systems, 6(3):317-347, May 1994.
Neiman, D., Hildum, D., Lesser, V. and Sandholm, T. "Exploiting Meta-level Information in a Distributed Scheduling System," Proceedings of Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "Representing and Scheduling Satisficing Tasks," in Imprecise and Approximate Computation, S. Natarajan (ed.). Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 23-34, 1995.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "Coordination Assistance for Mixed Human and Computational Agents." In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications, McLean, Virginia, August 1995. (Also UMASS Computer Science TR-95-31.)
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V. "Design-to-time Scheduling and Anytime Algorithms." Proceedings of the Workshop on Anytime Algorithms and Deliberation Scheduling, IJCAI-95, Montreal, Canada.
Bhandaru, M. and Lesser, V. "Discrepancy Directed Model Acquisition for Adaptive Perceptual Systems." IJCAI-95 Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Montreal, Canada, 1995.
Klassner, F., Lesser, V. and Nawab, H. "The IPUS Blackboard Architecture as a Framework for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis." IJCAI-95 Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Montreal, Canada, 1995.
Sugawara, T. and Lesser, V. "Learning Coordination Plans in Distributed Problem-Solving Environments." abstract in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, San Francisco, June 1995. AAAI Press.
Oates, T., Nagendra Prasad, M.V., Lesser, V.R. , and Decker, K.S. "A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Cooperative Information Gathering," AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford CA, March 1995.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R. "A First Step Toward the Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in Fa/C Distributed Interpretation Systems" in Proceedings of 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, July 1994.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R. "Communication in the Service of Coordination," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Planning for Interagent Communication, AAAI, Seattle, WA, July 1994.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R. "Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms" in Proceedings of 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, July, 1994. (Also appears as Computer Science Technical Report 94-14, University of Massachusetts, January 1994.) Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations," in Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Organization Design, Stanford University, March 1994.
Garvey, A., Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "A Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a Decision-Maker," in Proceedings of Workshop on Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving AAAI, Seattle, WA, July 1994. (Also appears as Computer Science Technical Report 94-08, University of Massachusetts, January 1994.)
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "Research Summary of Investigations Into Optimal Design-to-time Scheduling," in Proceedings of Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Reasoning and Search Methods at AAAI, Seattle, WA, July 1994.
Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R. and Nagendraprasad, M. "Knowledge Sharing Among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents in Cooperative Distributed Search" in Proceedings of 13th InternationalWorkshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, July 1994. Lander, S.E. and Lesser, V.R. "Sharing Meta-Information to Guide Cooperative Search among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents," Computer Science Technical Report 94-48, University of Massachusetts, June 1994.
Oates, T., Nagendra Prasad, M.V., and Lesser, V.R. "Networked Information Retrieval as Distributed Problem Solving," in Proceedings of CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94), December 1994.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1995. Coalition Formation among Bounded Rational Agents. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1995. Equilibrium Analysis of the Possibilities of Unenforced Exchange in Multiagent Systems. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1995. Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. First International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-95), San Fransisco.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1995. On Automated Contracting in Multi-enterprise Manufacturing. Improving Manufacturing Performance in a Distributed Enterprise: Advanced Systems and Tools, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sandholm, T. and Crites, R. 1995. Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Biosystems. Special Issue on the Prisoner's Dilemma. Accepted.
Chapters in Books
Reports and Papers Presented
Long, Q. and Lesser, V. "A Heuristic Real-Time Parallel Scheduler Based on Task Strucutures." Technical Report 95-92, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.
Whitehair, R. and Lesser, V. "A Methodology for Modeling Sophisticated Problem Solvers." Computer Science Technical Report 95-37, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.
Whitehair, R. and Lesser, V. "Formal Analysis Techniques for Heuristic Control Strategies in Blackboard-Based Interpretation Systems." Computer Science Technical Report 95-38, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.
Whitehair, R. and Lesser, V. "IDP: A Formalism for Modeling and Analyzing Complex Interpretation Problem Domains." Computer Science Technical Report 95-39, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V. "Design-to-time Scheduling With Uncertainty," University of Massachusetts Computer Science Department Technical Report 95-03, 1995.
Bhandaru, M.K. and Lesser, V.R. "Automated Object Model Acquisition for Adaptive Perceptual Systems," Computer Science Technical Report 94-24, University of Massachusetts, August 1994.
Sandholm, T. and Crites, R. 1995. On Multiagent Q-Learning in a Semi-competitive Domain. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multiagent Systems, Montreal, Canada
1994
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Lesser, V., Nawab, H., and Klassner, F. "IPUS: An Architecture for Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding of Signals," Artificial Intelligence Journal. (Accepted)
Neiman, D., Hildum, D., Lesser, V. and Sandholm, T. "Exploiting Meta-level Information in a Distributed Scheduling System," to appear in the Proceedings of Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Accepted).
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "A Survey of Research in Deliberative Real-Time Artificial Intelligence," The Journal of Real-Time Systems, 6(3):317-347, May, 1994.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "The Evolution of Blackboard Control Architectures," Expert Systems with Applications-- Special Issue on the Blackboard Paradigm and Its Applications. Vol. 7, No. 1, Liebowitz (Ed.). New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 1-30, Jan.-Mar. 1994.
