Publications From 1996

Garvey, Alan, Lesser, Victor. Issues in Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling. AAAI Fall 1996 Symposium on Flexible Computation. 1996.

Wagner, Thomas A. and Lesser, Victor R.. Design-to-Criteria Scheduling for Intermittent Processing. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1996-81. 1996.

Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Satisficing Evaluation Functions: The Heart of the New Design-to-Criteria Paradigm. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1996-82. 1996.

Klassner, F.. Data Reprocessing in Signal Understanding Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1996.

Neiman, D. and Lesser, V.. A Cooperative Repair Method for a Distributed Scheduling System. AIPS-96, pp. 166-173. 1996.

Carver, N., Lesser, V. A Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Sensor Interpretation Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI Press, pp. 11-17. 1996.

Carver, N.; Lesser, V.; Whitehair, R. Nearly Monotonic Problems: A Key to Effective FA/C Distributed Sensor Interpretation?. Proceedings of Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, AAAI Press/ MIT Press, pp. 88-95. 1996.

Decker, Keith. Task Environment Centered Simulation. Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups, AAAI Press/MIT Press. 1996.

Decker, Keith. TAEMS: A Framework for Environment Centered Analysis & Design of Coordination Mechanisms. Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 16, G. O Hare and N. Jennings (eds.), Wiley Inter-Science, pp. 429-448. 1996.

Fujita, S. and Lesser, V.. Centralized Task Distribution in the Presence of Uncertainty and Time Deadlines. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 87-94. 1996.

Garvey, A., Lesser, V.. Design-to-time Scheduling and Anytime Algorithms. SIGART Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 3. 1996.

Nagendra, Prasad, M.V., Decker, K., Garvey, A., Lesser, V.. Exploring Organizational Designs with TAEMS: A case study of distributed data processing. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI Press, pp. 283-290. 1996.

Nagendra, Prasad, M.V., Lander, S.E, Lesser, V.R.. Cooperative Learning over Composite Search Spaces: Experiences with a Multi-agent Design System. Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, AAAI Presss / MIT Press, pp. 68-73. 1996.

Nagendra, Prasad, M.V., Lesser, V., Lander, S.. Retrieval and Reasoning in Distributed Case Bases. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Volume 7, Number 1, pp. 74-87. 1996.

Nagendra, Prasad, M.V., Lesser, V.R., Lander, S.. Learning Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multi-Agent System. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI Press, pp. 291-298. 1996.

Sandholm. T., Brodley, C., Vidovic, A. and Sandholm, M.. Comparison of Regression Methods, Symbolic Induction Methods and. Working Notes of the AAAI Spring, pp. 154-159. 1996.

Wagner, T.. Towards a Model of WWW Site Response Times. UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 96-19. 1996.

Zilberstein, S, and Lesser, V. Intelligent Information Gathering for Decision Models. UMASS Technical Report 96-35. 1996.