Publications, White Papers, and Preprints

2008 (back)

Understanding Collective Cognitive Convergence (with Belding, Hilscher, and Brueckner)

Polyagents: Simulation for Supporting Agents’ Decision Making (with Brueckner)

Modeling and Managing Collective Cognitive Convergence (with Belding, Brueckner, and Hilscher)

Distributed Pheromone-Based Swarming Control of Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles for RSTA (Sauter, Matthews, Yinger, Robinson, Moody, and Riddle)

2007 (back)

Comparing Agent Trajectories (with Brophy and Brueckner)

Modeling Collective Cognitive Convergence (with Belding, Hilscher, and Brueckner)

Heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicle Collaborative Control Demonstration (Sauter, Matthews, Yinger, Robinson, Moody)

Self-Organizing Information Matching in InformANTS (with Hilscher, Brueckner, and Belding)

Monitoring and Managing Intelligence in Distributed Systems

Emergent Behavior in Modeling (with Belding, Brueckner, and Sauter)

MAS Combat Simulation

E Pluribus Unum: Polyagent and Delegate MAS Architectures (with Brueckner, Weyns, Holvoet, Verstraete, and Valckenaers)

Prediction Horizons in Polyagent Models (with Belding and Brueckner)

Real-Time Agent Characterization and Prediction (with Brueckner, Matthews, Sauter, Brophy)

2006 (back)

Predictive Analysis for C4ISR (with Crossman, Hamilton, McEneaney, Milks, Sloan, and Stilman)

Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents (with Nielsen, Brueckner, and Alonso)

Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering (with Rohwer, Belding, Brueckner)

Swarming Methods for Geospatial Reasoning (with Brueckner, Matthews, Sauter)

Evolving Agents to Recognize Plans and Emotions (with Brueckner, Matthews, Sauter, Brophy)

Modeling Uncertain Domains with Polyagents (with Brueckner).

{Parunak, 2006 #2103} (with Brueckner).

Real-Time Evolutionary Agent Characterization and Prediction (with Brueckner, Matthews, Sauter, Brophy).

A Model of Emotions for Situated Agents (with Bisson, Brueckner, Matthews, Sauter).

2005 (back)

Sift and Sort: Climbing the Semantic Pyramid (with Weinstein, Chiusano, Brueckner).

A Survey of Environments and Mechanisms for Human-Human Stigmergy

Research Directions for Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems (with Huhns et al.).

Swarming Methods for Geospatial Reasoning (with Brueckner, Matthews, and Sauter). GeoComputation 2005

Evolving Swarming Agents in Real Time. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) 2005

Representing Dispositions and Emotions in Simulated Combat (with Bisson, Brueckner, Matthews,and Sauter). Workshop on Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS05 (forthcoming)

Pheromone Learning for Self-Organizing Agents (with Brueckner, Matthews, and Sauter)(1/2005). IEEE SMC May 2005.

Global Convergence of Local Agent Behaviors (with Brueckner, Sauter, and Matthews) (12/2004). The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, Netherlands, 305-312.

Performance of Digital Pheromones for Swarming Vehicle Control (with Sauter, Matthews, and Brueckner). Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, Netherlands (accepted).

2004 (back)

Challenging Old Assumptions in Global Information Management. Sixth ONR/CADRC Decision Support Workshop, Quantico, VA, Sept 8-9, 2004.

Multiagent Systems, State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges (with Weyns, Michel, Holvoet, and Ferber). Proceedings of Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems (E4MAS 2004), Springer, 2004.

Agents Swarming in Semantic Spaces to Corroborate Hypotheses (with Weinstein, Chiusano, and Brueckner). Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04), Columbia University, NY, 1488-1489.

Hypothesis Corroboration in Semantic Spaces with Swarming Agents (with Weinstein, Chiusano, and Brueckner). Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 4th International Workshop (ANTS2004). Brussels, Belgium, September 2004.

Stigmergic Learning for Self-Organizing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET's) (with Brueckner). Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04), Columbia University, NY, 1324-1325.

Analyzing Stigmergic Learning for Self-Organizing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET's) (with Brueckner). Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Agent Systems (ESOA04), Columbia University, NY.

