Publications From 2002

Jensen, David; Lesser, Victor. Social Pathologies of Adaptive Agents. Safe Learning Agents: Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium., Volume TR SS-02-07, M. Barley & H. Guesgen, ed., AAAI Press. 2002.

Wagner, T.; Lesser, V.. Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems. Intelligent Agents VIII: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Volume 2333, J. Meyer & M. Tambe, ed., Springer-Verlag, pp. 51-68. 2002.

Bordini, R.H.; Bazzan, A.L.C.; Jannone, R. de O.; Basso, D.M.; Vicari, R.M.; Lesser, V.R. AgentSpeak(XL): Efficient Intention Selection in BDI Agents via Decision-Theoretic Task Scheduling. Proceedings of 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 3, ACM Press, pp. 1294-1302. 2002.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Vincent, Regis and Wagner, Thomas. The Soft Real-Time Agent Control Architecture. Proceedings of the AAAI/KDD/UAI-2002 Joint Workshop on Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems. 2002. Also available as UMass Computer Science Tech Report 02-14.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Meta-Level Control in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of AAAI/KDD/UAI-2002 Joint Workshop on Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems. (Also UMass Computer Science Technical Report 01-49, Nov. 2001), Volume WS-02-15, pp. 47-53. 2002.

Xiaoqin Zhang; Victor Lesser; and Tom Wagner . Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002), (Extended Abstract), pp. 503-504. 2002. A full version is available as University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report #02-43,

Becker, Raphen; Zilberstein, Shlomo; Lesser, Victor; and Goldman, Claudia V.. Transition-Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes. University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer Science Technical Report, Number 02-50. 2002.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Vincent, Regis; and Wagner, Tom. The Soft Real-Time Agent Control Architecture. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-14, Number 02-14, University of Massachusetts. 2002. See also this paper.

Lesser, V.; Decker, K.; Wagner, T.; Carver, N.; Garvey, A.; Horling, B.; Neiman, D.; Podorozhny, R.; NagendraPrasad, M.; Raja, A.; Vincent, R.; Xuan, P.; Zhang, X.Q. Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework. Proceedings 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Plenary Lecture/Extended Abstract), pp. 1-2. 2002. The full version is available as University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer Science Technical Report 02-03.

Sandholm, T.; Lesser, V.. Leveled-Commitment Contracting: A Backtracking Instrument for Multiagent Systems. AI Magazine, Volume Fall 23, Number 3, pp. 89-100. 2002.

Shen, Hao; Shen, Jiaying. Existence of Resolvable Group Divisible Designs with Block Size Four I. Discrete Mathematics, Volume 254, Elsevier, pp. 513-525. 2002.

Shen, Jiaying; Lesser, Victor; and Carver, Norman. Controlling Information Exchange in Distributed Bayesian Networks. UMASS Tech Report 02-22. 2002.

Xiaoqin Zhang; Victor Lesser. Multi-Linked Negotiation in Multi-Agent System. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents And MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002), pp. 1207-1214. 2002.

Xuan, Ping; Lesser, Victor. Multi-Agent Policies: From Centralized Ones to Decentralized Ones. Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Volume Part 3, ACM Press, pp. 1098-1105. 2002.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor; and Wagner, Tom. Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems. University of Massachusetts Computer Science Tech Report #02-43, Number 02-43, University of Massachusetts. 2002.