2008

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.

2006

Sims, Mark; Mostafa, Hala; Horling, Bryan; Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Dan. Lateral and Hierarchical Partial Centralization for Distributed Coordination and Scheduling of Complex Hierarchical Task Networks. AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management. March 2006.

Horling, Bryan. Quantitative Organizational Modeling and Design for Multi-Agent Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. February 2006.

Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Using Queuing Theory to Predict Organizational Metrics. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM, pp. 1098-1100. 2006. Appeared as short paper in conference; available here in full length version.

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.

2005

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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. December 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. 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.

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.

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.

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; 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.

2003

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. 2001. Recieved Honorable Mention in FIPA Software Prototypes Track Demonstration Competition

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.

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.

2000

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, Benyo, Brett, and Lesser, Victor. Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures. The Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS 2000), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 397-398. July 2000.

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; 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.

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.

1999

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, 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.

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; and Zhang, Shelly XQ. The UMASS Intelligent Home Project. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 291-298. 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.

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.

1998

Horling, Bryan. A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-49, Number 1998-49, University of Massachusetts. October 1998.

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

Horling, Bryan, and Lesser, Victor. A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction. University of Massachusetts/Amherst CMPSCI Technical Report 1998-30, Number 1998-30, University of Massachusetts. May 1998.

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

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.

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.