Chapters in Books
Decker, K. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Testbeds. In G. O'Hare and N. Jennings, editors, Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Inter-Science, 1994 (Chapter 5, forthcoming, invited).Decker, K. TÆMS: A framework for analysis and design of coordination mechanisms. In G. O'Hare and N. Jennings, editors, Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Inter-Science, 1994 (Chapter 17, forthcoming, invited).
Reports and Papers Presented
Decker, K. "Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations," Presented at the TIMS College on Organization Fourth Annual Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Organization Theory, April 23, 1994.Decker,K. and Lesser, V.R. Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations. AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Organization Design, Stanford University, March 21-23, 1994.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1994. An Exchange Protocol without Enforcement. 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, pp. 305-319. Extended version published as University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Computer Science Technical Report TR 94-44.
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1994. Utility-Based Termination of Anytime Algorithms. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Decision Theory for DAI Applications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 88-99. Extended version published as University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Computer Science Technical Report TR 94-54.
Sandholm, T. 1994. A New Order Parameter for 3SAT. Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Reasoning and Search Methods, Seattle, Washington, pp. 57-63.
1993
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Decker, K. and Lesser, V.R. "Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments," International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, special issue on Mathematical and Computational Models of Organizations: Models and Characteristics of Agent Behavior. Vol. 2: 215-234, 1993
Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R., "A Planner for the Control of Problem-Solving Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Special Issue on Planning, Scheduling and Control. Vol. 23 (6):1519-1536, Nov/Dec 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Analyzing a Quantitative Coordination Relationship," Group Decision and Negotiation 2:195-217, 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "An Approach to Analyzing the Need for Meta-Level Communication," Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "A One-Shot Dynamic Coordination Algorithm for Distributed Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 210-216, 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "Quantitative Modeling of Complex Computational Task Environments," Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 217-224, 1993.
Decker, K., Garvey, A., Humphrey, M. and Lesser, V., "A Real-Time Control Architecture for an Approximate Processing Blackboard System," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp 265-284, 1993. (An expanded version of paper in Proceedings of the 25th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Blackboard Systems Minitrack, Vol. III: 532-541, January 1992.)
Decker, K., Garvey, A., Humphrey, M. and Lesser, V., "Control Heuristics for Scheduling in a Parallel Blackboard System," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 243-264, 1993.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Special Issue on Planning, Scheduling and Control. Vol. 23 (6):1491-1502, Nov/Dec 1993.
Garvey, A., Humphrey, M., and Lesser, V. "Task Interdependencies in Design-to-time Real-time Scheduling," Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 580-585, 1993.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V. "Understanding the Role of Negotiation in Distributed Search Among Heterogeneous Agents," Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Chambery, France, 1993.
Lesser, V., Nawab, H., Gallastegi, I. and Klassner, F. "IPUS: An Architecture for Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding in Complex Environments," Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 249-255, 1993.
Sandholm, T.. 1993. An Implementation of the Contract Net Protocol Based on Marginal Cost Calculations, Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington D.C., pp. 256-262.
Reports and Papers Presented
Bhandaru, M., Draper, B. A., and Lesser, V., "Learning Image to Symbol Conversion," AAAI 1993 Fall Symposium Series: Machine Learning in Computer Vision: What, Why and How?, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 1993.Carver, N. and Lesser, V. "Distributed Sensor Interpretation: Modeling Agent Interpretations in DRESUN," Computer Science Technical Report 93-75, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1993. (This is a revised and extended version of that which appeared in Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.)
Carver, N., Lesser, V. and Long, Q., "Resolving Global Inconsistency in Distributed Sensor Interpretation: Modeling Agent Interpretations in DRESUN," Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V. "Quantitative Modeling of Complex Computational Task Environments," Computer Science Technical Report 93-21, University of Massachusetts, 1993. (This is a revised and extended version of paper with same title in Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993.)
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Analyzing the Need for Meta-Level Communication," Computer Science Technical Report 93-22, University of Massachusetts, 1993. (This is a revised and extended version of paper with same title in Proceedings of Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.)
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Examples of Quantitative Modeling of Complex Computational Task Environments", Workshop on AI and Theories of Groups & Organizations: Conceptual and Empirical Research, AAAI-93, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Analyzing the Need for Meta-Level Communication," Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Quantitative Modeling of Complex Computational Task Environments," Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "A Survey of Research in Deliberative Real-Time Artificial Intelligence," Computer Science Technical Report 93-84, University of Massachusetts, November 1993.
Klassner, F., Lesser, V., and Nawab, H., "Fusing Multiple Reprocessings of Signal Data," SPIE Sensor Fusion VI Conference, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 2059, September 1993.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V. "Understanding the Role of Negotiation in Distributed Search Among Heterogeneous Agents," IJCAI-93 Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving, IJCAI-93, Chambery, France, August 1993.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V. "Organizing Cooperative Search Among Heterogeneous Expert Agents," AI in Collaborative Design Workshop, AAAI-93, Washington, D.C. , 1993.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V. "Understanding the Role of Negotiation in Distributed Search among Heterogeneous Agents," Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Mammen, D.. and Lesser, V.R., "Interdependent suproblems in Distributed Problem Solving," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 93-58, September 1993.
