Publications From 2006

Wagner, Thomas; Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Modeling Uncertainty and its Implications to Sophisticated Control in TAEMS Agents. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 13, Number 3, Springer: Netherlands, pp. 235-292. 2006. On-line version available April 2006.

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. Forming and Searching Content-Based Hierarchical Agent Clusters In Distributed Information Retrieval Systems. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Volume 4, Number 4, IOS Press, pp. 353-370. 2006.

Mailler, Roger; Lesser, Victor. Asynchronous Partial Overlay: A New Algorithm for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, AI Access Foundation, pp. 529-576. 2006.

Sims, Mark; Mostafa, Hala; Horling, Bryan; Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Dan. Lateral and Hierarchical Partial Centralization for Distributed Coordination and Scheduling of Complex Hierarchical Task Networks. AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management. 2006.

Horling, Bryan. Quantitative Organizational Modeling and Design for Multi-Agent Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 2006.

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Learning the Task Allocation Game. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 850-857. 2006.

Guo, AnYuan; Lesser Victor. Stochastic Planning for Weakly-Coupled Distributed Agents. Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM, pp. 326-328. 2006. Short paper.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using Queuing Theory to Predict Organizational Metrics. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM, pp. 1098-1100. 2006. Appeared as short paper in conference; available here in full length version.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Vincent, Regis and Wagner, Thomas. The Soft Real-Time Agent Control Architecture. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 12, Number 1, Springer Science+Business Media , pp. 35-92. 2006. An earlier version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-14.

Shen, Jiaying; and Lesser, Victor. Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 622-629. 2006.

Shen, Jiaying; Becker, Raphen; and Lesser, Victor. Agent Interaction in Distributed MDPs and its Implications on Complexity. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ACM, pp. 529-536. 2006.

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. Multi-Agent Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems With Concurrent Search Sessions. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), ACM, pp. 305-312. 2006.

Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. A Cooperative Mediation-Based Protocol for Dynamic, Distributed Resource Allocation. IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents, Volume 36, Number 1, IEEE Press, pp. 80-91. 2006.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, V.; Wagner, Tom. Integrative Negotiation Among Agents Situated in Organizations. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, Volume 36, Number 1, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 19-30. 2006. Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis & Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents