Mark Sims

I am a research assistant in the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My advisor is Victor Lesser.


Publications

2007

Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor. Knowledgeable Automated Organization Design for Multi-Agent Systems. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 07-43. August 2007. Submitted to JAAMAS

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.

2005

Sims, Mark; Kurose, Jim; and Lesser, Victor. Streaming versus Batch Processing of Sensor Data in a Hazardous Weather Detection System. Proceedings of Second Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2005), pp. 185-196. September 2005.

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. November 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

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. September 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

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. July 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here

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.

Sims, Mark; Goldman, Claudia; and Lesser, Victor. Self-Organization through Bottom-up Coalition Formation. Proceedings of Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2003), ACM Press, pp. 867-874. July 2003. Also sponsored by NSF Grant #DMI0122173 and Air Force Office of Scientific Research grand #F49620-03-1-0090


Projects

Dual-boot Dell Inspiron 600m
Buring ISO images using cdrecord

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Mark Sims
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