Sugawara, T. and Lesser, V., "On-Line Learning of Coordination Plans," Twelfth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1993 (An expanded version of paper with the same title is UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 93-27).
Whitehair, R. and Lesser, V.R., "A Framework for the Analysis of Sophisticated Control in Interpretation Systems," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 93-53.
1992
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Decker, K. and Lesser, V., "Generalizing The Partial Global Planning Algorithm," International Journal on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems, 1(2):319-346, 1992.
Dorken, E., Nawab, H. and Lesser, V., "Extended Model Variety Analysis for Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals," The Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, San Francisco, CA, March 1992.
Lâasri, B., Lâasri, H., Lander, S. and Lesser, V., "A Generic Model for Intelligent Negotiating Agents," International Journal on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems , 1(2):291-317, 1992.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V., "Customizing Distributed Search Among Agents with Heterogeneous Knowledge," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 335-344, Baltimore, MD, November 1992.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V., "Negotiated Search: Organizing Cooperative Search Among Heterogeneous Expert Agents," Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Applications in Manufacturing and Robotics, Cancun, Mexico, December 1992.
Moehlman, T., Lesser, V. and Buteau, B., "Decentralized Negotiation: An Approach to the Distributed Planning Problem," Group Decision and Negotiation 1:2, K. Sycara (ed.), pp. 161-192. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
Chapters in Books
Decker, K., Lesser, V., Garvey, A. and Humphrey, M., "An Approach to Modeling Environment and Task Characteristics for Coordination." Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference, Charles J. Petrie (ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 379-388, 1992.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "Blackboard Architectures for Knowledge-Based Signal Understanding," in Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing, Alan Oppenheim and S. Hamid Nawab (eds.), Prentice Hall, 205-250, 1992.
Nawab, H. and Lesser, V.R., "Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals," in Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing, Alan Oppenheim and Hamid Nawab (eds.), Prentice Hall, 251-285, 1992.
Reports and Papers Presented
Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "The Evolution of Blackboard Control Architectures," Computer Science Technical Report 92-71, University of Massachusetts, 1992. (This is a revised and extended version of paper with same title to appear in Expert Systems with Applications-- Special Issue on the Blackboard Paradigm and Its Applications.)
Decker, K. S., Garvey, A.J., Lesser, V.R., and Humphrey, M.A., "An Approach to Modeling Environment and Task Characteristics for Coordination," AAAI Workshop on Enterprise Integration, San Jose, pp. 93-102, July 1992.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "The Analysis of Quantitative Coordination Relationships," Working Papers of the Eleventh International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Ann Arbor, MI, February 1992.
Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "Scheduling Satisficing Tasks with a Focus on Design-to-time Scheduling," Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Imprecise and Approximate Computation, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 25-29, December 1992.
Lander, S., Lesser, V.R. and Connell, M., "Negotiated Search: Cooperative Search Among Heterogeneous Expert Agents," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, AAAI-92," San Jose, CA, July 1992.
Mammen, D. and Lesser, V., "Using Textures to Control Distributed Problem Solving," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, AAAI-92, San Jose, July 1992.
1991
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Conry, S.E., Kuwabara, K., Lesser, V.R. and Meyer, R.A., "Multistage Negotiation in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21(6):1462-1477, Nov/Dec 1991.
Carver, N., Cvetanovic, Z., and Lesser, V.R., "Sophisticated Cooperation in FA/C Distributed Problem-Solving Systems," Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991, pp. 191-198.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R., "A New Framework for Sensor Interpretation: Planning to Resolve Sources of Uncertainty," Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 1991, pp. 724-731.
Decker, K.S., Garvey, A.J., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R., "Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling," Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sydney, Australia, August 1991, pp. 15-21.
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Partial Global Planning: A Coordination Framework for Distributed Hypothesis Formation," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(5):1167-1183, September/October 1991.
Kuwabara, K. and Lesser, V., "Goal Conflict Detection in the Multistage Negotiation," in Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan,, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 1269-1280, 1991.
Lâasri, B., Lâasri, H. and Lesser, V., "An Analysis of Negotiation and Its Role for Coordinating Cooperative Distributed Problem Solvers," Proceedings of the General Conference on Second Generation Expert Systems, Volume 2, Eleventh International Conference on Expert Systems and Their Applications, Avignon, France, May 27-31, 1991, pp. 81-94.
Lesser, V.R., "A Retrospective View of FA/C Distributed Problem Solving," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6):1347-1362, Nov/Dec 1991.
Chapters in Books
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R., and Corkill, D.D., Distributed problem solving. In S. Shapiro, editor, The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R., and Connell, M.E., "Conflict Resolution Strategies for Cooperating Expert Agents," in Cooperating Knowledge-Based Systems 1990, S.M. Deen (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 183-198, 1991.
Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R. and Connell, M.E., "Knowledge-Based Conflict Resolution for Cooperation Among Expert Agents," Computer-Aided Cooperative Product Development, D. Sriram, R. Logcher, and S. Fukuda (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1991.
Lesser, V.R., Foreword to Frank von Martial's "Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents," in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag.
Reports and Papers Presented
Carver, N., Cvetanovic, Z. and Lesser, V., "Sophisticated Cooperation in FA/C Distributed Problem Solving Systems," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-23.
Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "Blackboard-Based Sensor Interpretation Using a Symbolic Model of the Sources of Uncertainty in Abductive Inferences," in Proceedings of the [AAAI] Workshop Towards Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction, 1991, pp. 18-24.
Connell, M.E., Huff, K.E., and Lesser, V.R., "Planning in the Context of an Intelligent Assistant," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-44.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Generalized Partial Global Planning," in Proceedings of the [AAAI] Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, Anaheim, CA, 1991.
Decker, K.S., Garvey, A.J., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R., "Real-Time Control of Approximate Processing," in Proceedings of the Fifth [AAAI] Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Anaheim, CA, 1991.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Generalizing the Partial Global Planning Algorithm," Proceedings of IJCAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, Sydney, Australia, August 1991, pp. 137-148.
Decker, K.S., Garvey, A.J., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R., "Real-Time Control in a Blackboard System," in Proceedings of the Fifth [AAAI] Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Anaheim, CA, 1991.
Decker, K., Garvey, A., Humphrey, M. and Lesser, V., "Real-Time Control of Approximate Processing," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-50.
Lander, S., "Knowledge-Based Systems as Cooperating Experts," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-28.
Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R. and Connell, M.E., "Multi-Agent Search and Negotiation in Cooperative Expert Problem Solving," in Proceedings of the [AAAI] Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, Anaheim, CA, 1991.
Lesser, V.R., Nawab, H., Bhandaru, M., Cvetanovic, Z., Gallastegi, I., and Klassner, F., "Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-34.
1990
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Decker, K.S., Lesser, V.R. and Whitehair, R.C., "Extending a Blackboard Architecture for Approximate Processing," The Journal of Real-Time Systems--Special Issue on AI, 2(1/2):47-79, 1990.
Lesser, V.R., "An Overview of DAI: Viewing Distributed AI as Distributed Search," Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence--Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 4, R. Nakano and S. Doshita (eds.), 1990, pp. 392-400.
Chapters in Books
Lefkowitz, L.L. and Lesser, V.R., "Knowledge Acquisition as Knowledge Assimilation," Machine Learning and Uncertain Reasoning, B. Gaines and J. Boose (eds.), Knowledge-Base Systems Vol. 3, 1990, pp. 37-48. (Based on a paper presented at the Second AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems, Banff, October 1987.)
Reports and Papers Presented
Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R., "Control for Interpretation: Planning to Resolve Sources of Uncertainty," Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Blackboard Systems (AAAI-90), Boston, July 1990. (Also University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 90-53, July 1990.)
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Extending the Partial Global Planning Framework for Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving Network Control," in Proceedings of the 1990 DARPA Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Texas, November 1990. (Also University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 90-81.)
Decker, K.S., Lesser, V.R. and Whitehair, R.C., "Extending a Blackboard Architecture for Approximate Processing," University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 89-115, January 1990.
Decker, K.S., Garvey, A.J., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R., "Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Boston, August 1990. (Also University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 90-54.)
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "A Scenario for Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving," in Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Distributed AI, October 1990.
Lâasri, B., Lâasri, H. and Lesser, V. R., "Negotiation and Its Role in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving," in Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, October 1990. (Also University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 90-39, May 1990.)
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "The Use of Problem Solving Context in Choosing Conflict Resolution Strategies for Cooperating Expert Agents," Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge-Based Systems, Keele, United Kingdom, October 1990.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "Knowledge-Based Conflict Resolution for Cooperation among Expert Agents," Concurrent Engineering Design Workshop, AAAI-90, Boston, MA, August 1990.
Moehlman, T. and Lesser, V.R., "Cooperative Planning and Decentralized Negotiation in Multi-Fireboss Phoenix," in Proceedings of the 1990 DARPA Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Texas, November 1990.
1989
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, KDE-1(1), 1989, pp. 63-83.
Lesser, V.R., Corkill, D.D., Hernandez, J. and Whitehair, R.C., "Focus of Control Through Goal Relationships," Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1, Detroit, August 1989, pp. 497-503.
Nirenburg, S., Lesser, V.R. and Nyberg, E., "Controlling a Language Generation Planner," Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, Detroit, 1989, pp. 1524-1530.
Chapters in Books
Brodie, M., Bobrow, D., Lesser, V., Madnick, S., Tsichritzis, D. and Hewitt, C., "Future Artificial Intelligence Requirements for Intelligent Database Systems," in Expert Database Systems: Proceedings from the Second International Conference, Larry Kerschberg (ed.), Benjamin/Cummings, 1989, pp. 45-62.
