Towards an Understanding of Shared Understanding in Military Coalition Contexts (2009)
Smart, Paul R, Huynh, Trung Dong, Mott, David, Sycara, Katia, Braines, Dave, Strub, Michael, ...
Shared understanding is commonly seen as essential to the success of coalition operations, and current research efforts are attempting to develop techniques and technologies to improve shared...
Hypothesis Pruning and Ranking for Large Plan Recognition Problems (2009)
This paper addresses the problem of plan recognition for multi-agent teams. Complex multi-agent tasks typically require dynamic teams where the team membership changes over time. Teams split into...
The Impact of Vertical Specialization on Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems (2009)
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical structures. In vertically...
Agent-Based Sensor Coalition Formation (2009)
Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Abstract—Large numbers of heterogeneous sensors the collect and fuse information in dynamic environments are envisioned in domains, such as military operations, disaster response or border...
A Mobile Network for Mobile Sensors (2009)
Andrea Simonetto, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Abstract — When cooperative robots are used for exploring an environment, a key component of their task is to relay data back to a human operator and get input from that operator on exploration...
Token-Based Approach for Scalable Team Coordination (2009)
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Summary. Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed....
Martin Kollingbaum, Ivan J. Jureta, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The engineering of heterogenous distributed systems is a complex task. Traditional software engineering methods fail to account for new demands of flexibility and adaptability in the...
Agent Organized Networks Redux (2009)
Robin Glinton, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
Individual robots or agents will often need to form coalitions to accomplish shared tasks, e.g.,in sensor networks or markets. Furthermore, in most real systems it is infeasible for entities to...
Geolocation of RF Emitters by Many UAVs (2009)
Paul Scerri, Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, David Scerri, Katia Sycara
This paper presents an approach to using a large team of UAVs to find radio frequency (RF) emitting targets in a large area. Small, inexpensive UAVs that can collectively and rapidly determine the...
Scaling Effects in Multi-robot Control (2009)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Jijun Wang
Abstract — The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Task performance...
Toward an Understanding of the Impact of Software Personal Assistants on Human Organizations (2009)
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Intelligent software personal assistants for human organizations are an active research area within the multiagent community. However, while many capabilities for these software personal assistants...
Transitioning Multiagent Technology to UAV Applications (2009)
Paul Scerri, Tracy Von Gonten, Gerald Fudge, Sean Owens, Katia Sycara
This paper describes the transition of academically developed multiagent technology for UAV coordination to an industrially developed application. The specific application is the use of lightweight...
The Statistical Mechanics of Belief Sharing in Multi Agent Systems (2009)
Robin Glinton, Katia Sycara, David Scerri, Paul Scerri
Abstract- Many exciting, emerging applications require that a group of agents share a coherent view of the world given spatial distribution, incomplete and uncertain sensors, and communication...
Social Networks for Effective Teams (2009)
Summary. In fields as diverse as sociology and physics researchers have been investigating the rich networks that exist in nature. More recently, a small number of multi-agent researchers have shown...
A Token-Based Approach to Sharing Beliefs in a Large Multiagent Team (2009)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Oleg Prokopyev, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The performance of a cooperative team depends on the views that individual team members build of the environment in which they are operating. Teams with many vehicles and sensors generate a...
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Video in Multi-Robot Search (2009)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Jijun Wang, Huadong Wang, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Camera guided teleoperation has long been the preferred mode for controlling remote robots, with other modes such as asynchronous control only used when unavoidable. In this experiment we evaluate...
Scaling Effects in Multi-robot Control (2009)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
Abstract — The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Task performance...
Smart, Paul R, Mott, David, Sycara, Katia, Braines, Dave, Strub, Michael, Shadbolt, Nigel R
Shared understanding is commonly seen as essential to the success of coalition operations. Anecdotal reports suggest that shared understanding enables coalition forces to coordinate their efforts in...
A Model of Human Teamwork for Agent-Assisted Search Operations (2008)
Dr. Gita Sukthankar, Dr. Katia Sycara, Mr. Joseph, A. Giampapa, Mr. Chris Burnett
Coalition forces are engaged in distributed collaborative decision making in time-pressured, high-stakes situations. Providing automated decision support for such environments is a very challenging...
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Video in Multi-Robot Search (2008)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Jijun Wang, Huadong Wang, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Camera guided teleoperation has long been the preferred mode for controlling remote robots, with other modes such as asynchronous control only used when unavoidable. In this experiment we evaluate...
Evolutionary Games and Social Networks in Adversary Reasoning (2008)
Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri, Anton Chechetka
In this paper, we explore use of evolutionary game theory (EGT) [5] to model the dynamics of adaptive opponent strategies for large population of players and strategies. In particular, we explore...
Insights into the Impact of Social Networks on Evolutionary (2008)
Anton Chechetka, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
In this chapter, we explore the use of evolutionary game theory (EGT) [14, 10, 9] to model the dynamics of adaptive opponent strategies for large population of players. In particular, we explore...
Directing Attention in Virtual Environments (2008)
Stephen Hughes, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
The ability to manipulate viewpoint to the appropriate position requires that the viewer have both a good understanding of the interface and the environment. One paradoxical finding is that while...
The DARPA Agent Markup Language Services ontology (DAML-S) is being (2008)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The DARPA Agent Markup Language ontology for Services (DAML-S) enables the description of Web-based services, such that they can be discovered, accessed and composed dynamically by...
Agent Cloning: An Approach to gent Mobility and Resource Allocation (2008)
Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha
Multi-agent systems are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing tasks to...
Abstract Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations (2008)
Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri, Samvith Srinivas, Michael Lewis
NASA’s operations include many teams of people who must do their own individual tasks and communicate about those tasks to other team members to accomplish team goals. Team tasks are crucial in the...
A POMDP Approach to Token-Based Team Coordination (2008)
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. Token-based...
A Decentralized Approach to Cooperative Situation Assessment in Multi-Robot Systems ABSTRACT (2008)
To act effectively under uncertainty, multi-robot teams need to accurately estimate the state of the environment. Although individual robots, with uncertain sensors, may not be able to accurately...
Experiments in Coordination Demand for MultiRobot Systems (2008)
Jijun Wang, Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Paul Scerri, Prasanna Velagapudi, Katia Sycara
Abstract—Conventional models of multirobot control assume independent robots and tasks. This allows an additive model in which the operator controls robots sequentially neglecting each until its...
Gita Sukthankar, Michael M, Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Michael Mandel, Katia Sycara
Creating physically embodied agents using realistic human motion models
An agent is a computational entity which is capable (to various degrees of): Autonomy: agent is goal-directed and has control over its internal state (can reason and act without direct intervention...
Multimedia queries by example and relevance feedback (2008)
Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, Katia Sycara, Terry Payne
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
Human-Centered Systems Group BBN Technologies (2008)
Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Mark Burstein, Cambridge Ma
The current Web is a collection of human readable pages that are virtually unintelligible to computer programs. In recent years two parallel efforts emerged that have the potential of overcoming this...
8. Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey (2008)
Avast majorityofenterprises continue to operate in the physical world, doing business as usual, but increasingly adopt the Internet in every aspect of their business operations. Internet-based...
Chapter 1 OWL-S AND AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS (2008)
David Martin, Mark Burstein, Sheila Mcilraith, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Abstract: Over the last decade, research in agent-based systems (ABS) has spawned a multi-faceted field, addressing a broad range of challenges and generating a varied array of technical approaches....
DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services The DAML Services Coalition: (2008)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. Mcilraith, ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
ABSTRACT Agent Interoperation Across Multiagent System Boundaries (2008)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, Martin Van Velsen
DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services The DAML Services Coalition: (2008)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. Mcilraith, ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
Service-Oriented Computing Track Michael Huhns, (2008)
Munindar P. Singh, Mark Burstein, Keith Decker, Les Gasser, Hrishikesh Goradia, ...
for Service-Oriented
Extending the ONESAF Testbed (2008)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-woo Seo, Bin Yu, ...
On behalf of:
A Decentralized Approach to Cooperative Situation Assessment in Multi-Robot Systems (2008)
Settembre, Giuseppe, Scerri, Paul, Farinelli, Alessandro, Sycara, Katia, Nardi, Daniele
To act effectively under uncertainty, multi-robot teams need to accurately estimate the state of the environment. Although individual robots, with uncertain sensors, may not be able to accurately...
A Decentralized Approach to Cooperative Situation Assessment in Multi-Robot Systems (2008)
Settembre, Giuseppe, Scerri, Paul, Farinelli, Alessandro, Sycara, Katia, Nardi, Daniele
To act effectively under uncertainty, multi-robot teams need to accurately estimate the state of the environment. Although individual robots, with uncertain sensors, may not be able to accurately...
