Publications From 2003

Corkill, Daniel D. Collaborating Software: Blackboard and Multi-Agent Systems & the Future. Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference. 2003. Invited paper.

Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. A Mediation Based Protocol for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. The Fourth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning, pp. 49-58. 2003.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Automated Meta-Level Control Reasoning in Complex Agents. Proceedings of workshop on Agents and Automated Reasoning in the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003). 2003.

Xiang, Y.; and Lesser, V. A Constructive Graphical Model Approach for Knowledge-Based Systems: A Vehicle Monitoring Case Study. Computational Intelligence, Volume 19, Number 3, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 284-309. 2003.

Becker, Raphen; Zilberstein, Shlomo; Lesser, Victor; Goldman, Claudia V.. Transition-Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 41-48. 2003. Received BEST PAPER AWARD.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; Sims, Mark; and Lesser, Victor. Using and Maintaining Organization in a Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Network. Proceedings of the Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control (AAMAS03). 2003.

Mailler, Roger; Lesser, Victor; and Horling, Bryan. Cooperative Negotiation for Soft Real-Time Distributed Resource Allocation. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, pp. 576-583. 2003. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-49.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Efficient Meta-Level Control in Bounded Rational Agents. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 1104-1105. 2003. Extended abstract, full version in UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-051

Shen, Jiaying; Lesser, Victor; Carver, Norman. Minimizing Communication Cost in a Distributed Bayesian Network using a Decentralized MDP. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Volume AAMAS03, ACM Press, pp. 678-685. 2003. Also submitted as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-52.

Sims, Mark; Goldman, Claudia; and Lesser, Victor. Self-Organization through Bottom-up Coalition Formation. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, pp. 867-874. 2003. Also sponsored by NSF Grant #DMI0122173 and Air Force Office of Scientific Research grand #F49620-03-1-0090

Wagner, Tom; Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Phelps, John; and Guralnik, Valerie. The Struggle for Reuse: Pros and Cons of Generalization in Taems and its Impact on Technology Transition. Proceedings of the ISCA 12th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE-2003). 2003.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor; and Abdallah, Sherief. Efficient Ordering and Parameterization of Multi-Linked Negotiation. Proceedings 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (Extended abstract), Volume AAMAS03, ACM Press, pp. 1170-1171. 2003. Full version available as University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report #02-42.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor; Wagner, Thomas. A Multi-Leveled Negotiation Framework. Proceedings 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (Extended abstract), Volume AAMAS03, ACM Press, pp. 1172-1173. 2003. Full version available as University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report #02-44.

Lesser, Victor. Experiences Buliding a Distributed Sensor Network. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI, Xiang & B. Chaib-draa, ed., Springer, pp. 1-6. 2003.

Rubinstein, Zachary B.; and Corkill, Daniel D. Mixed-Initiative Management of Dynamic Business Processes. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, pp. 39-44. 2003.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2003), pp. 171-177. 2003.

Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind. Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective (Edited book). Series: MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS, Volume 9, Lesser, V.; Ortiz, C.; and Tambe, M., ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-7499-9 386 pp.

Corkill, Daniel D.; Rubinstein, Zachary B.; Lander, Susan E.; and Lesser, Victor. Live-Representation Process Management. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pp. 203-208. 2003.

Egyed, Alexander; Horling, Bryan; Becker, Raphen; and Balzer, Robert. Visualization and Debugging Tools. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 33-41. 2003. Book chapter.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; Shen, Jiaying; Vincent, Regis, and Lesser, Victor. Using Autonomy, Organizational Design and Negotiation in a Distributed Sensor Network. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 139-183. 2003. Book chapter.

Mailler, Roger and Lesser, Victor. Cooperative Negotiation for Optimized Distributed Resource Allocation in Soft Real-Time. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2003-07. 2003.

Wang, Guandong; Zhang, Weixiong; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Analysis of Negotiation Protocols by Distributed Search. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 339-361. 2003.

Xiang, Yang; Lesser, Victor. On the Role of Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks for Cooperative Multiagent Systems. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A), Volume 33, Number 4, IEEE, pp. 489-501. 2003.

Xuan, Ping; Lesser, Victor. Using Agent Commitments as Planning Contexts. International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems, (Submitted, under review). 2003.

Zhang, XiaoQin; Lesser, Victor; Wagner, Thomas. Integrative Negotiation in Complex Organizational Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 140-146. 2003.

Zhang, X.Q.; Lesser, V.R.; Wagner, T. A Two-Level Negotiation Framework for Complex Negotiations. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 311-317. 2003.

Carver, Norman; Lesser, Victor. Domain Monotonicity and the Performance of Local Solution Strategies for CDPS-based Distributed Sensor Interpretation and Distributed Diagnosis. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 6, Number 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 35-76. 2003.

Shen, Jiaying; Adler, Micah; Lesser, Victor. A Formal Study of Distributed Resource Allocation Strategies in Multi-Agent Systems. 2003.