Decker, K.S., Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Evaluating Research in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving," Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, M. Huhns and L. Gasser (eds.), Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1989, pp. 487-519.
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving," The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV, A.B. Barr, P. Cohen, and E. Feigenbaum (eds.), Addison Wesley, 1989, pp. 83-147.
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Negotiating Task Decomposition and Allocation Using Partial Global Planning,'' Distributed Artificial Intelligence, M. Huhns and L. Gasser (eds.), Vol. 2, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1989, pp. 229-244.
Lesser, V.R., Corkill, D.D., Hernandez, J.A., and Whitehair, R.C., "Goal Relationships and Their Use in a Blackboard Architecture," Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala and L. Baum (eds.), Academic Press, 1989, pp. 9-26. (Also in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Blackboard Systems (sponsored by AAAI), St. Paul, August 1988, pp. 73-87.)
Reports and Papers Presented
Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R., "Planning for the Control of an Interpretation System," University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 89-39, April 1989.
Connell, M., Huff, K.E. and Lesser, V.R., "Implementing an Incremental Hierarchical Plan Recognition System," Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI Workshop on Plan Recognition, IJCAI-89, Detroit, 1989.
Decker, K.S., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R., "Experimenting with Control in the DVMT," Proceedings of the Third Annual AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems, Detroit, 1989, pp. 103-121.
Decker, K.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Some Initial Thoughts on a Generic Architecture for CDPS Network Control," in Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, September 1989, pp. 73-94.
Kuwabara, K. and Lesser, V.R., "Extended Protocol for Multistage Negotiation," Proceedings of the 9th Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, 1989, pp. 129-161. (Also University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 89-79.)
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "A Framework for the Integration of Cooperative Knowledge-based Systems," Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Albany, NY, September 1989, pp. 472-477.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "A Framework for Cooperative Problem-Solving Among Knowledge-Based Systems," IJCAI 1989 Workshop on Integrated Architectures for Manufacturing Working Notes, Detroit, August 1989; also Proceedings of the MIT-JSME Workshop on Cooperative Product Development, MIT, Cambridge, November 1989.
Whitehair, R. and Lesser, V.R., "Implementation of a Real-time, Approximate-Processing System," Proceedings of the IJCAI Real-Time Workshop, Detroit, August 1989.
1988
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Incremental Planning to Control a Time-Constrained, Blackboard-Based Problem Solver," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems--Special Issue on Space Telerobotics, Vol. 24, No. 5, September 1988, pp. 647-662.
Huff, K.E. and Lesser, V.R., "A Plan-Based Intelligent Assistant that Supports the Software Development Process," Third ACM Symposium on Software Development Environments, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1988.
Lesser, V.R., Pavlin, J. and Durfee, E.H., "Approximate Processing in Real-Time Problem Solving," AI Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 49-61. (Also in Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala and L. Baum (eds.), Academic Press, 1989, pp. 239-267.)
Chapters in Books
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Predictability Versus Responsiveness: Coordinating Problem Solvers in Dynamic Domains," in Readings in Uncertain Reasoning, G. Shafer and J. Pearl (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1990, pp. 198-203. (Also in Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, St. Paul, August 1988, pp. 66-71.)
Reports and Papers Presented
Conry, S. E., Meyer, R. A. and Lesser, V. R., "Multistage Negotiation in Distributed Planning," Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 367-384.
Durfee, E. H. and Lesser, V. R., "Planning to Meet Deadlines in a Blackboard-based Problem Solver," Tutorial on Hard Real-Time Systems, J. Stankovic and K. Ramamritham (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, DC, 1988, pp. 595-608. (Also a University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report 87-07.)
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Negotiation Through Partial Global Planning," presented at The 1988 Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Lake Arrowhead, California, May 1988.
Huff, K.E. and Lesser, V.R., "Plan Recognition in Open Worlds," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 88-18, March 1988.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "Negotiation Among Cooperating Experts," Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Lake Arrowhead, California, May 1988.
Lander, S. and Lesser, V.R., "Negotiation to Resolve Conflicts Among Design Experts," Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on AI in Design, held in conjunction with AAAI-88, St. Paul, August 1988.
Lesser, V.R., "The Use of Planning for Control," an extended abstract for the Rochester Planning Workshop, Rochester, NY, October 1988.
Lesser, V.R. Foreword to E. H. Durfee's "Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers," Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 1988.
Nirenburg, S. and Lesser, V.R., "Providing Intelligent Assistance in Distributed Office Environments," Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 590-598. (Also published in Proceedings of Third ACM-SIGOIS Conference on Office Information Systems, Vol. 7, Providence, Rhode Island, October 1986, pp. 104-112.)
1987
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Lefkowitz, L.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Knowledge Acquisition as Knowledge Assimilation," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Volume 29, No. 2, 1989, pp. 215-226. (Also appeared in Machine Learning and Uncertain Reasoning, B. Gaines and J. Boose (eds.), Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 3, 1990, pp. 37-48; and a shorter version appeared in Proceedings of the Second AAAI Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada, October 1987, pp. 14.0-14.14.)