Leonardo Garrido, Ramon Brena, Katia Sycara
In the framework of meeting scheduling problems, we present an approach where for every agent the behavior of other agents is explained in terms of a common cognitive structure. This structure...
Anandeep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara, Anandeep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara
The WWW is increasingly being used for announcements of important events and solicitations such as conference announcements and requests for proposals. This information is accessed by users using...
Keywords Locating RF Emitters with Large UAV Teams (2008)
Paul Scerri, Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, Steven Okamoto, Katia Sycara
The rapidly improving availability of small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their ever reducing cost is leading to considerable interest in multi-UAV applications. However, while UAVs have...
DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services The DAML Services Coalition: (2008)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. Mcilraith, ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
Software agents represent a radical departure from earlier monolithic approaches to artificial intelligence by introducing intelligence in small packages in many different places. For each instance...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, ...
The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design, implementation, modelling, theory and...
Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations (2008)
Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri, Joseph Giampapa, Samvith Srinivas, Michael Lewis
NASA’s operations include many teams of people who must do their own individual tasks and communicate about those tasks to other team members to accomplish team goals. Team tasks are crucial in the...
> 225 WS < Using DAML-S for P2P Discovery (2008)
Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, Takuya Nishimura, Naveen Srinivasan
Abstract—Mechanisms for Web services Discovery proposed so far have assumed a centralized registry that collects information about all the Web services available at any given time. Centralized...
Maintaining Shared Belief in a Large Multiagent Team (2008)
Prasanna Velagapudi, Oleg Prokopyev, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
Abstract—A cooperative team’s performance strongly depends on the view that the team has of the environment in which it operates. In a team with many autonomous vehicles and many sensors, there...
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
> S1-006 < Towards a Semantic Choreography of Web Services: from WSDL to DAML-S. (2008)
Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara, Takuya Nishimura
Abstract — The relation between DAML-S, a language for the description of Web services grounded in the Semantic Web, and the growing Web services infrastructure based on WSDL is, by an large, still...
Monitoring execution of OWL-S web services (2008)
Abstract. In this paper we describe mechanisms for execution monitoring of OWL-S web services. The described mechanisms are implemented as extensions of the OWL-S Virtual Machine which is a component...
Exploiting Multi-Agent Interactionsfor Identifying the Best-Payoff Information Source (2008)
Abstract In many different applications on the Web, distributedagents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem sincean agent does not know a...
Executing Decision-theoretic Plans in Multi-agent Environments (2008)
Extended Abstract, Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
DEVICE REPRESENTATION FOR BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS OF MECHATRONIC DEVICES (2008)
T. N. Madhusudan, Katia Sycara, D. Navin-chandra
Open issues in the behavioral synthesis of electro-mechanical systems are: (1) developing convenient abstractions for physical principles,(2) dynamic variations of physical variables and (3)...
We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of information agents that coordinate to retrieve, lter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and...
Executing Decision-theoretic Plans in Multi-agent Environments (2008)
Extended Abstract, Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
A Learning Personal Agent (2008)
For Text Filtering, Anandeep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara, Anandeep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara
The WWW is increasingly being used for announcements of important events and solicitations such as conference announcements and requests for proposals. This information is accessed by users using...
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (2008)
Cworld Scientic Publishing, Katia Sycara, Dajun Zeng Y
this paper we present the distributed system architecture, agent collaborationinteractions, and a reusable set of software components for structuring agents. The system architecture has three types...
Towards a Formal Verification of OWL-S (2008)
Process Models Anupriya, Anupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
In this paper, we apply automatic tools to the verification of interaction protocols of Web services described in OWL-S. Specifically, we propose a modeling procedure that preserves the control flow...
Challenges in Building Very Large Teams (2008)
Paul Scerri Yang, Yang Xu, Jumpol Polvichai, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Katia Sycara
Coordination of large numbers of unmanned aerial vehicles is di#cult due to the limited communication bandwidth available to maintain cohesive activity in a dynamic, often hostile and unpredictable...
Safety in the Context of Coordination via (2008)
Adjustable Autonomy Paul, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Milind Tambe
When large heterogeneous robot and agent teams operate in the real-world, it is essential that a human operator has overall control to ensure safety. However, giving an operator the required control...
Algorithm for Combinatorial Coalition Formation and (2008)
Payoff Division In, Katia Sycara
In an electronic marketplace, coalition formation allows buyers to enjoy a price discount for each item, and combinatorial auction enables buyers to place bids for a bundle of items that are...
Advances in web semantics I (2008)
Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Meersman, R., Sycara, Katia
No Abstract available.
Heterogeneity, Root-finding, and Decentralization (2007)
James Thomas Dept, James D Thomas, Katia Sycara
Increasing interest in agent-based systems both in AI (in terms of multiagent systems and distributed artificial intelligence) and in computational approaches to the social sciences calls for a...
Cooperative Intelligent Software Agents (2007)
The availability of network-based information sources and services, along with the wide use of of World Wide Web, presents a great opportunity for enhanced problem solving support that incorporates...
1. THE NEED OF A FLEXIBLE COMPUTATIONAL MODEL (2007)
Davide Brugali, Politecnico Di Torino, Katia Sycara
The goal of this paper is to present how techniques of the Agent Technology have been exploited to enhance software reusability and maintainability. The principal contributions are the de nition of...
SI Technology Development Center Toshiba Corporation (2007)
Junichi Yamamoto, Katia Sycara
Buyer coalitions are beneficial in e-marketplaces because they allow buyers to take advantage of volume discounts. However, existing buyer coalition formation schemes do not provide buyers with any...
The Semantic Web Calendar Agents on the Semantic Web (2007)
James Hendler, Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
The Web was designed to be a distributed information space that seamlessly supports human navigation across related, linked documents on the Internet. Its simplicity of use and the easy way users can...
Uni ed Information and Control Flow in Hierarchical Task Networks (2007)
Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
Much recent planning research has focused on two related issues. First, there has been a strong interest in information-gathering (or \sensing", or \knowledgeproducing") actions....
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Tecnolog'ogico de Monterrey (2007)
Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara
In the framework of meeting scheduling problems, we present an approach where for every agent the behavior of other agents is explained in terms of a common cognitive structure. This structure...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learningto Acquire E ective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2007)
Sachiyo Arai, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Pro t-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Announcements and Notices (2007)
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, ...
TCDE Election Notice and Position Statement.................................................... 50 TCDE Election Ballot.................................................................... back cover...
Multimedia queries by example and relevance feedback (2007)
Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, Katia Sycara, Terry Payne
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial (2007)
Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara, Ram On Brena
This paper presents some of our experimental work in quantifying the value of building models about other agents using no more than the observation of others ' behavior. We view agent modeling...
E ective Learning Approach for Planning and Scheduling in Multi-Agent Domain (2007)
The point we want tomake in this paper is that Pro t-sharing � a reinforcement learning approach isvery appropriate to realize the adaptive behaviors in a multi-agent environment. We discuss the e...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learningto Acquire E ective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2007)
Sachiyo Arai, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Pro t-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services The DAML Services Coalition: (2007)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. Mcilraith, ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
From Data to Actionable Knowledge and Decision 1 (2007)
Northrup Grumman are partnering in early-stage research to address issues in high-level information fusion, including intent inferencing and retasking of sensors and munitions. To help translate...
Terrain-Based Information Fusion and Inference (2007)
Robin Glinton, Chuck Grindle, Joe Giampapa, Mike Lewis, Sean Owens, Katia Sycara
Abstract- A key prerequisite for higher-level fusion is the use of context to disambiguate and interpret sensed data and guide data collection. For ground operations terrain information supplies an...
RCal: An Autonomous Agent for Intelligent Distributed Meeting Scheduling (2007)
not be interpreted as representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed
Integrating Intelligent Agents into Human Teams (2007)
Katia Sycara Carnegie, Katia Sycara
Introduction As the role of teams becomes more important in organizations, developing and maintaining high performance teams has been the goal of several researchers (Decker, Sycara, & Williamson...
Terrain-Based Information Fusion and Inference (2007)
Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, Joe Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Chuck Grindle, Mike Lewis
Abstract- A key prerequisite for higher-level fusion is the use of context to disambiguate and interpret sensed data and guide data collection. For ground operations terrain information supplies an...
An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases (2007)
Steinfeld, Aaron, Sanghi, Ritika, Giampapa, Joeph, Siewiorek, Daniel, Sycara, Katia
As a precursor to explorations on future network interoperability problem resolution methods and tools, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of problems in the present day. The remote network...