Swarming Distributed Pattern Detection and Classification (with Brueckner). Postproceedings of the Workshop on Environments for Multi-agent Systems (E4MAS 2004), Springer, LNAI 3374.

Digital Pheromones for Coordination of Unmanned Vehicles (with Brueckner and Sauter). Postproceedings of the Workshop on Environments for Multi-agent Systems (E4MAS 2004), Springer, LNAI 3374.

Universality in Multi-Agent Systems (with Brueckner and Savit). Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04), Columbia University, NY, 930-937.

Swarming Pattern Detection in Sensor and Robot Networks (with Brueckner and Odell). 2004 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems.

Engineering Swarming Systems (with Brueckner). F. Bergenti, M.-P. Gleizes, and F. Zambonelli, eds., Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems. Kluwer, 2004, 341-376.

2003 (back)

Resource-Aware Exploration of the Emergent Dynamics of Simulated Systems (with Brueckner). AAMAS03

Information-Driven Phase Changes in Multi-Agent Coordination (with Brueckner). AAMAS03

How to Calm Hyperactive Agents (with Brueckner, Matthews, and Sauter). AAMAS03

Swarming Coordination of Multiple UAV's for Collaborative Sensing (with Brueckner and Odell). Second 2ND AIAA Unmanned Unlimited Systems Technologies and Operations Aerospace Land and Sea Conference and Workshop & Exhibit, San Diego, CA, 15-18 Sept 2003

Dynamic Imputation of Agent Cognition (with Brueckner). Forthcoming in Proceedings of Autonomy 2003.

Imputing Agent Cognition from Dynamics (with Brueckner). 2003 Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control at AAMAS'03

Self-Organizing MANET Management (with Brueckner). Forthcoming in Serugendo, Karageorgos, Rana, and Zambonelli, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, AAMAS2003.

Making Swarming Happen In Proceedings of Swarming and Network-Enabled C4ISR, Tysons Corner, VA, ASD C3I.

Temporal Aspects of Dynamic Role Assignment (with Odell, Brueckner, Sauter). The 2003 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE2003)

Computerized system for market-based constraint optimization (with Sauter and Ward). US Patent 6,536,935.

Hybrid Stigmergic Mechanisms for Information Extraction (with Weinstein, Brueckner, Sauter). Conference on the Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects, Georgia Tech, Dec. 2003.

2002 (back)

Synthetic Pheromone Mechanisms for Coordination of Unmanned Vehicles (with Brueckner and Sauter). Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002)

Effort Profiles in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation (with Brueckner, Sauter, and Savit). AAMAS 2002

Evolving Adaptive Pheromone Path Planning Mechanisms (with Sauter, Matthews, and Brueckner). Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002)

From Design to Intention: Signs of a Revolution (with Zambonelli). AAMAS 2002.

Digital Pheromones for Autonomous Coordination of Swarming UAV's (with Purcell and O'Connell). AIAA's First Technical Conference and Workshop on Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles, Systems, and Operations.

Swarming Agents for Distributed Pattern Detection and Classification (with Brueckner). Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing, AAMAS 2002

Signs of a Revolution in Computer Science and Software Engineering (with Zambonelli). ESAW02.

Co-X: Defining what Agents Do Together (with Brueckner, Fleischer, and Odell). Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation, AAMAS 2002.

Modeling Agents and their Environment (with Odell, Fleischer, and Brueckner). AOSE02.

2001 (back)

Experiments in Indirect Negotiation (with Savit, Brueckner, and Sauter). AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems.

Representing Social Structures in UML (with Odell). An extended abstract of this paper appeared as a poster at Autonomous Agents 2001, and the full version was presented at the Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.

Tuning Synthetic Pheromones With Evolutionary Computing (with Sauter and Brueckner). Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems (ECOMAS2001, at GECCO 2001)

ERIM's Approach to Fine-Grained Agents (with Brueckner and Sauter). Proceedings of the NASA/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC'2001), Greenbelt, MD, 19-21 September 2001.

Entropy and Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems (with Brueckner). Proceedings of Autonomous Agents'01.

Mechanisms and Military Applications for Synthetic Pheromones (with Brueckner, Sauter, and Posdamer). Workshop on Autonomy-Oriented Computation 2001 (at Agents 2001).