Broverman, C.A., Huff, K.E. and Lesser, V.R., "The Role of Plan Recognition in Design of an Intelligent User Interface," Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987, pp. 863-868.
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Coherent Cooperation Among Communicating Problem Solvers," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 36, Issue 11, November 1987, pp. 1275-1291. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 268-284.)
Durfee, E. H. and Lesser, V. R., "Using Partial Global Plans to Coordinate Distributed Problem Solvers," Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, August 1987, pp. 875-883. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 285-293.)
Hudlickà, E. and Lesser, V., "Modeling and Diagnosing Problem-Solving System Behavior," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 17, Number 3, May/June 1987, pp. 407-419. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 490-502.)
Nawab, H., Lesser, V.R. and Milios, E., "Diagnosing Using the Formal Theory of a Signal-Processing System," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 17, Number 3, May/June 1987, pp. 369-379.
Chapters in Books
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Cooperation Through Communication in a Distributed Problem-Solving Network," Cognition, Computing, and Cooperation, S. Robertson, W. Zachary, and J. Black (eds.), Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1990, pp. 159-186. (Also published in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Michael N. Huhns (ed.), Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987, pp. 29-58.)
Corkill, D.D. and Lesser, V.R., "Distributed Problem Solving," Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons (ed.), New York, 1987, pp. 245-251.
Pattison, H.E., Corkill, D.D., Lesser, V.R., "Instantiating Descriptions of Organizational Structures," Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Michael N. Huhns (ed.), Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1987, pp. 59-95.
Reports and Papers Presented
Durfee, E. and Lesser, V., "Planning Coordinated Actions in Dynamic Environments," Proceedings of the DARPA Knowledge-Based Planning Workshop, Austin, Texas, December 1987, pp. 18-1--18-10.
Durfee, E. and Lesser, V., "Incremental Planning to Control a Blackboard-Based Problem Solver," Proceedings of the Workshop on Space Telerobotics, Volume 3, Pasadena, California, January 1987, pp. 91-99.
Durfee, E. H. and Lesser, V. R., "Using Partial Global Plans to Coordinate Distributed Problem Solvers," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 87-06.
Huff, K. E. and Lesser, V. R., "Metaplans that Dynamically Reformulate Plans," Pasadena, California, University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 87-10.
Huff, K. E. and Lesser, V. R., "A Plan-Based Intelligent Assistant That Supports the Process of Programming," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 87-09.
Huff, K. E. and Lesser, V. R., "The GRAPPLE Plan Formalism," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 87-08.
Lesser, V. R., Corkill, D.D., and Durfee, E.H. "An Update on the Distributed Vehicle Monitoring Testbed," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 87-111.
1986
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Nawab, H., Lesser, V.R. and Milios, E., "Conceptual Diagnosis of Signal-Processing Systems," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Tokyo, April 1986.
Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R., "Incremental Planning to Control a Blackboard-Based Problem Solver," Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on AI, 1986, pp. 58-64.
Reports and Papers Presented
Hudlickà, E., Lesser, V., Pavlin, J. and Rewari, A., "Design of a Distributed Diagnosis System," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 86-63, December 1986.
1985 and Earlier
Journals and Highly-Refereed Proceedings
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Increasing Coherence in a Distributed Problem-Solving Network," Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1985, pp. 1025-1030.
Durfee, E.H., Corkill, D.D., and Lesser, V.R., "Distributing a Distributed Problem Solving Network Simulator," IEEE Computer Society's 1984 Fifth Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1984, pp. 237-246.
Hudlickà, E. and Lesser, V.R., "Meta-Level Control Through Fault Detection and Diagnosis," Proceedings of the 1984 National Conference on AI, 1984, pp. 153-161.
Carver, N., Lesser, V.R., and McCue, D.L., "Focusing in Plan Recognition," Proceedings of the 1984 National Conference on AI, 1984, pp. 42-48.
Hudlickà, E. and Lesser, V.R., "Design of a Knowledge-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis System," Proceedings of the 17th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol.1, 1984, pp. 224-230.
Bates, P.C., Wileden, J.C., and Lesser, V.R., "A Debugging Tool for Distributed Systems," Proceedings of the Second Annual Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, March 1983, pp. 311-315.
Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "The Distributed Vehicle Monitoring Testbed: A Tool for Investigating Distributed Problem Solving Networks," AI Magazine, 4(3), (Fall 1983), pp. 15-33. (Also in Blackboard Systems, R. Engelmore and T. Morgan (Eds.), Addison-Wesley, 1988, pp. 353-386; and Readings from the AI Magazine, Vols. 1-5, 1980-1985, R. Engelmore (ed.), AAAI Publishers, 1988, pp. 69-85.)
Corkill, D.D. and Lesser, V.R., "The Use of Meta-Level Control for Coordination in a Distributed Problem Solving Network" (long paper), Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1983, pp. 748-756, Karlsruhe, FRG. (Also published in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence Applications, Benjamin W. Wah and G.-J. Li (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 507-515, 1986.)
Lesser, V.R., et al., "A High-Level Simulation Testbed for Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving," Third International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, October 1983, pp. 341-349.
