Publications From 2004

Becker, Raphen; Zilberstein, Shlomo; Lesser, Victor; Goldman, Claudia V. Solving Transition Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 22, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 423-455. 2004.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Data Dissemination Techniques For Distributed Simulation Environments. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, Ingalls, R. G.; Rossetti, M. D.; Smith, J. S.; and Peters, B. A., ed., Omnipress, pp. 792-800. 2004.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Quantitative Organizational Models for Large-Scale Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 297-312. 2004.

Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor. Separating Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-98, Number 04-98, University of Massachusetts. 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Organization-Based Cooperative Coalition Formation. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Techonology, IAT, pp. 162-168. 2004. Longer version available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2004-04.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. A Case Study of Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), pp. 51-57. 2004.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Meta-level Reasoning in Deliberative Agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), pp. 141-147. 2004.

Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor. Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), pp. 155-161. 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. A Case Study of Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice, AAAI Press, California, pp. 23-30. 2004. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-03.

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. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 9, Number 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 87-143. 2004. This is a revised version of the paper that appeared in Proceedings 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.

Scerri, Paul; Vincent, Regis; and Mailler, Roger. Comparing Three Approaches to Large Scale Coordination. Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Challenges in the Coordination of Large Scale Multi-agent Systems. 2004.

Shen, Jiaying; Zhang, Xiaoqin; and Lesser, Victor. Degree of Local Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility. Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2004), Volume 2, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 546-553. 2004.

Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor. Separating Domain and Coordination Knowledge in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice, AAAI Press, California, pp. 1-7. 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

Abdallah, Sherief; Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. The Role of an Agent Organization in a Grid Computing Environment. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling , (ICAPS 2004), Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services, pp. 1-8. 2004.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. The Farm Distributed Simulation Environment. Computer Science Technical Report 2004-12, Number 2004-12, University of Massachusetts. 2004.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Reasoning about Coordination Costs in Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Bridging the multiagent and multirobotic research gap , pp. 35-40. 2004.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation. Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems, Carlos Lucena, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Jaelson Castro and Paulo Alencar, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 220-237. 2004.

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Organization-Based Coalition Formation. Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Volume 3, (AAMAS‘04), pp. 1296-1297. 2004. Extended Abstract.

Becker, Raphen; Lesser, Victor; Zilberstein, Shlomo. Decentralized Markov Decision Processes with Event-Driven Interactions. The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Volume 1, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 302-309. 2004.

Cassin, P.; Eliot, C.; Lesser, V.; Rawlins, K.; Woolf, B. Ontology Extraction for Educational Knowledge Bases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2926, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 297-309. 2004. Revised and Invited Papers from Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management: International Symposium AMKM 2003, Stanford, CA, March 24-26, 2003.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. A Survey of Multi-Agent Organizational Paradigms. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 19, Number 4, Cambridge University Press, pp. 281-316. 2004. An earlier version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-45.

Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Cooperative Mediation. Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 438-445. 2004.

Mailler,Roger; and Lesser,Victor. Using Cooperative Mediation to Solve Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2004), Volume 1, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 446-453. 2004.

Xuan, Ping; Lesser, Victor; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. Modeling Cooperative Multiagent Problem Solving as Decentralized Decision Processes. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 2004. (under review)

Zhang, Haizheng; Croft, Bruce; Levine, Brian; and Lesser, Victor. A Multi-agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer based Information Retrieval System. Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp. 456-464. 2004.

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. A Dynamically Formed Hierarchical Agent Organization for a Distributed Content Sharing System . Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 169-175. 2004. A longer version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-47

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor; Wagner, Thomas. A Layered Approach to Complex Negotiations. the (WIAS) Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Volume 2, Number 2, IOS Press, pp. 91-104. 2004.