Bryan C. Horling
University of Massachusetts
Department of Computer Science
Amherst, MA  01003 		bhorling@cs.umass.edu
http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/
 
Research Interests Personalization, multi-agent systems, distributed systems, adaptive systems, organizational design, sensor networks, simulator design, agent frameworks, agent control, biological applications of computer science.
 
Education Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts. February 2006.
Thesis: Quantitative Organizational Modeling and Design for Multi-Agent Systems

Master of Science, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts. May 1998.
Thesis: A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction

Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science and Biology
Trinity College, Hartford, CT. May 1996.
Thesis: A Lindenmayer-Systems Implementation
 
Honors and Awards Passed Ph.D. Candidacy Exam with Distinction, 2003
Co-Finalist, DARPA ANTs EW Challenge Problem, 2001
Honorable Mention, FIPA Prototypes Track Competition, AA 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, 1996
President's Fellow for Computer Science, 1996
Burger's Prize in Biology, 1996
Mary A. Terry Fellowship, 1996
Thomas Hume Bissonnette Teaching Associate, 1995
 
Employment
Sr. Software Engineer, Google, Inc. 2006 - present
   Conceived, analyzed, implemented and launched various techniques to improve the quality of web search results.

Research Assistant, Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory, UMass. 2002 - 2005
   Performed research and development on a variety of multi-agent and distributed systems projects. Contributed to grant proposals and gave project presentations and demonstrations. Designed and implemented a scalable, distributed simulation environment, an organizational design modeling language, and contributed to the design of a next-generation severe weather monitoring system. Authored or contributed to over 50 publications.

Sr. Research Fellow, UMass. 1999 - 2002
   Designed and implemented a real-time distributed sensor tracking system and a causal model based diagnostic component. Developed a web-based publication database.

Systems Architect and Developer, Simbody Software, Amherst, MA 2000 - 2002
   Co-founder. Designed and implemented Internet-based software copyright detection and statistics gathering technology.

Research Assistant, Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory, UMass. 1996 - 1999
   Designed and implemented a domain-independent, simulation environments for survivability evaluation, a modular agent development framework, and retrieval services for an information retrieval agent.

Programmer, Freeverse Software, New York 1996 - present
   Designed and developed commercial software for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
 
Journal Publications

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor. Using quantitative models to search for appropriate organizational designs. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 16, Number 2, Springer, pp. 95-149. 2008.

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.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 9-30. July 2005.

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. 2005. An earlier version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-45.

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. July 2004. This is a revised version of the paper that appeared in Proceedings 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.

Lesser, Victor; Horling, Bryan; Klassner, Frank; Raja, Anita; Wagner, Thomas; and Zhang, Shelley. BIG: An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Internet Information Agents, Volume 118, Number 1-2, Elsevier Science, pp. 197-244. May 2000. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1998-52

Lesser, Victor; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Wagner, Thomas; Zhang, Xiaoqin. Resource-Bounded Searches in an Information Marketplace. IEEE Internet Computing: Agents on the Net, Volume 4, Number 2, IEEE Computer Society Publications, pp. 49-57. March 2000.
 
Highly Refereed Conference Publications

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using ODML to Model Organizations for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 72-80. September 2005.

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. December 2004.

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. September 2004.

Mailler, Roger; Lesser, Victor; and Horling, Bryan. Cooperative Negotiation for Soft Real-Time Distributed Resource Allocation. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, pp. 576-583. July 2003. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-49.

Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. June 2001.

Horling, Bryan, Vincent, Regis, Mailler, Roger, Shen, Jiaying, Becker, Raphen, Rawlins, Kyle and Lesser, Victor. Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 417-424. June 2001.

Horling, Bryan, Benyo, Brett, and Lesser, Victor. Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 529-536. June 2001.

Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor. Experiences in Simulating Multi-Agent Systems Using TAEMS. The Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS 2000), AAAI. July 2000.

Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Xuan, Ping; and Zhang, Shelly XQ. The UMASS Intelligent Home Project. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 291-298. 1999.

Lesser, Victor R., Horling, Bryan, Klassner, Frank, Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas A., Zhang, Shelley X.Q.. BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).. January 1998. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1998-03
 
Other Refereed Publications

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using ODML to Model and Design Organizations for Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on From Organizations to Organization Oriented Programming (OOOP 05), Boissier, Olivier; Dignum, Virginia; Matson, Eric; and Sichman, Jaime, ed., pp. 33-48. July 2005.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Distribution Strategies for Collaborative and Adaptive Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS 2005), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 497-504. 2005.

Zink, M.; Westbrook, D.; Abdallah, S.; Horling, B.; Lyons, E.; Lakamraju, V.; Manfredi, V.; Kurose, J.; and Hondl, K. Meteorological Command and Control: An End-to-end Architecture for a Hazardous Weather Detection Sensor Network. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services (EESR 05), pp. 37-42. 2005.

