Publications From 2007

Zafar, Huzaifa; Lesser, Victor; and Ganesan, Deepak. Exploiting Organization and Learned Knowledge to Reduce the Exploration Cost of Routing. University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Technical Report #07-68. 2007.

Krainin, Michael; An, Bo; Lesser, Victor. An Application of Automated Negotiation to Distributed Task Allocation. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 138-145. 2007. This is an extended version of the conference paper.

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor. Minimizing Privacy Loss in the View Maintenance Problem. Poster Presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. 2007.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. A Framework for Meta-level Control in Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 15, Number 2, Springer, pp. 147-196. 2007. (An earlier version is available as University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report 2004-094, at: http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~anraja/PAPERS/UM-CS-2004-094.pdf )

An, Bo; Sim, Kwang Mong; Lesser, Victor. Evolving the Best-response Strategy to Decide When to Make a Proposal. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1035-1042. 2007.

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

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Multiagent Reinforcement Learning and Self-Organization in a Network of Agents. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, IFAAMAS, pp. 172-179. 2007. "Best Paper Award" Nominee.

Becker, Raphen; Corkill, Daniel. Determining Confidence when Integrating Contributions from Multiple Agents. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 449-456. 2007.

Corkill, Daniel D.; Holzhauer, Douglas; Koziarz, Walter. Turn Off Your Radios! Environmental Monitoring Using Power-Constrained Sensor Agents. First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN-07), pp. 31-38. 2007.

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. A Reinforcement Learning-based Distributed Search Algorithm for Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Information. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, IFAAMAS, pp. 219-226. 2007.

Zhang, Xiaoqin; Lesser, Victor. Meta-Level Coordination for Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi-Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, IFAAMAS, pp. 50-57. 2007.

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor; and Miklau, Gerome. View Maintenance With Self-Interested Decision Makers. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2007-55. 2007. This is a long version of the AAMAS08 paper.

Shen, Jiaying. Communication Management In Distributed Sensor Interpretation. PhD Thesis. 2007.

Xuan, P.; Lesser, V. Decomposing Centralized Multiagent Policies. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science Technical Report. 2007.