Publications From 2005

Ostwald, John; Lesser, Victor; Abdallah, Sherief. Combinatorial Auction for Resource Allocation in a Distributed Sensor Network. The 26th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium, (RTSS'05), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 266-274. 2005.

Becker, Raphen; Lesser, Victor; Zilberstein, Shlomo. Analyzing Myopic Approaches for Multi-Agent Communication. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 05), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 550-557. 2005. Winner of the BEST PAPER AWARD.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using ODML to Model Organizations for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 72-80. 2005.

Sims, Mark; Kurose, Jim; and Lesser, Victor. Streaming versus Batch Processing of Sensor Data in a Hazardous Weather Detection System. Proceedings of Second Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2005), pp. 185-196. 2005.

de Oliveira, D.; Bazzan, Ana; Lesser, V. Using Cooperative Mediation to Coordinate Traffic Lights: a Case Study. Proceedings of Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 463-469. 2005.

Guo, AnYuan; Lesser, Victor. Planning for Weakly-Coupled Partially Observable Stochastic Games. Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1715-1716. 2005. (Extended abstract.)

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 9-30. 2005.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using ODML to Model and Design Organizations for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on From Organizations to Organization Oriented Programming (OOOP 05), Boissier, Olivier; Dignum, Virginia; Matson, Eric; and Sichman, Jaime, ed., pp. 33-48. 2005.

Shen, Jiaying; and Lesser, Victor. Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05), New York: ACM Press, pp. 1115-1116. 2005. (Extended Abstract; Presented as Poster.)

Shen, Jiaying; Weber, Ingo; and Lesser, Victor. OAR: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Negotiation. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 05), AAAI, pp. 176-183. 2005.

Zheng, Qinhe; Zhang, Xiaoqin. Automatic Formation and Analysis of Multi-Agent Virtual Organization. the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society: Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 74-89. 2005.

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Modeling Task Allocation Using a Decision Theoretic Model. Proceedings of Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 719-726. 2005.

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Learning Task Allocation via Multi-Level Policy Gradient Algorithm with Dynamic Learning Rate . Proceedings of Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Bulitko, V.; and Koenig, S., ed., pp. 76-82. 2005.

Guo, AnYuan. Planning for Weakly-Coupled Partially Observable Stochastic Games. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Computer Science Technical Report. 2005. This paper was accepted (as a Short Paper -- acceptance rate ~22%) at The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), but was not published because the authors were unable to attend.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Distribution Strategies for Collaborative and Adaptive Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS 2005), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 497-504. 2005.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Quantitative Organizational Models for Large-Scale Agent Systems. Massively Multi-Agent Systems I, Volume LNAI 3446, Ishida, Toru; Gasser, Les; and Nakashima, Hideyuki, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 121-135. 2005.

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. A Queueing Theory Based Analysis on Agent Control Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer based Information Retrieval Systems. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2005 Workshop on Peer to Peer based Information Retrieval . 2005.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor. Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. UMASSD-CIS-TR-2005007. 2005.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor; and Abdallah, Sherief . Efficient Management of Multi-Linked Negotiation Based on a Formalized Model. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 165-205. 2005.

Zhang, XiaoQin; Lesser, Victor; Podorozhny, Rodion . Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation for Task Allocation in a Cooperative System. Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 5-40. 2005.

Zink, M.; Westbrook, D.; Abdallah, S.; Horling, B.; Lyons, E.; Lakamraju, V.; Manfredi, V.; Kurose, J.; and Hondl, K. Meteorological Command and Control: An End-to-end Architecture for a Hazardous Weather Detection Sensor Network. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services (EESR 05), pp. 37-42. 2005.