Semantic Web Services, Part 2 (2007)
David Martin, John Domingue, Amit Sheth, Steve Battle, Katia Sycara, Dieter Fensel, ...
This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying...
Locating RF Emitters with Large UAV Teams (2007)
Paul Scerri, Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, Katia Sycara
This chapter describes a principled, yet computationally efficient way for a team of UAVs with Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) sensors to locate radio frequency emitting ground vehicles in...
Sean Owens, Paul Scerri, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Katia Sycara
To perform large-scale coordination in real-world environments requires that many individually complex technologies come together to form integrated solutions. We present an application where several...
Paul Scerri, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Katia Sycara
To perform large-scale coordination in real-world environments requires that many individually complex technologies come together to form integrated solutions. In this paper, we present an...
Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition from Spatio-Temporal Agent Traces (2006)
This paper addresses the problem of activity recognition for physically-embodied agent teams. We define team activity recognition as the process of identifying team behaviors from traces of agent...
Cost-Sensitive Access Control for Illegitimate (2006)
Confidential Access By, Young-woo Seo, Katia Sycara
In many organizations, it is common to control access to confidential information based on the need-to-know principle; The requests for access are authorized only if the content of the requested...
Robust Recognition of Physical Team Behaviors Using Spatio-Temporal Models (2006)
This paper presents a framework for robustly recognizing physical team behaviors by exploiting spatio-temporal patterns. Agent team behaviors in athletic and military domains typically exhibit an...
Scaling-up Human Control for Large UAV Teams (2006)
Michael Lewis Jumpol, Michael Lewis, Jumpol Polvichai, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
Introduction Wide Area Search Munitions (WASMs) are a cross between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a munition. With an impressive array of onboard sensors and autonomous flight capabilities WASMs...
A Constraint Optimization Framework for (2006)
Fractured Robot Teams, Mary Koes, Katia Sycara
In dangerous and uncertain environments initial plans must be revised. Communication failures hamper this replanning. We introduce fractured subteams as a novel formalism for modeling breakdowns in...
Combining Multiple Hypotheses for Identifying Human Activities (2006)
Dempster-Shafer theory is one of the predominant methods for combining evidence from different sensors. However, it has been observed that Dempster’s rule of combination may yield inaccurate...
Paul Scerri, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Katia Sycara
To perform large-scale coordination in real-world environments requires that many individually complex technologies come together to form integrated solutions. In this paper, we present an...
On the Beaten Path: Exploitation ofEntities Interactions For Predicting (2006)
Potential Link, Young-woo Seo, Katia Sycara
Abstract We propose a new non-parametric link analysis algorithm that predicts a potentiallink between entities given a set of different relational patterns. The proposed method first represents...
Scalable and reliable data delivery in mobile ad hoc sensor networks (2006)
Bin Yu, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
This paper studies scalable data delivery algorithms in mobile ad hoc sensor networks with node and link failures. Many algorithms have been developed for data delivery and fusion in static...
Combining Multiple Hypotheses forIdentifying Human Activities (2006)
Abstract Dempster-Shafer theory is one of the predominant methods for combining evidencefrom different sensors. However, it has been observed that Dempster's rule of combination may yield...
Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Human Teamwork
Both human collaboration and software agent collaboration have been thoroughly studied, but there is relatively little research on hybrid human-agent teamwork. Some research has identified the roles...
On the Beaten Path: Exploitation of Entities Interactions For Predicting Potential Link (2006)
We propose a new non-parametric link analysis algorithm that predicts a potential link between entities given a set of different relational patterns. The proposed method first represents different...
Scalable and reliable data delivery in mobile ad hoc sensor networks (2006)
Bin Yu, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara
This paper studies scalable data delivery algorithms in mobile ad hoc sensor networks with node and link failures. Many algorithms have been developed for data delivery and fusion in static...
Backtracking Techniques for Hard Scheduling Problems (2005)
Sadeh, Norman, Sycara, Katia, Xiong, Yalin
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i. e. earliest/latest possible start time windows)....
Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue (2005)
Nourbakhsh, Illah R., Sycara, Katia, Koes, Mary, Yong, Mark, Burion, Steve
This work establishes an architecture for Urban Search and Rescue and a methodology for mixing real-world and simulation-based testing. A sensor suite and sensor fusion algorithm for robust victim...
RoboCupRescue- Robot League Team (2005)
Anton Chetchetka, Steven Hughes, Robin Glinton, Mary Koes, Illah Nourbakhsh, David Rosenberg, ...
Abstract. A heterogeneous team of robots, agents, and people can collaborate to efficiently explore a disaster area and rescue as many victims as possible. RAPTOR (Robots-Agents-People Team:...
Identifying physical team behaviors from spatial relationships (2005)
team behaviors is recognizing subtle spatial relationships between physical entities: opponents waiting in ambush, teammates organizing around a rendez-vous point, and potentially dangerous...
An integrated token-based algorithm for scalable coordination (2005)
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. However,...
Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue (2005)
Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Katia Sycara, Mary Koes, Mark Yong, Michael Lewis, ...
The program is also researching systemlevel design, evaluation, and refinement of USAR rescue architectures that include teams of sensorladen robots and human rescuers. Here, we present highlights...
An Integrated Token-Based Algorithm for Scalable (2005)
Coordination Yang Xu, Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael Lewis, ...
E#cient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. However, state...
Towards Flexible Coordination of Large Scale Multi-Agent Teams (2005)
Yang Xu, Elizabeth Liao, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Mike Lewis, Katia Sycara
this paper, we address the limitations of existing models as they apply to very large agent teams. We develop algorithms aimed at flexible and e#cient coordination, applying a decentralized social...
A Decentralized Variable Ordering (2005)
Method For Distributed, Anton Chechetka, Katia Sycara
Many di#erent multi-agent problems, such as distributed scheduling can be formalized as distributed constraint optimization. Ordering the constraint variables is an important preprocessing step of...
Identifying Physical Team Behaviors from Spatial Relationships (2005)
An important part of classifying MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) team behaviors is recognizing subtle spatial relationships between physical entities: opponents waiting in ambush,...
Automatic Recognition of Human Team Behaviors (2005)
This paper describes a methodology for recording, representing, and recognizing team behaviors performed by human players in an Unreal Tournament MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) scenario.
A POMDP Approach to Token-Based Team Coordination (2005)
Yang Xu Paul, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
E#cient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. Token-based...
A Cost Minimization Approach to Human Behavior Recognition (2005)
This paper presents a cost minimization approach to the problem of human behavior recognition. Using full-body motion capture data acquired from human subjects, our system recognizes the behaviors...
An Integrated Token-Based Algorithm for Scalable (2005)
Coordination Yang Xu, Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael Lewis, ...
E#cient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be performed. However, state...
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2005)
David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila Mcilraith, Mark Burstein, Drew Mcdermott, Deborah McGuinness, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
An evidential model of multisensor decision fusion for force aggregation and classification (2005)
Bin Yu, Joseph Giampapa, Sean Owens, Katia Sycara
This paper describes airborne sensor networks for target detection and identification in military applications. One challenge is how to process and aggregate data from many sensor sources to generate...
A Decentralized Variable Ordering Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization (2005)
k is maximum block size in constraint graph. The algorithmhas space complexity of O(kn) and time complexity of O(n+|E|+k 32 n 12), where E is the set of edges in a constraint graph.
Intent Inference Using Potential Field Model of Environmental (2005)
Robin Glinton, Sean Owens, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
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Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process 1 (2005)
Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, Joseph Giampapa
contract number N6610-98-D-9501 In this report, we first discuss the modeling context that is suitable for the multi-attribute negotiations in the Navy detailing process. Then, we present the model...
Young-woo Seo, Drew Bagnell, Katia Sycara
It is common to control access to critical information based on the need-to-know principle; The requests for access are authorized only if the content of the requested information is relevant to the...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
Bilateral negotiation decisions with uncertain dynamic outside options (2004)
Cuihong Li, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
Negotiation is an important phase of e-contracting. E-contracting requires a proper negotiation model to effectively support negotiation decisions or automate the negotiation process. When an entity...
Bin Yu, Katia Sycara, Joseph Giampapa, Sean Owens
The paper describes airborne sensor networks for target tracking and identification in military applications. The raw information about targets from airborne sensors is uncertain and often noisy. One...
New Orleans, Michael Coblenz, Jeffrey Gennari, Mary Koes, Michael Lewis, Tomasz Loboda, ...
Abstract. Heterogeneous teams of robots, cyber agents, and people working can work together to search an urban disaster site much more safely, efficiently, and quickly than human rescue workers...