Corkill, D.D., Lesser, V.R., and Hudlickà, E., "Unifying Data-Directed and Goal-Directed Control: An Example and Experiments," Proceedings of the 1982 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1982, pp. 143-147.
Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Functionally-Accurate Cooperative Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Special Issue on Distributed Problem-Solving, Vol. SMC-11, No.1, January 1981, pp. 81-96. (This is an expanded version of a paper with same title which appeared in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, Denver, Colorado, October 1979, pp. 346-353. Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, pp. 295-310.)
Lesser, V.R. and Erman, L.D., "Distributed Interpretation: A Model and an Experiment," IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Distributed Processing, Vol. C-29,12, December 1980, pp. 1144-1163. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 120-139. A slightly expanded version of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, 1979, pp. 553-571, under the title "An Experiment in Distributed Interpretation.")
Lesser, V.R., Pavlin, J., and Reed, S., "Quantifying and Simulating the Behavior of Knowledge-Based Interpretation Systems," Proceedings of the 1980 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, California, August 1980, pp. 111-115.
Erman, L.D., Hayes-Roth, F., Lesser, V.R., and Reddy, D.R., "The HEARSAY-II Speech Understanding System: Integrating Knowledge to Resolve Uncertainty," Computing Surveys 12, (2), 1980, pp. 213-253. (Also in Blackboard Systems, R. Engelmore and T. Morgan (eds.), Addison-Wesley, 1988, pp. 31-86.)
Lesser, V.R., Serain, D., and Bonar, J., "PCL: A Process-Oriented Job Control Language," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Computing, Huntsville, Alabama, 1979, pp. 315-329.
Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "The Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Cooperative Distributed Processing," Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, August 1979, pp. 537-540.
Hayes-Roth, F. and Lesser, V.R., "Focus of Control in the HEARSAY-II System," Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977, pp. 27-35.
Lesser, V.R., Hayes-Roth, F., Birnbaum, M., and Cronk, R., "Selection of Word Islands in the HEARSAY-II Speech Understanding System," Proceedings of 1977 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hartford, Connecticut, 1977.
Lesser, V.R. and Erman, L.D. "A Retrospective View of the HEARSAY-II Architecture," Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977, pp. 790-800. (Also published in Blackboard Systems, R. Engelmore and T. Morgan (eds.), Addison Wesley, 1988, pp. 87-121.)
Fennell, R.D. and Lesser, V.R., "Parallelism in AI Problem Solving: A Case Study of HEARSAY-II," IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Multiprocessors, C-26, 2, 1977, pp. 98-111. Reprinted in IEEE's Tutorial on Parallel Processing, 1981. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988, pp. 106-119.)
Fuller, S.H., Lesser, V.R., Bell, C.G., and Kaman, C., "Microprogramming and Its Relationship to Emulation and Technology," IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Micro-programming, C-25, 10, 1976, pp. 1000-1009.
Erman, L.D., Fennell, R.D., Lesser, V.R., and Reddy, D.R., "Systems Organization for Speech Understanding: Implications of Network and Multiprocessor Computer Architectures for AI," IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, C-25, 5, 1976, pp. 414-421.
Hayes-Roth, F. and Lesser, V.R. "A Design for Attentional Control in a Distributed-Logic Speech Understanding System," Proceedings of 1976 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976.
Erman, L.D. and Lesser, V.R., "A Multi-Level Organization for Problem Solving Using Many Diverse, Cooperating Sources of Knowledge," Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tbilisi, Russia, 1975, pp. 483-490.
Lesser, V.R., Fennell, R.D., Erman, L.D., and Reddy, D.R., "Organization of the Hearsay-II Speech Understanding System," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ASSP-23, 1, 1975, pp. 11-23.
Lesser, V.R., "The Design of an Emulator for a Parallel Machine Language," Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN-SIGMICRO Interface Conference, Harriman, New York, 1973.
Lesser, V.R., "A Dynamically Reconfigurable Multiple Micro-Processor," International Conference on Computer Architecture, Grenoble, France, June 1973.
Lesser, V.R., "An Introduction to the Direct Emulation of Control Structures by a Parallel Micro-Computer," IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Micro-programming, C-20, 7, 1971, pp. 751-763.
Chapters in Books
Lesser, V.R. and Wileden, J.C., "Issues in the Design of Tools for Distributed Software System Development," Software Development Tools, W.E. Riddle and R. Fairley (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1980.
Erman, L.D. and Lesser, V.R., "Systems Engineering Techniques for Artificial Intelligence Systems," Computer Vision Systems, A. Hanson and E. Riseman (eds.), Academic Press, 1978, pp. 37-46.
Erman, L.D. and Lesser, V.R., "The HEARSAY-II Speech Understanding System: A Tutorial," Trends in Speech Recognition, W.A. Lea (ed.), Prentice-Hall, Chapter 16, 1978.
Lesser, V.R., "Parallel Processing in Speech Understanding Systems: A Survey of Design Problems," Invited Papers of the IEEE Symposium on Speech Recognition, D.R. Reddy (ed.), 1975, pp. 481-499.
