Publications From 1998

Horling, Bryan. A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-49, Number 1998-49, University of Massachusetts. 1998.

Decker, Keith, Durfee, Edmund, Lesser, Victor. Evaluating Research in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 88-89, University of Massachusetts. 1998.

Mammen, Dorothy L., and Lesser, Victor R.. Problem Structure and Subproblem Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems. Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 174-181. 1998.

Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Next Generation Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis; in conjunction with the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI98). 1998. Also available as UMass Computer Science Tech Report 98-72

Corkill, Daniel D.; Lander, Susan E.. Diversity in Agent Organizations. Object Magazine, Volume 8, Number 4, pp. 41-47. 1998.

Horling, Bryan, and Lesser, Victor. A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction. University of Massachusetts/Amherst CMPSCI Technical Report 1998-30, Number 1998-30, University of Massachusetts. 1998.

Wagner, Thomas A. and Lesser, Victor R.. Toward Ubiquitous Satisficing Agent Control. Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium on Satisficing Models, a version is also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-61. 1998.

Raja, Anita, Lesser, Victor, and Wagner, Thomas. A more complex view of schedule uncertainty based on contingency analysis. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 98-04, Volume 1998, Number 04. 1998.

Chia, M.H., Neiman, D.E. and Lesser, V.R. Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 88-95. 1998.

Bazzan, Ana L. C., Lesser, Victor R., and Xuan, Ping. Adapting an Organization Design through Domain-Independent Diagnosis. Technical Report 98-77, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.. 1998.

Bhandaru, M. and Lesser, V.. Discrepancy Directed Model Acquisition for Adaptive Perceptual Systems. Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Rosenthal and Okuno (eds.) NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 215-232. 1998.

Chia, M.H.; Neiman, D.E.; and Lesser, V.R.. Coordinating Asynchronous Agent Activities in a Distributed Scheduling System. 1998.

Klassner, F., Lesser, V. and Nawab, H.. The IPUS Blackboard Architecture as a Framework for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis. Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Rosenthal and Okuno (eds.), NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 105-114. 1998.

Klassner, F.; Lesser, V.; and Nawab, H.. The Role of Data Reprocessing in Complex Acoustic Environments.. 1998.

Lesser, V., Decker, K., Carver, N., Garvey, A., Neiman, D., Nagendra Prasad, M., and Wagner, T.. Evolution of the GPGP Domain-Independent Coordination Framework. University of Massachusetts/Amherst CMPSCI Technical Report 98-05. 1998.

Lesser, Victor. Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 89-111. 1998.

Lesser, Victor R., Horling, Bryan, Klassner, Frank, Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas A., Zhang, Shelley X.Q.. BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).. 1998. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1998-03

Nagendra Prasad, M.V.,Lesser,V.R. and Lander, S.. Learning Organizational Roles for Negotiatiated Search in a MultiAgent System. 1998.

Sugawara, T. and Lesser, V.R.. Learning to Improve Coordinated Actions in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving Environments. Machine Learning, Volume 33, Number 2-3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 129-153. 1998.

Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering. AAAI-98 Workshop on Information Integration. 1998.

Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Wagner, Tom and Lesser, Victor. Survivability Simulator for Multi-Agent Adaptive Coordination. International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, Volume 30, Number 1, Fishwick, P., Hill, D. and Smith R. (eds.), The Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 114-119. 1998.

Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Criteria Directed Task Scheduling. Journal for Approximate Reasoning (Special Issue on Scheduling), Volume 19, Elsevier Science Inc., pp. 91-118. 1998. A version is also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-59.