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. December 2004.

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. July 2004. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-03.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; Sims, Mark; and Lesser, Victor. Using and Maintaining Organization in a Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Network. Proceedings of the Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control (AAMAS03). July 2003.

Wagner, Tom; Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Phelps, John; and Guralnik, Valerie. The Struggle for Reuse: Pros and Cons of Generalization in Taems and its Impact on Technology Transition. Proceedings of the ISCA 12th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE-2003). July 2003.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2003), pp. 171-177. May 2003.

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. July 2002. Also available as UMass Computer Science Tech Report 02-14.

Wagner, Thomas, and Horling, Bryan. The Struggle for Reuse and Domain Independence: Research with TAEMS, DTC and JAF. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS (Agents 2001), AAAI. 2001.

Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor, Vincent, Regis. Multi-Agent System Simulation Framework. 16th IMACS World Congress 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation. August 2000.

Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor, Vincent, Regis, Bazzan, Ana, and Xuan, Ping. Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent Adaptability. Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 211-219. January 2000.

Horling, Bryan, and Lesser, Victor. Using Diagnosis to Learn Contextual Coordination Rules. Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications, AAAI Press, pp. 70-74. July 1999.

Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., Zhang, S.. Recent Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, Florida 1999,UMASS Technical Report 1999-13. March 1999.

Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Ping, Xuan; and Zhang, Shelley XQ. The Intelligent Home Testbed. Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop). January 1999.

Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Next Generation Information Gathering Agent. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis; in conjunction with the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI98). July 1998. Also available as UMass Computer Science Tech Report 98-72

Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Wagner, Tom and Lesser, Victor. Survivability Simulator for Multi-Agent Adaptive Coordination. International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, Volume 30, Number 1, Fishwick, P., Hill, D. and Smith R. (eds.), The Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 114-119. January 1998.

Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering. AAAI-98 Workshop on Information Integration. January 1998.
 
Edited Collections and Book Chapters

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Quantitative Organizational Models for Large-Scale Agent Systems. Massively Multi-Agent Systems I, Volume LNAI 3446, Ishida, Toru; Gasser, Les; and Nakashima, Hideyuki, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 121-135. 2005.

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. February 2004.

Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; Shen, Jiaying; Vincent, Regis, and Lesser, Victor. Using Autonomy, Organizational Design and Negotiation in a Distributed Sensor Network. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 139-183. 2003. Book chapter.

Egyed, Alexander; Horling, Bryan; Becker, Raphen; and Balzer, Robert. Visualization and Debugging Tools. Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective, Lesser, Victor; Ortiz, Charles; and Tambe, Milind, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 33-41. 2003. Book chapter.

Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 1887, Wagner and Rana (eds.), Springer,, pp. 102-127. January 2001.
 
Other Publications

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

Horling, Bryan, Benyo, Brett, and Lesser, Victor. Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures. Computer Science Technical Report 1999-64, Number 1999-64, University of Massachusetts. November 1999.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Tom; Raja, Anita; Zhang, Shelley; Decker, Keith; and Garvey, Alan. The TAEMS White Paper. 1999.

Lesser, Victor, Atighetchi, Michael, Benyo, Brett, Horling, Bryan, Raja, Anita, Vincent, Regis, Wagner, Thomas, Xuan, Ping, Zhang, Shelly XQ. A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-40, University of Massachusetts. January 1999.

Horling, Bryan. A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-49, Number 1998-49, University of Massachusetts. October 1998.
 
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Presentations • SRI - Modeling and Designing Multi-Agent Systems Through Explicit Organizational Design, 2005
• International Workshop of Massively Multi-Agent Systems - Quantitative Organizational Models for Large-Scale Agent Systems, 2004
• Winter Simulation Conference 2004 - Data Dissemination Techniques for Distributed Simulation Environments, 2004
• Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice (AAAI04) - A Case Study of Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network, 2004
• Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control (AAMAS03) - Using and Maintaining Organization in a Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Network, 2003
• Honeywell Labs, Decomposition and Specialization in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, Dec, 2001
• Autonomous Agents 2001 - Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures, June, 2001
• Air Force Research Laboratory - Decomposition and Specialization in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, August, 2000
• Reasoning in Context Workshop (AAAI99) - Using Diagnosis to Learn Contextual Coordination Rules, July, 1999
• Autonomous Agents 1999 - A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control, May, 1999
• Web-Based Modeling & Simulation 1998 - Survivability Simulator for Multi-Agent Coordination, January, 1998
 
Service • Reviewer - International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
• Reviewer - Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCom 2005)
• Program Committee - Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents 2005
• Reviewer - International Journal of Systems Science
• Reviewer - Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS 2004)
• Reviewer - Workshop on Agents in Computer Games (AAAI 2002)
 
References References available upon request.