Publications From 1995

Decker, Keith, Lesser, Victor, Prasad, Nagendra, and Wagner, Thomas. MACRON: An Architecture for Multi-Agent Cooperative Information Gathering. Proccedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents. 1995.

Garvey, Alan, Lesser, Victor. Design-to-time Scheduling and Anytime Algorithms. IJCAI Workshop on Anytime Algorithms and Deliberation Scheduling. 1995.

Decker, K.. Environment Centered Analysis and Design of Coordination Mechanisms. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1995.

Carver, N. Examining Some Assumptions of the FA/C Distributed Problem-Solving Paradigm. Proceedings of the. 1995.

Decker, K.; Lesser, V.. Coordination Assistance for Mixed Human and Computational Agents. Proceedings of Concurrent Engineering 95, pp. 337-348. 1995. Available as UMASS Computer Science Department Technical Report 95-31

Garvey, A.; Lesser, V. Representing and Scheduling Satisficing Tasks. Imprecise and Approximate Computation, S. Natarajan (ed.) Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 23-34. 1995.

Carver, N., Lesser, V.. The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI Press, pp. 33-40. 1995.

Decker, K. and Lesser, V.. Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-95), AAAI Press, pp. 73-80. 1995.

Garvey, Alan, and Lesser, Victor. Design-to-time Scheduling with Uncertainty. UMass CS Technical Report 95-03. 1995.

Lesser, V.. Multiagent Systems: An Emerging Subdiscipline of AI. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 27, Number 3, pp. 340-342. 1995.

Lesser, V.. The Turing Award Winners' Contributions to Computer Science. IEEE Expert, Volume 10, Number 1. 1995.

Lesser, V.R., Nawab, S.H., and Klassner, F.I.. IPUS: An architecture for the integrated processing and understanding of signals. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 77, Elsevier Science, pp. 129-171. 1995.

Long, Q. and Lesser, V.. A Heuristic Real-Time Parallel Scheduler Based on Task Structures. Technical Report 95-92, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. 1995.

Nagendra, M., Lesser, Victor, Lander, Susan. Retrieval and Reasoning in Distributed Case Bases. UMass Computer Sciences Technical Report 95-27, University of Massachusetts. 1995.

Oates, T., Nagendra Prasad, M.V., Lesser, V., and Decker, K.. A Distributed Problem-Solving Approach to Cooperative Information Gathering. 1995.

Prasad, Nagendra, Lesser, Victor, and Lander, Susan. Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System. UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 95-35. 1995.

Prasad, Nagendra, Lesser, Victor, and Lander, Susan. Learning Experiments in a Heterogeneous Multi-agent System. IJCAI-95 Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multiagent Systems. 1995.

Sandholm, T. and Crites, R.. Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma. Biosystems, Special Issue on the Prisoner s Dilemma. 1995.

Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V.. Coalition Formation among Bounded Rational Agents. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 662-669. 1995.

Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V.. Equilibrium Analysis of the Possibilities of Unenforced Exchange in Multiagent Systems. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), pp. 694-701. 1995.

Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V.. Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-95), pp. 328-335. 1995.

Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V.. On Automated Contracting in Multi-enterprise Manufacturing. Proceedings of Improving Manufacturing Performance in a Distributed Enterprise: Advanced Systems and Tools. 1995.

Sandholm, T. W. , Lesser, V.R.. Advantages of Leveled Commitment Contracting Protocol. Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, AAAI Press/MIT Press, pp. 126-133. 1995.

Whitehair, Robert. A Framework for the Analysis of Sophisticated Control. UMASS PhD Thesis. 1995.

Whitehair, Robert, and Lesser, Victor. IDP: A Formalism for Modeling and Analyzing Complex Interpretation Problem Domains. UMASS Technical Report 95-37. 1995.

Whitehair, Robert, and Lesser, Victor. A Methodology for Modeling Sophisticated Problem Solvers. UMASS. 1995.