Authorization and privacy for semantic web services (2004)
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
for security and privacy is paramount to the success of
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila Mcilraith, Mark Burstein, Drew Mcdermott, Deborah Mcguinness, ...
Abstract. Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic...
Feature selection for extracting semantically rich words (2004)
Young-woo Seo, Anupriya Ankolekar, Katia Sycara
The utility of semantic knowledge, in the form of ontologies, is widely acknowledged. In particular, semantic knowledge facilitates integration, visualization, and maintenance of information from...
Authorization and privacy for semantic web services (2004)
Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin, Katia Sycara
In this paper we address security of semantic Web services that are declaratively described in OWL-S. We propose ontologies to annotate OWL-S input and output parameters with respect to their...
Sycara.: Text Clustering for Topic Detection (2004)
The world wide web represents vast stores of information. However, the sheer amount of such information makes it practically impossible for any human user to be aware of much of it. Therefore, it...
Robin Glinton, Joseph Giampapa, Sean Owens, Katia Sycara, Charles Grindle, Michael Lewis
Terrain information supplies an important context for ground operations. The layout of terrain is a determining factor in arraying of forces, both friendly and enemy, and the structuring of Courses...
Securing Multi Agent Societies (2004)
Rahul Singh Carnegie, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
When large Multi Agent Systems operate over open platforms such as the Internet, there is the possibility that some agents will endeavor to disrupt the MAS with the aim of achieving their own agendas...
Modeling Physical Variability for Synthetic MOUT Agents (2004)
Gita Sukthankar, Michael Mandel, Katia Sycara, Jessica Hodgins
Generating behavioral variability is an important prerequisite in the development of synthetic MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) agents for military simulations. Agents that lack...
Adjustable Autonomy in the Context of Coordination (2004)
Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Milind Tambe
this paper, we describe this approach and present initial results from interaction between a large number of UAVs and a small number of humans
Financial News Analysis for Intelligent Portfolio Management (2004)
Young-woo Seo, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
In this paper, we present Warren, a multi-agent system for intelligent portfolio management, which is motivated by the great benefits of working in teams within the domain of Distributed Artificial...
Information Sharing in Large Scale Teams (2004)
Yang Xu Michael, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
Eective communication among agents in large teams is crucial because the members share a common goal but only have a partial views of the environment. Information sharing is dicult in a large team...
Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams (2004)
Paul Scerri Yang, Yang Xu, Elizabeth Liao, Justin Lai, Katia Sycara
As a paradigm for coordinating cooperative agents in dynamic environments, teamwork has been shown to be capable of leading to flexible and robust behavior. However, when we apply teamwork to the...
Extending the ONESAFTestbed (2004)
Into Isr Testbed, Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-woo Seo, ...
This article describes how the modeling and simulation environment of the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) v1.0 has been extended to enable the testing of heterogeneous algorithms that are being...
Feature Selection for Extracting (2004)
Semantically Rich Words, Young-woo Seo, Anupriya Ankolekar, Katia Sycara
The utility of semantic knowledge, in the form of ontologies, is widely acknowledged. In particular, semantic knowledge facilitates integration, visualization, and maintenance of information from...
Stable And Efficient, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara
Task execution in a multi-agent, multi-task environment often requires allocation of agents to di#erent tasks and cooperation among agents. Agents usually have limited resources that cannot be...
Adjustable Autonomy in the Context of Coordination (2004)
Paul Scerri And, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Milind Tambe
this paper, we describe this approach and present initial results from interaction between a large number of UAVs and a small number of humans
Automating Terrain Analysis: (2004)
Algorithms For Intelligence, Charles Grindle, Michael Lewis, Robin Glinton, Joseph Giampapa, Sean Owens, ...
this paper, we present a set of algorithms and tools for automating terrain analysis and compare their results with those of experienced intelligence analysts
Financial News Analysis for Intelligent (2004)
Young-woo Seo, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
In this paper, we present Warren, a multi-agent system for intelligent portfolio management, which is motivated by the great benefits of working in teams within the domain of Distributed Artificial...
Adding OWL-S to UDDI, implementation and throughput (2004)
Naveen Srinivasan, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The increasing availability of web services demands for a discovery mechanism to find services that satisfy our requirement. UDDI provides a web wide registry of web services, but its lack...
Expressing WSMO Mediators in OWLS (2004)
Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The WSMO/WSML/WSMX initiative and the OWL-S initiative aim at similar goals: providing a support for Semantic Web services. Despite the similarity of the ultimate goal, the two approaches...
An efficient algorithm for OWL-S based semantic search (2004)
Naveen Srinivasan, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The increasing availability of web services demands for a discovery mechanism to find services that satisfy our requirement. UDDI provides a web wide registry of web services, but its lack...
Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Test Bed (2004)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-woo Seo, Bin Yu, ...
This paper describes how the modeling and simulation environment of the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) v1.0 has been extended to enable the testing of heterogeneous algorithms that are being designed...
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila Mcilraith, Mark Burstein, Drew Mcdermott, Deborah Mcguinness, ...
Abstract. Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic...
A Broker for OWL-S Web Services (2004)
Massimo Paolucci, Julien Soudry, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara
Brokers are widely used in distributed information systems such as Multi-agent systems and distributed databases. Yet, there has not been a detailed analysis of Brokers ’ architecture and no...
Anupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In this paper, we apply automatic tools to the verification of interaction protocols of Web services described in OWL-S. Specifically, we propose a modeling procedure that preserves the...
Developing a Testbed for Studying Human-robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue (2003)
Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Illah Nourbakhsh
We are developing simulations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Test Facility for Autonomous Mobile Robots (Urban Search and Rescue) in order to develop and test...
Delivering Semantic Web Services (2003)
Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, Takahiro Kawamura
The growing infrastructure for Web Services assumes a "programmer in the loop " that hardcodes the connections between Web Services and directly programs Web Service composition....
The RETSINA MAS, a case study (2003)
Katia Sycara, Joseph A. Giampapa, Brent Langley, Massimo Paolucci
Abstract. In this paper we identify challenges that confront the largescale multi-agent system (LMAS) designer, and claim that these challenges can be successfully addressed by agent-based software...
Information Discovery and Fusion: Semantics on the Battlefield (2003)
Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Michael Lewis
To help translate information superiority to decision superiority (i.e. to rapidly arrive at better decisions than adversaries can respond to), many scientific, technical and technological challenges...
Toward a Semantic Web e-commerce (2003)
Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, Takuya Nishimura, Naveen Srinivasan
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. In this paper we show how ontological information improves on the growing...
Investigating Semantic Knowledge for Text Learning (2003)
Anupriya Ankolekar Forbes, Young-woo Seo, Katia Sycara
Recent work has made much of using semantic knowledge, derived in particular from domain ontologies, for improving text learning tasks. Semantic knowledge is assumed to capture more in-depth...
Addressing Challenges to Open Source Collaboration (2003)
With The Semantic, Anupriya Ankolekar, James D. Herbsleb, Katia Sycara
Despite the remarkable success of open source software, there are a number of challenges to collaboration in open source software development, in particular, with respect to supporting collaboration...
Preliminary Report of Public Experiment of (2003)
Semantic Service Matchmaker, Takahiro Kawamura, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
The public experiment of the semantic service search with the public UDDI registry is shown in this paper. The UDDI is a standard registry for Web Services, but if we consider it as a search engine,...
Autonomous Semantic Web Services (2003)
Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
This article describes DAML-S and some example computational models that show how it can be viewed as the first step in bridging the gap between the Semantic Web and proposed industry standards for...
An examination of remote access help desk cases (2003)
Aaron Steinfeld, Ritika Sanghi, Joseph Giampapa, Daniel Siewiorek, Katia Sycara
As a precursor to explorations on future network interoperability problem resolution methods and tools, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of problems in the present day. The remote network...
An examination of remote access help desk cases (2003)
Aaron Steinfeld, Ritika Sanghi, Joseph Giampapa, Daniel Siewiorek, Katia Sycara
As a precursor to explorations on future network interoperability problem resolution methods and tools, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of problems in the present day. The remote network...
Two-sided matching for the navy detailing process with market complication (2003)
Wei Yang, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
The U.S. Navy detailing process is the matching process for assigning Sailors to available billets. This paper studies a new two-sided matching process for the detailing process to reduce the number...
Navy Detailing Process, (2003)
For The, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, Joseph Giampapa
We provide an integrative solution for negotiations in the Navy detailing process considering the uncertain and dynamic outside options. The outside options influence the negotiation strategies via...
Navy Detailing Process, (2003)
Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, Joseph Giampapa
We propose a nested model for negotiations in the Navy detailing process considering the uncertain and dynamic outside options. The model is composed of three modules, single-threaded negotiations,...
