Publications From 1999

Wagner, Thomas; Raja, Anita; and Lesser, Victor. Modeling Uncertainty and its Implications to Design-to-Criteria Scheduling. UMASS Technical Report TR 1998-51, Number TR 1998-51, University of Massachusetts. 1999.

Horling, Bryan, Benyo, Brett, and Lesser, Victor. Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures. Computer Science Technical Report 1999-64, Number 1999-64, University of Massachusetts. 1999.

Jensen, David; Atighetchi, Michael; Vincent, Régis; and Lesser, Victor. Learning Quantitative Knowledge for Multiagent Coordination. 16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 24-31. 1999.

Horling, Bryan, and Lesser, Victor. Using Diagnosis to Learn Contextual Coordination Rules. Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications, AAAI Press, pp. 70-74. 1999.

Shapiro, Jonathan. Economics-Based Approaches in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Information Networking. Accepted, Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Distributed Information Networking. 1999.

Wagner, Thomas and Lesser, Victor. Toward Generalized Organizationally Contexted Agent Control. Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context, a version also available as UMASS CS Tech Report TR99-18, AAAI Press, pp. 101-105. 1999.

Wagner, Thomas; Shapiro, Jonathan; Xuan, Ping; Lesser, Victor. Multi-Level Conflict in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Negotiation in MAS , AAAI Press, pp. 50-55. 1999. Also available as UMASS CS Tech Report 99-17

Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., Zhang, S.. Recent Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, Florida 1999,UMASS Technical Report 1999-13. 1999.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Tom; Raja, Anita; Zhang, Shelley; Decker, Keith; and Garvey, Alan. The TAEMS White Paper. 1999.

Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Xuan, Ping; and Zhang, Shelly XQ. The UMASS Intelligent Home Project. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 291-298. 1999.

Nagendra Prasad, M.V. and Lesser, V. Learning Situation Specific Coordination in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 173-207. 1999.

Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas, Lesser, Victor. Ensuring Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.. University of Massachusetts Computer Science TR-99-027. 1999.

Shen, Hao; Shen, Jiaying. Further Results on the Existence of Labeled Resolvable Block Designs. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Volume B4, Number 2, pp. 52-56. 1999.

Lesser, Victor. Cooperative Multiagent Systems: A Personal View of the State of the Art. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 11, Number 1, IEEE Computer Society. 1999.

Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Ping, Xuan; and Zhang, Shelley XQ. The Intelligent Home Testbed. Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop). 1999.

Lesser, Victor, Atighetchi, Michael, Benyo, Brett, Horling, Bryan, Raja, Anita, Vincent, Regis, Wagner, Thomas, Xuan, Ping, Zhang, Shelly XQ. A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-40, University of Massachusetts. 1999.

Piater, Justus H., Cohen, Paul R., Zhang, Xiaoqin, Atighetchi, Michael. A Randomized ANOVA Procedure for Comparing Performance Curves. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agent. 1999.

Xuan, Ping, and Lesser, Victor. Handling Uncertainty in Multi-Agent Commitments. Technical Report 1999-05, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1999.

Xuan, Ping, Lesser, Victor. Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments. Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, N. R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 57-70. 1999.