Reports and Papers Presented
Pattison, H.E., Corkill, D.D., Lesser, V.R., "Instantiating Descriptions of Organizational Structures," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 85-45.
Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Making Coherent Communication Decisions in a Distributed Problem-Solving Network," Proceedings of the Workshop on AI and Distributed Problem Solving, National Academy of Sciences, May 1985, pp. 59-75.
Hudlickà, E. and Lesser, V.R., "Construction and Use of a Causal Model of a Problem-Solving System," Sigart Newsletter, Vol. 93, July 1985, pp. 48-55.
Nawab, H.E., Lesser, V.R. and Milios, E., "Diagnosis of a Theory-Based Algorithmic Problem-Solving System," Lincoln Labs Technical Report, August 1985.
Lesser, V.R., "Meta-Level Control Architecture for Cooperating Agents," appeared as abstract in Proceedings of American Association for Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, May 1984.
McCue, D.L. and Lesser, V.R., "Focusing and Constraint Management in Intelligent Interface Design," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 83-36.
Pang, Yun-Jie, House, D.H., and Lesser, V.R., "A Procedure Based Chinese-Style Landscape Painting System, Computer Hua-Jia (Picture Master)" 1983.
Corkill, D.D. and Lesser, V.R., "Coordination in a Distributed Problem Solving Network," Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, April 1983.
Hudlickà, E. and Lesser, V.R., "Knowledge-Based Approach to Fault-Tolerance," IEEE Workshop on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerance, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 1983. Abstract on Distributed Interpretation Testbed appeared in SIGART Newsletter, April 1982, pp. 16-17.
Editor of review on Artificial Intelligence/Brain Theory at University of Massachusetts, AI Magazine, Winter 1982.
Lesser, V.R., "A Meta-Level Architecture for Distributed Problem Solving Systems," appeared as an abstract in Proceedings of the 1983 National Bureau of Standards Conference on Software Trends, Washington,
Croft, W.B., Lefkowitz, L.S., Lesser, V.R., and Huff, K.E., "POISE: An Intelligent Interface for Profession-Based Systems," Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, April 1983.
Huff, K.E. and Lesser, V.R., "Knowledge-Based Command Understanding: An Example for the Software Development Environment," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 82-6, July 1982.
Lesser, V.R. et al., "A High-Level Simulation Testbed for Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 81-16, June 1981.A shortened version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of Distributed Sensor Networks Workshop, M.I.T. Lincoln Labs, January 1982.
Corkill, D.D. and Lesser, V.R., "A Goal-Directed HEARSAY-II Architecture: Unifying Data-Directed and Goal-Directed Control," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 81-15, June 1981.
Wileden, J.C., Bates, P.C., and Lesser, V.R., "EDL-An Event Description Language for Distributed Debugging," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 81-7, March 1981.
Reed, S. and Lesser, V.R., "Division of Labor in Honey Bees and Distributed Focus of Attention," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 80-17, November 1980.
Lesser, V.R., "Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving and Organizational Self-Design," Reports on the MIT Distributed AI Workshop in SIGART Newsletter, October 1980, p. 46. Also in the same issue: "Models of Problem Solving," p. 51.
Lesser, V.R. and Corkill, D.D., "Cooperative, Distributed Problem Solving." Abstract appears in Proceedings of Annual Meeting of American Association for Advancement of Science, Houston, Texas, 1979.
Brooks, R.S. and Lesser, V.R., "Distributed Problem Solving Using Iterative Refinement," University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer and Information Science Department Technical Report 79-14, May 1979.
Hayes-Roth, F., Lesser, V.R., Mostow, D.J., and Erman, L.D., "Policies for rating hypotheses, halting, and selecting a solution in HEARSAY-II." Speech Understanding Systems: Summary of Results of the Five-Year Research Effort; Carnegie-Mellon University, Computer Science Department Technical Report, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1977.
Fuller, S. H., Almes, G.T., Broadley, W.H., Forgy, G.L., Karlton, P.L., Lesser, V.R., and Teter, J.R., "PDL-11/40E Microprogramming Reference Manual," Carnegie-Mellon University, Computer Science Department Technical Report, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1975.
Wu, YU.S., Lesser, V.R., et al., "Report of the Navy Ad Hoc Software Maintainability Committee," Naval Research Laboratory (5490-325:YSW), Washington, D.C., August 1974.
Lesser, V.R., "Dynamic Control Structures and Their Use in Emulation," (Ph.D. Thesis), Report No.CS-309, Computer Science Department, Stanford, California.
Lesser, V.R., "Direct Emulation of Control Structures by aParallel Micro-Computer," SLAC Report 127 UC-32, Stanford University. Also presented at Third Annual Workshop on Micro-Programming, Buffalo, New York, 1970.
Lesser, V.R., "A Computer Organization Designed to Separate Data-Accessing from the Computation Algorithm," Computer Science Report No. 90, Stanford University, 1968.
Lesser, V.R., "A Modified Two-Level Search Algorithm Using Request Clustering," Scientific Report No.ISR-11 to NSF, 1966.