An examination of remote access help desk cases (2003)
Aaron Steinfeld, Ritika Sanghi, Joseph Giampapa, Daniel Siewiorek, Katia Sycara
As a precursor to explorations on future network interoperability problem resolution methods and tools, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of problems in the present day. The remote network...
Mechanisms for Coalition Formation and Cost Sharing in an Electronic Marketplace (2003)
Cuihong Li, Shuchi Chawla, Uday Rajan, Katia Sycara
In this paper we study the mechanism design problem of coalition formation and cost sharing in an electronic marketplace, where buyers can form coalitions to take advantage of discounts based on...
A Review of Research Literature on Bilateral Negotiations (2003)
Cuihong Li, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
Automated bilateral negotiations are an important mechanism to realize ecient distributed matching in the Navy detailing system, and the presence of outside options is an outstanding feature of the...
Automated discovery, interaction and composition of Semantic Web Services (2003)
Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Anupriya Ankolekar, Naveen Srinivasan
In this paper, we introduce a vision for Semantic Web services which combines the growing Web services architecture and the Semantic Web and we will propose DAML-S as a prototypical example of an...
DAML-S: Semantic Markup ForWeb Services (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McIlraith, Sheila A., ...
The SemanticWeb should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
Text Classification for Intelligent Portfolio Management (CMU-RI-TR-02-14 (2002)
Young-woo Seo, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
In the application domain of stock portfolio management, software agents that evaluate the risks associated with the individual companies of a portfolio should be able to read electronic news...
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. A fundamental step toward this interoperation is the ability of...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with (2002)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The DARPA Agent Markup Language ontology for Services (DAML-S) enables the description of Web-based services, such that they can be discovered, accessed and composed dynamically by...
Design of a multi-unit double auction e-market (2002)
Pu Huang, Alan Scheller-wolf, Katia Sycara
¡ This paper has been accepted for publication in Computational Intelligence.
DAML-S: Web service description for the semantic web (2002)
Daml-s Coalition, Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, Drew Mcdermott, ...
Abstract. In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services – Web-accessible programs and devices – are garnering a...
Concurrent Semantics for the Web Services Specification Language Daml-S (2002)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara
fhuinformatik.uni-kiel.de Abstract. The DARPA Agent Markup Language ontology for Services (DAML-S) enables the description of Web-based services, such that they can be discovered, accessed and...
Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with Subtypes (2002)
Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara
fhuinformatik.uni-kiel.de Abstract. The DARPA Agent Markup Language ontology for Services (DAML-S) enables the description of Web-based services, such that they can be discovered, accessed and...
Processing Schedules Using Distributed Ontologies on the Semantic (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web uses formal distributed ontologies for representing relationships among concepts in the real world. A structured framework such as this allows agents to peruse and reason...
Browsing schedules - an agent-based approach to navigating the semantic web (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts...
Browsing schedules - an agent-based approach to navigating the semantic web (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts...
DAML-S: Web service description for the semantic web (2002)
Daml-s Coalition, Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David Martin, ...
Abstract. In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services – Web-accessible programs and devices – are garnering a...
LARKS: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace (2002)
Abstract. Service matchmaking among heterogeneous software agents in the Internet is usually done dynamically and must be efficient. There is an obvious trade-off between the quality and efficiency...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The rst step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. A fundamental step toward this interoperation is the ability of...
contract N00014-96-122. The authors thank Professor R. Ravi and Alan Andrew Scheller-Wolf for their helpful advice about this work. In an electronic marketplace coalition formation allows buyers to...
Text Classification for Intelligent (2002)
Young-woo Seo, Joseph Giampapa, Katia Sycara
In the application domain of stock portfolio management, software agents that evaluate the risks associated with the individual companies of a portfolio should be able to read electronic news...
their helpful advice about this work. In an electronic marketplace coalition formation allows buyers to enjoy a price discount for each item while combinatorial auction enables buyers to place bids...
On Measuring the Usefulness of Modeling in a Competitive And Cooperative Environment (2002)
Leonardo Garrido, Ramon Brena, Katia Sycara
This paper presents recent results of our experimental work in quantifying exactly how useful is building models about other agents using no more than the observation of others' behavior. The...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Daml-s Coalition, Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David Martin, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services { Web-accessible programs and devices { are garnering a great deal of...
Multimedia Queries by Example and Relevance Feedback (2001)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
Multimedia Queries by Example and Relevance Feedback (2001)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
Multimedia Queries by Example and Relevance Feedback (2001)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
Communicating Agents in Open Multi Agent Systems (2001)
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. Agents often utilise the services of other agents to perform tasks within multi agent systems. To achieve this, an agent must fh'st locate another agent that has the capability to...
The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure (2001)
Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Martin Van Velsen, Joseph Giampapa
RETSINA is an implemented Multi-Agent System infrastructure that has been developed for several years and applied in many domains ranging from nancial portfolio management to logistic planning. In...
Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination (2001)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara
Abstract. This paper describes a prototype in which a conversational case-based reasoner, NaCoDAE, was agentified and inserted in the RETSINA multi-agent system. Its task was to determine agent roles...
Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination (2001)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara
Abstract. This paper describes a prototype in which a conversational case-based reasoner, NaCoDAE, was agentified and inserted in the RETSINA multi-agent system. Its task was to determine agent roles...
The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure (2001)
Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Martin Van Velsen, Joseph Giampapa
RETSINA is an implemented Multi-Agent System infrastructure that has been developed for several years and applied in many domains ranging from nancial portfolio management to logistic planning. In...
Matthew R. Glickman, Katia Sycara
Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems with hidden state present significant obstacles to prevailing RL methods. In this paper, we present experiments conducted using a straightforward approach to...
Interaction without commitments: An initial approach (2001)
Gregg Economou, Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci
Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination (2001)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara
Abstract. This paper describes a prototype in which a conversational case-based reasoner, NaCoDAE, was agenti ed and inserted in the RET-SINA multi-agent system. Its task was to determine agent roles...
Multimedia Queries by Example and Relevance Feedback (2001)
Leejay Wu Christos, Christos Faloutsos, Katia Sycara, Terry Payne
We describe the FALCON system for handling multimedia queries with relevance feedback. FALCON distinguishes itself in its ability to handle even disjunctive queries on metric spaces. Our experiments...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multiagent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multiagent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to learn robust...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification, and...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to learn robust...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification, and...
The phase transition in distributed constraint satisfaction problems: First results (2000)
Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo, Katia Sycara
We examine the behavior of a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm. More specifically, we measured the communication and computation costs of a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm...
Reasons for premature convergence of self-adapting mutation rates (2000)
Matthew R. Glickman, Katia Sycara
self-adapt ([Schwefel, 1981] , [Fogel et al., 1991]) a search parameter, rather than fixing the parameter globally before search begins the value is encoded in each individual along with the other...
Apst homepage," http://grail.sdsc.edu/projects/apst (2000)
Matthew R. Glickman, Katia Sycara
Evolvability is key to the adaptive potential of an evolving system. Evolvability itself may be subject to evolution, and this process can greatly enhance or substantially inhibit a system's...
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Conflict Resolution in a Dynamic Domain (2000)
nces, since it is very difficult to know in advance what effective action should be taken at each possible state of the environment. Each transporter agent is modeled as a reinforcement learning...
Matchmaking to Support Intelligent Agents for Portfolio Management (2000)
Massimo Paolucci, Zhendong Niu, Katia Sycara, Constantine Domashnev, Sean Owens, Martin Van Velsen
A-Match is a matchmaking system that allows agents to enter and exit the system dynamically. It employs a Matchmaker to support agents in the system in their exchange of services. A-Match lets human...
Integrating Genetic Algorithms and Text Learning for Financial Prediction (2000)
This paper takes two approaches to prediction of financial markets using text data downloaded from web bulletin boards. The first uses maximum entropy text classification to predict based on the...
Multiple Negotiations among Agents for a Distributed Meeting Scheduler (2000)
Toramatsu Shintani, Takayuki Ito, Katia Sycara
We present a method for multi-agent negotiation for implementing a distributed meeting scheduler. In the meeting scheduler, an agent negotiates with other agents about making an public schedule by...
Agent-Based Aiding For Individual And Team Planning Tasks (2000)
Terri L. Lenox, Terry Payne, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
INTRODUCTION Our research focuses on techniques, which enable us to communicate with software agents. While much of the early focus on decision aids has been on supporting the individual [1], we...
Agent Interoperation Across Multagent System Boundaries (2000)
Joseph A. Giampapa, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara
Recently the number of autonomous agents and multiagent systems (MAS) that have been developed by different developers has increased. Despite efforts for the creation of standards (eg. in...
