Publications From 1991

Lesser, Victor. A Retrospective View of FA/C Distributed Problem Solving. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Volume 21, Number 6, pp. 1347-1363. 1991. An extended version of this paper is available here.

Durfee, E.H. and Lesser, V.R.. Partial Global Planning: A Coordination Framework for Distributed Hypothesis Formation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Volume 21, Number 5, pp. 1167-1183. 1991.

Carver, N. and Lesser, V.R.. A New Framework for Sensor Interpretation: Planning to Resolve Sources of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 724-731. 1991.

Carver, N., Cvetanovic, Z., and Lesser, V.R.. Sophisticated Cooperation in FA/C Distributed Problem-Solving Systems. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 191-198. 1991.

Connell, M.E.; Huff, K.E., and Lesser, V.R. Planning in the Context of an Intelligent Assistant. University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer Science Technical Report 91-44. 1991.

Decker, K.S., Garvey, A.J., Humphrey, M.A. and Lesser, V.R. Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 15-21. 1991.

Kuwabara, K. and Lesser, V. Goal Conflict Detection in Multistage Negotiation. Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Volume 32, Number 10, pp. 1269-1280. 1991.

Laasri, B., Laasri, H. and Lesser, V. An Analysis of Negotiation and Its Role for Coordinating Cooperative Distributed Problem Solvers. Proceedings of the General Conference on Second Generation Expert Systems; Eleventh International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Volume 2, pp. 81-94. 1991.

Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R. and Connell, M.E. Conflict Resolution Strategies or Cooperating Expert Agents. Cooperative Knowledge-Based Systems 1990, S.M. Deen (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 183-189. 1991.

Lander, S.E., Lesser, V.R. and Connell, M.E. Knowledge-Based Conflict Resolution for Cooperation Among Expert Agents.. Computer-Aided Cooperative Product Development, D. Sriram, R.Logcher, and S. Fukuda (eds.). Springer-Verlag. 1991.

Carver, N., and Lesser, V.. Blackboard-based Sensor Interpretation using a Symbolic Model of the Sources of Uncertainty in Abductive Inferences.. In Proceedings of AAAI 1991 Workshop on Abduction. Also UMass Technical Report. 1991.

Corkill, Daniel. Blackboard Systems. AI Expert, Volume 6, Number 9. 1991.

Durfee, E.H., Lesser, V.R., and Corkill, D.D.. Distributed Problem Solving. The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons.. 1991.

Lesser, V.R.. Forward to Frank von Martial's. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag. 1991.

Lesser, V. R., Nawab, S. H., Bhandaru, M. K., Cvetanovic, Z., Gallastegi, I., and Klassner, F.. Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding. University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report #91-34. 1991.

Neiman, D.. Control Issues in Parallel Rule-Firing Production Systems. Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1991.