Publications From 2011

Kim, Yoonheui; Krainin, Michael; Lesser, Victor. Effective Variants of the Max-Sum Algorithm for Radar Coordination and Scheduling. Proceedings of 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 357-364. 2011. Longer version available as technical report here: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/502

Mostafa, Hala. Exploiting Structure in Coordinating Multiple Decision Makers. Ph.D. Thesis. 2011.

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor. Compact Mathematical Programs For DEC-MDPs With Structured Agent Interactions. Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011), pp. 523-530. 2011.

Zafar, Huzaifa; Corkill, Daniel. Leveraging Failures to Enhance Hierarchical Concept Learning when Training and Testing are Limited. University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Technical Report #2011-026. 2011.

Corkill, Daniel; Durfee, Edmund; Lesser, Victor; Zafar, Huzaifa; Zhang, Chongjie. Organizationally Adept Agents. 12th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@AAMAS 2011), pp. 15-30. 2011. Held in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-11).

An, Bo. AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION FOR COMPLEX MULTI-AGENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION. Ph.D. Thesis. 2011.

Kim, Yoonheui; Krainin, Michael; and Lesser, Victor. Effective Variants of Max-Sum Algorithm to Radar Coordination and Scheduling. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2011-007. 2011.

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor. Negotiation Over Decommitment Penalty. Proc. of 10th Intl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2011); Extended Abstract, Tumer, Yolum, Sonenberg & Stone, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 1101-1102. 2011.

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor. Negotiation Over Decommitment Penalty. UMASS Department of Computer Science Technical Report 2011-009. 2011.

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor; Sim, Kwang Mong. Strategic Agents for Multi-resource Negotiation. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 23, Number 1, Springer Netherlands, pp. 114-153. 2011. Online version available 2010; print version appeared Spring 2011.

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor; Westbrook, David; Zink, Michael. Agent-mediated Multi-step Optimization for Resource Allocation in Distributed Sensor Networks. Proc. of 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Innovative Applications Track (AAMAS 2011), Volume 2, Tumer, Yolum, Sonenberg and Stone, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 609-616. 2011.

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor. A Compact Mathematical Formulation For Problems With Structured Agent Interactions. Proceedings of the Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making Workshop, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, pp. 55-62. 2011.

Raja, Anita; Alexander, George; Lesser, Victor; Krainin, Michael. Coordinating Agents’ Metalevel Control. Metareasoning: Thinking about thinking, Cox, Michael T.; Raja, Anita, ed., MIT Press, pp. 201-215. 2011.

Yu, Ling; Shen, Zhiqi; Miao, Chunyan; Lesser, Victor. Genetic Algorithm Aided Optimization of Hierarchical Multi-Agent System Organization. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-11), Extended Abstract, pp. 1169-1170. 2011.

Zhang, Chongjie; and Lesser, Victor. Coordinated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Networked Distributed POMDPs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), pp. 764-770. 2011.