AI has long been applied to the problem of predicting financial markets. Recently, developments in both AI and financial economics have opened up the possibility for close collaboration between the...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Leejay Wu Christos, Christos Faloutsos, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specication,...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Sachiyo Arai Katia, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
This paper uses an extended Pursuit Game where there exist multiple preys and multiple hunters as shown in Figure1(a). Each hunter is assumed to be a learning agent, whereas the prey does not learn...
BiddingBot: A Multiagent Support System for Cooperative Bidding in Multiple Auctions (2000)
Takayuki Ito, Naoki Fukuta, Toramatsu Shintani, Katia Sycara
Online auctions are becoming an increasingly important channel for electronic commerce. There exist more than 150 online auction sites on the Internet. It is difficult for users to attend, monitor,...
A Taxonomy of Middle-agents for the Internet (2000)
Chi Wong And, H. Chi Wong, Katia Sycara
Like middle-men in physical world, middle-agents assist in locating and connecting the ultimate (information or goods) provider with the ultimate requester in the electronic world. In this paper, we...
Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets (2000)
Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia Sycara
1 In the last few years, the electronic marketplace has witnessed an exponential growth in worth and size, and projections are for this trend to intensify in coming years. Yet, the tools available to...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification,...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
Matchmaking among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet (1999)
Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu Y, Matthias Klusch, Seth Wido
The Internet is not only providing data for users to browse, but also databases to query, and software agents to run. Due to the exponential increase of deployed agents on the Internet, automating...
Dynamic service matchmaking among agents in open information environments (1999)
Katia Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Wido, Jianguo Lu
The amount of services and deployed software
Agent aided aircraft maintenance (1999)
Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar
Aircraft maintenance is performed by mechanics who are required, for non-standard discrepancies, to consult expert engineers for repair instructions and approval. In addition to their own experience,...
Evolution of goal-directed behavior from limited information in a complex environment (1999)
Matthew R. Glickman, Katia Sycara
In this paper, we apply an evolutionary algorithm to learning behavior on a novel, interesting task to explore the general issue of learning effective behaviors in a complex environment that provides...
Comparing mechanisms for evolving evolvability (1999)
Matthew Glickman, Katia Sycara
In evolutionary search, the term evolvability as defined in [Altenberg 94] refers to "the ability of a population to produce variants fitter than any yet existing". In this paper,...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Terri L. Lenox, Terry Payne, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
A genetic programming system for data mining trading rules out of past foreign exchange data is described. The system is tested on real data from the dollar/yen and dollar/DM markets, and shown to...
Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents (1999)
Daniel Dajun Zeng, Katia Sycara
Electronic commerce and the vast amounts of real-time information available through means of EDI and the Internet are reshaping the way enterprises conduct business. A new computational...
Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance (1999)
Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Vick Mukherjee
Aircraft maintenance is performed by mechanics who are required, by regulation, to consult expert engineers for repair instructions and approval. In addition to their own experience, these engineers...
Adding Security and Trust to Multi-Agent Systems (1999)
Multi-agent systems (MASs) are societies whose individuals are software-delegatees (agents) acting on behalf of their owners or delegators (people or organizations). When deployed in an open network...
Matchmaking among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet (1999)
Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff
The Internet is not only providing data for users to browse, but also databases to query, and software agents to run. Due to the exponential increase of deployed agents on the Internet, automating...
Matchmaking among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet (1999)
Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff
The Internet not only provides data for users to browse, but also databases to query, and software agents to run. Due to the exponential increase of deployed agents on the Internet, automating the...
Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents (1999)
Matthias Klusch, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Katia Sycara
Electronic commerce and the vast amounts of real-time information available through means of EDI and the Internet are reshaping the way enterprises conduct business. A new computational...
Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments (1999)
Katia Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, Jianguo Lu
Introduction The amount of services and deployed software agents in the most famous offspring of the Internet, the World Wide Web, is exponentially increasing. In addition, the Internet is an open...
Matchmaking among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet (1999)
Katia Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Jianguo Lu
The Internet is not only providing data for users to browse, but also databases to query, and software agents to run. Due to the exponential increase of deployed agents on the Internet, automating...
Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance (1999)
Onn Shehory Katia, Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Vick Mukherjee
Aircraft maintenance is performed by mechanics who are required, by regulation, to consult expert engineers for repair instructions and approval. In addition to their own experience, these engineers...
Adding Security and Trust to Multi-Agent Systems (1999)
Multi-agent systems (MASs) are societies whose individuals are software-delegatees (agents) acting on behalf of their owners or delegators (people or organizations). When deployed in an open network...
In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents (1999)
Although the number and availability of electronic information sources are increasing, current information technology requires manual manipulation and userspeci cation of all details. Once accessed,...
Enterprise Management Network Architecture Distributed Knowledge Base Support. (1998)
Roboam, Michel, Fox, Mark S., Sycara, Katia
Achieving manufacturing efficiency requires that many groups that comprise a manufacturing enterprise, such as design, planning, production, distribution, field service, accounting, sales and...
Enterprise Management Network Architecture: The Organization Layer. (1998)
Roboam, Michel, Fox, Mark S., Sycara, Katia
Achieving manufacturing efficiency requires that many groups that comprise a manufacturing enterprise, such as design, planning, production, distribution, field service, accounting, sales and...
Miyashita, Kazuo, Sycara, Katia
Practical scheduling problems generally require allocation of resources in the presence of a large, diverse and typically conflicting set of constraints and optimization criteria. The...
Backtracking Techniques for the Job Shop Scheduling Constraint Satisfaction Problem. (1998)
Sadeh, Norman, Sycara, Katia, Xiong, Yalin
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i.e. earliest/latest possible start time windows)....
Knowledge-Based Logistics Planning: Its Application in Manufacturing and Logistics Planning. (1998)
Muscettola, Nicola, Roth, Steve, Sadeh, Norman, Sycara, Katia
This document summarizes research in CORTES, a project in constraint-based planning, scheduling, and control for complex large-scale domains such as military transportation and manufacturing. The...
Cooperative Intelligent Software Agents. (1998)
The availability of network-based information sources and services, along with the wide use of of World Wide Web, presents a great opportunity for enhanced problem solving support that incorporates...
Practical optimization problems such as job-shop scheduling of-ten involve optimization criteria that change over time. Repair-based frameworks have been identified as flexible computational...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (1998)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia, databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that...
Effective Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents for Command and Control (1998)
Sycara, Katia, Giampapa, Joseph, Rectenwald, Michael D.
RETSINA (REusable Task-based System of Intelligent Network Agents) is an open Multi-Agent System (MAS) in which heterogeneous agents engage in relations with the support of distributed infrastructure...
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development (1998)
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia Sycara
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications, and to indicate...
Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha
Multi-agent systems are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing tasks to...
Towards modeling other agents: A simulation-based study (1998)
Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In this paper, we present some of our ongoing experimental research towards investigating advantages of modeling other agents in multiagent environments. We attempt to quantify the value or...
Evolutionary Algorithms: Exploring the Dynamics of Self-Adaptation (1998)
Matthew Glickman, Katia Sycara
Self-adaptation refers to allowing characteristics of search--most often mutation rates--to evolve on a perindividual basis rather than be specified by the user. This practice is gaining increasing...
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development (1998)
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia Sycara
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications, and to indicate...
Reaching Agreements Through Argumentation: A Logical Model and Implementation (1998)
Sarit Kraus, Katia Sycara, Amir Evenchik
In a multi-agent environment, where self-motivated agents try to pursue their own goals, cooperation cannot be taken for granted. Cooperation must be planned for and achieved through communication...
Strategies for Querying Information Agents (1998)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
. In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of designing...
Towards A Secure Agent Society (1998)
We present a general view of what a "secure agent society" should be and how to develop it rather than focus on any specific details or particular agent-based application. We believe that...
Interoperability among Heterogeneous Software Agents on the Internet (1998)
Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu, Matthias Klusch
Due to the exponential increase of offered services in the most famous offspring of the Internet...
Agent Cloning: An Approach to Agent Mobility and Resource Allocation (1998)
Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing...
Recursive Query Rewriting by Transforming Logic Programs (1998)
Jianguo Lu, Liren Chen, Katia Sycara, Jian Lu
This paper proposes to rewrite database queries by logic program transformations. Query rewriting refers to the activity of determining if and how a query can be answered using a given set of...
A Solution to Open Standard of PKI (1998)
Qi He, Katia Sycara, Zhongmin Su
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is fundamental for many security applications on the network. However, there are so many different kinds of PKI at current stage and they are not compatible. To solve...
