Publications From 2008

Zhang, Haizheng; Lesser, Victor. Toward Peer-to-Peer Based Semantic Search Engines: An Organizational Approach. Paperback. 166 pages., VDM Verlag, Germany. 2008.

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Non-linear Dynamics in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 1321-1324. 2008. (Short paper)

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor; and Miklau, Gerome. Self-interested Database Managers Playing The View Maintenance Game. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFMAAS, pp. 871-878. 2008. (Full paper)

Zafar, Huzaifa and Corkill, Daniel. Simplifying solar harvesting model-development in situated agents using pre-deployment learning and information sharing. Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN-08), pp. 41-48. 2008. (A version of this paper is also available as a UMass Tech Report #08-07)

Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Non-linear Dynamics. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 33, pp. 521-549. 2008.

An, Bo; Douglis, F.; Ye, F. Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization. Proc. of the 7th International Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’08), pp. 551-558. 2008.

An, Bo; Lesser, Victor; Sim, Kwang Mong. Decommitment in Multi-resource Negotiation. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 1553-1556. 2008. (Short paper)

Corkill, Daniel D. Reporting Down Under: A CNAS (Collaborative Network for Atmospheric Sensing) Update. Second International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN-08), pp. 25-32. 2008.

Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor. Using quantitative models to search for appropriate organizational designs. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 16, Number 2, Springer, pp. 95-149. 2008.

Kim, Yoonheui; Lesser, Victor. Finding Minimum Data Requirements Using Pseudo-Independence. 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Volume 2, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 57-64. 2008.

Mostafa, Hala; Lesser, Victor. Approximately Solving Sequential Games with Incomplete Information. Proceedings of the AAMAS’08 Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Multi-Agent Domains, Shen, J.; Varakantham, P.; Maheswaran, R., ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 92-106. 2008.

Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Coordinating Agents’ Meta-level Control. Proceedings of AAAI 2008 Workshop on Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking, AAAI Press. 2008.

Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; Lesser, Victor. Automated Organization Design for Multi-agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 16, Number 2, Springer-Netherlands, pp. 151-185. 2008.

Zafar, Huzaifa; Lesser, Victor; Corkill, Daniel; and Ganesan, Deepak. Using Organization Knowledge to Improve Routing Performance in Wireless Multi-Agent Networks. Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFAAMAS, pp. 821-828. 2008. (Full paper; A longer version of this paper is available as UMass Tech Report #07-68)

Zhang, Chongjie; Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Automated Supervision. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Padgham, Parkes, Müller and Parsons, ed., IFMAAS, pp. 1365-1368. 2008. (Short paper)

Zhang, Chongjie; Abdallah, Sherief; Lesser, Victor. MASPA: Multi-Agent Automated Supervisory Policy Adaptation. University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Department Technical Report, Volume 08, Number 03. 2008.

Zhang, Chongjie; Lesser, Victor; and Shenoy, Prashant. A Multi-Agent Learning Approach to Resource Sharing across Computing Clusters. UMass Computer Science Technical Report UM-CS-2008-035. 2008.