Bo AN   ban@cs.umass.edu   Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst 140 Governor's Drive Amherst, MA 01003   Office Number: (413) 545-3444

I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a member of the Multi-Agent Systems Lab. My advisor is professor Victor Lesser.

Research interests

Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, automated negotiation, resource(task) allocation, coalition formation, electronic commerce, game theory

Education

Ph.D. study, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2006---
M.Sc., Computer Science, Chongqing Univerisity, China, 2006
B.Sc., Computer Science, Chongqing Univerisity, China, 2003

Selected Publications (see publications page for full list of papers)

Bo An, Victor Lesser. Characterizing contract-based multi-agent resource allocation in networks. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, to appear.

Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Bilateral bargaining with one-sided two-type uncertainty. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.

Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Extending alternating-offers bargaining in one-to-many and many-to-many settings. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.

Kwang Mong Sim, Bo An. Evolving best-response strategies for market-driven agents using aggregative fitness GA. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 284-298, May 2009.

Bo An, Fred Douglis, Fan Ye. Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.551-558, 2008.

Bo An, Victor Lesser, Kwang Mong Sim. Decommitment in multi-resource negotiation. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.1553-1556, 2008.

Michael Krainin, Bo An, Victor Lesser. An application of automated negotiation to distributed task allocation. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), pp.138-145, 2007.

Bo An, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. Algorithms for transitive dependence based coalition formation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 234-245, Aug. 2007.

Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Decision making of negotiation agents using Markov Chains. Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 5-23, 2008.

Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Victor Lesser. Evolving the best-response strategy to decide when to make a proposal. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp.1035-1042, 2007.

Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Market based resource allocation with incomplete information. Proc. of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp.1193-1198, 2007.

Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. Continuous time negotiation mechanism for software agents. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1261-1272, Dec. 2006.

Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. A coalition formation framework based on transitive dependence. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems,, Vol.E88-D, No.12, pp.2672-2680, Dec. 2005.