In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents (1998)
Although the number and availability of electronic information sources are increasing, current information technology requires manual manipulation and userspecification of all details. Once accessed,...
WebMate: A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching (1998)
The World-Wide Web is developing very fast. Currently, finding useful information on the Web is a time consuming process. In this paper, we present WebMate, an agent that helps users to effectively...
Personal Security Agent: KQML-Based PKI (1998)
Qi He, Katia Sycara, Tim Finin
Certificate management infrastructure, a.k.a. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which issues and provides access to public key certificates to preserve the integrity of a public key, is fundamental...
Heterogeneity, Root-finding, and Decentralization (1998)
Increasing interest in agent-based systems both in AI (in terms of multiagent systems and distributed artificial intelligence) and in computational approaches to the social sciences calls for a...
Strategies for Querying Information Agents (1998)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
. In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of designing...
Multi-agent Coordination through Coalition Formation (1998)
Onn M. Shehory, Katia Sycara, Somesh Jha
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formation was addressed in...
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems (1998)
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two approaches are...
WebMate: A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching (1998)
The World-Wide Web is developing very fast. Currently, #nding useful information on the Web is a time consuming process. In this paper, we presentWebMate, an agent that helps users to e#ectively...
Towards a Secure Agent Society (1998)
We present a general view of what a \secure agent society " should be and how todevelop it rather than focus on any speci c details or particular agent-based application. We believe that the...
Towards modeling other agents: A simulation-based study (1998)
Leonardo Garrido, Ramon Brena, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In this paper, we present some of our ongoing experimental research towards investigating advantages of modeling other agents in multiagent environments. We attempt to quantify the value or...
Intelligent Agents in Portfolio Management (1998)
Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, Dajun Zeng
The voluminous and readily available information on the Internet has given rise to exploration of Intelligent Agent technology for accessing, ltering, evaluating and integrating information. In...
A Solution to Open Standard of PKI (1998)
Qi He, Katia Sycara, Zhongmin Su
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is fundamental for many security applications on the network. However, there are so many di erent kinds of PKI at current stage and they are not compatible. To solve...
Agent Technology: A New Frontier for the Development of Application Frameworks? (1998)
Introduction Due to advances in networking technology, increasingly heterogeneous distributed computing resources are becoming available on the Internet. This proliferation has introduced new...
Strategies for querying information agents (1998)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of “querying agents ” can send queries to a collection of “information agents”, we formalize the problem of designing strategies...
Katia Sycara, Anandeep S. Pannu
explicates the unifying organizational and architectural ideas and demonstrates their applicability to various dynamic domains (e.g. Financial Portfolio Management, Distributed Calendar Scheduling,...
Strategies for querying information agents (1998)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of “querying agents ” can send queries to a collection of “information agents”, we formalize the problem of designing strategies...
Heterogeneity, Stability and Efficiency in Distributed Systems (1998)
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two approaches are...
Towards Agent Oriented Application Frameworks (1998)
Davide Brugali, Politecnico Di Torino, Katia Sycara
ing with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of this work in other works, requires prior specific permission...
Strategies for querying information agents (1998)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
Abstract. In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of “querying agents ” can send queries to a collection of “information agents”, we formalize the problem of designing strategies...
Using Option Pricing to Value Commitment Flexibility in Multi-agent Systems, (1997)
With the explosive growth of internet activity, there will be an increasing reliance on intelligent software agents for electronic commerce and information retrieval. Such multi-agents systems will...
How can an agent learn to negotiate (1997)
Negotiation has been extensively discussed in game-theoretic, economic, and management science literatures for decades. Recent growing interest in autonomous interacting software agents and their...
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems (1997)
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two approaches are...
Middle-Agents for the Internet (1997)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
Like middle-men in physical commerce, middleagents support the flow of information in electronic commerce, assisting in locating and connecting the ultimate information provider with the ultimate...
Middle-Agents for the Internet (1997)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
Like middle-men in physical commerce, middleagents support the flow of information in electronic commerce, assisting in locating and connecting the ultimate information provider with the ultimate...
Query Restart Strategies for Web Agents (1997)
Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara
With the explosive growth of the internet, autonomous agents will increasingly need strategies for efficiently retrieving information. The time an agent (or server) takes to answer a query issued to...
Benefits of Learning in Negotiation (1997)
Negotiation has been extensively discussed in gametheoretic, economic, and management science literatures for decades. Recent growing interest in electronic commerce has given increased importance to...
Designing Behaviors for Information Agents (1997)
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Eep Pannu, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors. Our current focus...
Using Option Pricing to Value Commitment Flexibility in Multi-agent Systems (1997)
With the explosive growth of internet activity, there will be an increasing reliance on intelligent software agents for electronic commerce and information retrieval. Such multi-agents systems will...
Designing Behaviors for Information Agents (1997)
Keith Decker Anandeep, Keith Decker, Eep Pannu, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors. Our current focus...
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents (1997)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
Adaptation in open, multi-agent information gathering systems is important for several reasons. These reasons include the inability to accurately predict future problem-solving workloads, future...
How can an agent learn to negotiate (1997)
Negotiation has been extensively discussed in game-theoretic, economic, and management science literatures for decades. Recent growing interest in autonomous interacting software agents and their...
Designing behaviors for information agents (1997)
Keith Decker, Eep Pannu, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors. Our current focus...
Multi-agent coordination through coalition formation (1997)
Onn M. Shehory, Katia Sycara, Somesh Jha
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formation was addressed in...
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents (1997)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
Adaptation in open, multi-agent information gathering systems is important for several reasons. These reasons include the inability to accurately predict future problem-solving workloads, future...
Designing reusable behaviors for information agents (1996)
An important issue in multi-agent systems is the specification and effective implementation of various classes of computational agent behaviors. One such class of behaviors involves collecting and...
Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling: Preliminary Experimental Results (1996)
Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara
We view meeting scheduling as a distributed task where each agent knows its user's preferences and calendar availability in order to act on behalf of its user. Although we may have some...
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents (1996)
Keith S. Decker, Katia Sycara, Ibrahim Imam, Larry Kerschberg
. Adaptation in open, multi-agent information gathering systems is important for several reasons. These reasons include the inability to accurately predict future problem-solving workloads, future...
Designing Behaviors for Information Agents (1996)
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Eep Pannu, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors. Our current focus...
Distributed Intelligent Agents (1996)
Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Mike Williamson, Dajun Zeng
We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve, filter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as...
Executing Decision-theoretic Plans in Multi-agent Environments (Extended Abstract) (1996)
Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
) Mike Williamson and Keith Decker and Katia Sycara The Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (mikew,decker,sycara)@cs.cmu.edu April 15, 1996 1...
Learning Text Filtering Preferences (1996)
Anandeep Pannu, Eep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara
We describe a reusable agent that learns a model of the user's research interests for filtering conference announcements and request for proposals (RFPs) from the Web. For this task, there is a...
Bayesian Learning in Negotiation (1996)
Dajun Zeng Katia, Katia Sycara
Negotiation has been extensively discussed in game-theoretic, economic, and management science literatures for decades. Recent growing interest in autonomous interacting software agents and their...
Multi-Agent Integration of Information Gathering and Decision Support (1996)
. We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of information agents that coordinate to retrieve, filter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and...
Coordination Of Multiple Intelligent Software Agents (1996)
this paper we present the distributed system architecture, agent collaboration interactions, and a reusable set of software components for structuring agents. The system architecture has three types...
Modeling Information Agents: Advertisements, Organizational Roles, and Dynamic Behavior (1996)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
One of the most important uses of agent models is for problem-solving coordination. Coordination has been defined as managing the interdependencies between activities, or pragmatically as choosing,...
Modeling Ill-Structured Optimization Tasks through Cases (1996)
Kazuo Miyashita, Katia Sycara, Riichiro Mizoguchi
CABINS is a framework of modeling an optimization task in illstructured domains. In such domains, neither systems nor human experts possess the exact model for guiding optimization. And the...
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents (1996)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Mike Williamson
Adaptation in open, multi-agent information gathering systems is important for several reasons. These reasons include the inability to accurately predict future problem-solving workloads, future...
Matchmaking and Brokering (1996)
Keith Decker, Mike Williamson, Katia Sycara
In this paper we define the notions of agent matchmaking and brokering behaviors that are used while processing requests among initially unacquainted sets of agents. These behaviors are basic...
A Learning Personal Agent for Text Filtering and Notification (1996)
Anandeep Pannu, Anandeep S. Pannu, Katia Sycara, Katia Sycara
The WWW is increasingly being used for announcements of important events and solicitations such as conference announcements and requests for proposals. This information is accessed by users using...