2000 (back)

Distinguishing Control and Plant Dynamics in Enterprise Modeling (with Brueckner, Sauter, and Matthews). Proceedings of Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control.

Multiple Pheromones for Improved Guidance (with Brueckner). Proceedings of Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control.

Ant-Like Missionaries and Cannibals: Synthetic Pheromones for Distributed Motion Control (with Brueckner). Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000.

Agents in Overalls: Experiences and Issues in the Development and Deployment of Industrial Agent-Based Systems. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems9:3 (2000) 209-227.

A Practitioners' Review of Industrial Agent Applications. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 3:4 (2000), pp. 389-407.

Distinguishing Environmental and Agent Dynamics: A Case Study in Abstraction and Alternate Modeling Technologies (with Brueckner, Sauter, and Matthews). ESAW Workshop at ECAI'00.

The Process-Interface-Topology Model: Overlooked Issues in Modeling Social Systems. MASHO Workshop at ECAI'00.

1999 (back)

ANTS in the Supply Chain (5/99) (with Sauter). Workshop on Agent based Decision Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply Chain, Agents 99, Seattle, WA, 1 May 1999.

Characterizing Multi-Agent Negotiation. A summary of a working group at IWMAS'98. (Paper released in 1999.)

The RAPPID Project: Symbiosis between Industrial Requirements and MAS Research (with Ward, Fleischer, and Sauter). Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2:2 (June 1999), 111-140.

Density-Based Emergent Scheduling System (9/99) (with Clark). US Patent 5,953,229.

DASCh: Dynamic Analysis of Supply Chains.

Representing Agent Interaction Protocols in UML (with Odell and Bauer). Proceedings of First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.

From Chaos to Commerce: Practical Issues and Research Opportunities in the Nonlinear Dynamics of Decentralized Manufacturing Systems. A keynote presentation at IMS'99.

1998 (back)

The MarCon Algorithm: A Systematic Market Approach to Distributed Constraint Problems (with Ward and Sauter). AI-EDAM 13 (1999), 217-234. A summary appears in the Proceedings of ICMAS'98.

Practical and Industrial Applications of Agent-Based Systems.

What can Agents do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at CEC. Published in Klusch and Weiss, eds., Cooperative Information Agents II, LNCS 1435 (1998), pp. 1-18.

The AARIA Agent Architecture: From Manufacturing Requirements to Agent-Based System Design. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 8(1) (2001), 45-58, 2001. The original version of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Agent-Based Manufacturing, ICAA’98, Minneapolis, MN, 10 May 1998.

The DASCh Experience: How to Model a Supply Chain. ICCS'98.

Modeling The Extended Supply Network (with VanderBok). ISA-Tech'98 (Houston).

Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users’ Guide (with Savit and Riolo). Proceedings of Multi-agent systems and Agent-based Simulation (MABS'98), pages 10-25, Springer, LNAI 1534.

Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users’ Guide (with Savit and Riolo). MABS'98 (Paris). Forthcoming in LNCS.

1997 (back)

Technologies for Virtual Enterprises (1/97)

Managing Emergent Behavior in Distributed Control Systems (with Ray VanderBok). ISA-Tech '97 (Anaheim).

Modeling the Extended Supply Network (with VanderBok). ISA-Tech '98 (Houston, TX).

Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems (with Sauter and Clark). ATAL'97.

"Go to the Ant": Engineering Principles from Natural Agent Systems. Annals of Operations Research 75 (1997) 69-101.

Manufacturing over the Internet and into Your Living Room (with Baker and Erol).

Distributed Component-Centered Design as Agent-Based Distributed Constraint Optimization (with Ward, Fleischer, Sauter, and Chang). AAAI'97 Workshop on Constraints and Agents.

A Marketplace of Design Agents for Distributed Concurrent Set-Based Design (with Ward, Fleischer, and Sauter). Concurrent Engineering '97.

1996 (back)

Visualizing Agent Conversations: Using Enhanced Dooley Graphs for Agent Design and Analysis. Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems.

An Introduction to Speech Acts and Dooley Graphs.

The Heartbeat of the Factory:Understanding the Dynamics of Agile Manufacturing Enterprises.

Workshop Report: Implementing Manufacturing Agents.

Applications of Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Industry. Chapter 4 in O'Hare and Jennings, eds., Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Inter-Science, 1996.