Designing Reusable Behaviors for Information Agents (1996)
An important issue in multi-agent systems is the specification and effective implementation of various classes of computational agent behaviors. One such class of behaviors involves collecting and...
Unified Information and Control Flow in Hierarchical Task Networks (1996)
Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
Much recent planning research has focused on two related issues. First, there has been a strong interest in information-gathering (or "sensing", or "knowledgeproducing ") actions....
Bayesian Learning in Negotiation (1996)
This paper appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI 1996 Stanford Spring Symposium Series on Adaptation, Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems.
Designing a Multi-Agent Portfolio Management System (1996)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Dajun Zeng
The voluminous and readily available information on the Internet has given rise to exploration of Intelligent Agent technology for accessing, filtering, evaluating and integrating information. In...
Unified Information and Control Flow in Hierarchical Task Networks (1996)
Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
Much recent planning research has focused on two related issues. First, there has been a strong interest in information-gathering (or "sensing", or "knowledgeproducing ") actions....
Designing a Multi-Agent Portfolio Management System (1996)
Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, Dajun Zeng
The voluminous and readily available information on the Internet has given rise to exploration of Intelligent Agent technology for accessing, filtering, evaluating and integrating information. In...
Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling: Preliminary Experimental Results (1996)
Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara
We view meeting scheduling as a distributed task where each agent knows its user's preferences and calendar availability in order to act on behalf of its user. Although we may have some...
Matchmaking and Brokering (1996)
Keith Decker Mike, Mike Williamson, Katia Sycara
In this paper we define the notions of agent matchmaking and brokering behaviors that are used while processing requests among initially unacquainted sets of agents. These behaviors are basic...
Uni ed Information and Control Flow in Hierarchical Task Networks (1996)
Mike Williamson, Keith Decker, Katia Sycara
Much recent planning research has focused on two related issues. First, there has been a strong interest in information-gathering (or \sensing", or \knowledgeproducing") actions....
Distributed intelligent agents (1996)
Katia Sycara, Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Mike Williamson, Dajun Zeng
We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve, lter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as well...
Matchmaking and brokering (1996)
Keith Decker, Mike Williamson, Katia Sycara
In this paper we define the notions of agent matchmaking and brokering behaviors that are used while processing requests among initially unacquainted sets of agents. These behaviors are basic...
Designing reusable behaviors for information agents (1996)
An important issue in multi-agent systems is the specification and effective implementation of various classes of computational agent behaviors. One such class of behaviors involves collecting and...
Task-based Multi-agent Coordination for Information Gathering (1995)
this paper, we will focus on the architecture of our distributed system, and the interactions among its agents for task-based accessing of heterogeneous, distributed information sources. We will use...
Practical scheduling problems generally require allocation of resources in the presence of a large, diverse and typically conflicting set of constraints and optimization criteria. The...
Practical optimization problems such as job-shop scheduling often involve optimization criteria that change over time. Repair-based frameworks have been identified as flexible computational paradigms...
Improving System Performance in Case-Based Iterative Optimization through Knowledge Filtering (1995)
Adding knowledge to a knowledge-based system is not monotonically beneficial. We discuss and experimentally validate this observation in the context of CABINS, a system that learns control knowledge...
Using Case-Based Reasoning to Acquire User Scheduling Preferences that Change over Time (1995)
Katia Sycara, Dajun Zeng, Kazuo Miyashita
Production/Manufacturing scheduling typically involves the acquisition of user optimization preferences. The ill-structuredness of both the problem space and the desired objectives make practical...
Device Representation for Behavioral Synthesis of Mechatronic Devices (1995)
T. N. Madhusudan, Katia Sycara, D. Navin-chandra
. Open issues in the behavioral synthesis of electro-mechanical systems are: (1) developing convenient abstractions for physical principles,(2) dynamic variations of physical variables and (3)...
A Case-Based Reasoning Approach For Synthesis Of Electro-Mechanical Devices Using Bond Graphs (1995)
T.N. Madhusudan, Katia Sycara, D. Navin-Chandra
Developing a computational representation for electromechanical devices that supports conceptual synthesis of complex devices from simpler subsystems both in terms of device behavior and form has...
Task-based Multi-agent Coordination for Information Gathering (1995)
this paper, we will focus on the architecture of our distributed system, and the interactions among its agents for task-based accessing of heterogeneous, distributed information sources. We will use...
Backtracking Techniques for the Job Shop Scheduling Constraint Satisfaction Problem (1995)
Norman Sadeh, Katia Sycara, Yalin Xiong
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i.e. earliest/latest possible start time windows)....
Practical optimization problems such as job-shop scheduling often involve optimization criteria that change over time. Repair-based frameworks have been identified as flexible computational paradigms...
Cooperative Intelligent Software Agents (1995)
The availability of network-based information sources and services, along with the wide use of of World Wide Web, presents a great opportunity for enhanced problem solving support that incorporates...
Using case-based reasoning to acquire user scheduling preferences that change over time (1995)
Katia Sycara, Dajun Zeng, Kazuo Miyashita
Production/Manufacturing scheduling typically involves the acquisition of user optimization preferences. The ill-structuredness of both the problem space and the desired objectives make practical...
yThis research was partially supported by the Defense Advance Research
A Case-based Reasoning approach for Synthesis of Electromechanical Devices using Bond Graphs (1995)
T. N. Madhusudan, Katia Sycara
Developing a computational representation for electromechanical devices that supports conceptual synthesis of complex devices from simpler subsystems both in terms of device behavior and form has...
Distributed Problem Solving through Coordination in a Society of Agents (1994)
We present a methodology, called Constraint Partition and Coordinated Reaction (CP&CR), where a problem solution emerges from the evolving computational process of a group of diverse,...
Visitor-Hoster: Towards An Intelligent Electronic Secretary (1994)
: Visitor-Hoster 1 1 Introduction The ubiquity of network-based information resources have given impetus for the development of intelligent software agents that will be able to (1) extract...
Distributed problem solving through coordination in a society of agents (1994)
We present a methodology, called ConstraintPartition and Coordinated Reaction (CP&CR), where a problem solution emerges from the evolving computational process of a group of diverse, interacting,...
This paper was submitted to Arti cial Intelligence Journal
Emergent constraint satisfaction through multi-agent coordinated interaction (1993)
Abstract. We present a methodology, called Constraint Partition and
Enterprise Management Network Architecture (1992)
Michel Roboam, Mark S. Fox, Katia Sycara
Michel Roboam is currently visiting scientist in the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems and is sponsored by the AEROSPATIALE Company (France).
Intelligent Backtracking Techniques for Job Shop Scheduling (1992)
Yalin Xiong, Norman Sadeh, Katia Sycara
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i.e. earliest/latest possible start time windows)....
4. Dynnmic Consistency Enforcement (DCE) (1992)
Norman Sadeh, Katia Sycara, Yaiin Xiong
mntract #F30602-88-CMX)l, and in part by grants from MCDOMell Aircraft Company and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Intelligent backtracking techniques for job shop scheduling (1992)
Yalin Xiong, Norman Sadeh, Katia Sycara
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i.e. earliest/latest possible start time windows)....
Intelligent backtracking techniques for job shop scheduling (1992)
Norman Sadeh, Katia Sycara, Yalin Xiong
This paper, which will appear in a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence journal on
2.2 Decentralized Systems toplevel description (1990)
Michel Roboam, Mark S. Fox, Katia Sycara
Michel Roboam is currently visiting scientist in the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems and is sponsored by the AEROSPATW Company (France).
Sharing inventory risk in supply chain: The implication of financial constraint
Lai, Guoming, Debo, Laurens G., Sycara, Katia
A supply chain may operate under either preorder mode, consignment mode or the combination of these two modes. Under preorder, the retailer procures before the sale and takes full inventory risk...
A Planning Component for RETSINA Agents
Massimo Paolucci, Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Dirk Kalp, Anandeep Pannu
. In the RETSINA multi-agent system, each agent is provided with an internal planning component---HITaP. Each agent, using its internal planner, formulates detailed plans and executes them to achieve...
Emergent Constraint Satisfaction through Multi-Agent Coordinated Interaction
. We present a methodology, called Constraint Partition and Coordinated Reaction (CP&CR), for distributed constraint satisfaction based on partitioning the set of constraints into subsets of...
Coordinating Very Large Groups Of Wide Area Search Munitions
Paul Scerri, Elizabeth Liao, Justin Lai, Katia Sycara, Yang Xu, Mike Lewis
Coordinating hundreds or thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), presents a variety of new exciting challenges, over and above the challenges of building single UAVs and small teams of UAVs. We...