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2008

G. Sukthankar, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, and C. Burnett, "A Model of Human Teamwork for Agent-Assisted Search Operations," NATO Research and Technology Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium (NATO HFM-142/RTO Symposium), NATO RTA / HFM, B.P. 25, 7 Rue Ancelle, F-92201 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, France, April 2008.

R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Semantic Web Services Monitoring: An OWL-S based Approach," in Proceedings of 41st HICSS conference, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2008.

2007

R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Specifying and Monitoring Composite Events for Semantic Web Services," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services. IEEE Computer Society, November 26-28, 2007.

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Efficient Plan Recognition for Dynamic Multi-agent Teams," in Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference, October 2007.

P. Velagapudi, O. Prokopyev, K. Sycara, and P. Scerri, "Maintaining Shared Belief in a Large Multiagent Team," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

P. Scerri, S. Owens, B. Yu, and K. Sycara, "A Decentralized Approach to Space Deconfliction," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

R. Glinton, P. Scerri, D. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "An Analysis and Design Methodology for Belief Sharing in Large Groups," in Proceedings of FUSION 2007.

P. Scerri, R. Glinton, S. Owens, D. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "Geolocation of RF Emitters by Many UAVs," in AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2007 Conference and Exhibit, 2007.

P. Scerri, S. Owens, R. Glinton, S. Okamoto, and K. Sycara, "Locating RF Emitters with Large UAV Teams," in Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization. A shorter version of this paper appears as a poster at AAMAS'07.

P. Scerri, S. Owens, R. Glinton, and K. Sycara, "Synergistic Integration of Agent Technologies for Military Simulation," in KIMAS'07.

A. Farinelli, D. Nardi, P. Scerri, and A. Ingenito, "Dealing with Perception Errors in Multi-Robot System Coordination," Poster at IJCAI'07, 2007.

G. Sukthankar, K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, C. Burnett, and A. Preece, "Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science, September 2007.

R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Towards automatic mediation of OWL-S process models," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pages 1032-1039. IEEE Computer Society, July 9-13, 2007.

R. Vaculín, K. Sycara, "Monitoring execution of OWL-S web services," in Proceedings of OWL-S: Experiences and Directions Workshop, European Semantic Web Conference, June 3-7, 2007.

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Policy Recognition for Multi-Player Tactical Scenarios," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

C. Li, B. Yu, and K. Sycara, "An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

A. Chechetka and K. Sycara, "Subjective Approximate Solutions for Decentralized POMDPs," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

G. Lai, K. Sycara, and C. Li, "A Pareto Optimal Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.

2006

K. Sycara and G. Sukthankar, "Literature Review of Teamwork Models," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-06-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2006.

G. Lai, C. Li, and K. Sycara, "Efficient multi-attribute negotiation with incomplete information," in Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 15 (5), 511-528, Conference and workshop, September 2006.

S. Okamoto, P. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "Toward an Understanding of the Impact of Personal Assistants in Human Organizations," in Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 06), Hakodate, Japan, May 9-12, 2006. (Winner of Best Student Paper Award).

B. Yu, P. Scerri, K. Sycara, Y. Xu, and M. Lewis, "Scalable and Reliable Data Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2006.

Y. Seo and K. Sycara, "On the Beaten Path: Exploitation of Entities Interactions For Predicting Potential Link," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-06-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2006.

K. Sycara, P. Scerri, and A. Chechetka, "Evolutionary Games and Social Networks in Adversary Reasoning," International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2006), Boston, MA, August 2006.

B. Yu and K. Sycara, "Geographic Routing in Distributed Sensor Systems without Location Information," International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 06), Florence, Italy, July 9-13, 2006.

R. Glinton, J. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "A Markov Random Field Model of Context for High Level Information Fusion," International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 06), Florence, Italy, July 9-13, 2006.

B. Yu and K. Sycara, "Learning the Quality of Sensor Data in Distributed Decision Fusion", International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 06), Florence, Italy, July 9-13, 2006.
G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition from Spatio-temporal Agent Traces," in Proceedings of Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), July 2006.

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Robust Recognition of Physical Team Behaviors using Spatio-temporal Models," in Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2006.
Y. Seo and K. Sycara, "Cost-Sensitive Access Control for Illegitimate Confidential Access by Insiders ," in IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006), Springer, May 2006, pp. 117-128. Honorable Mention (second prize) for Best Paper at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
M. Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, and K. Sycara, "Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue Robotics," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2006, May 2006, pp. 3977-3982.
M. Koes, K. Sycara, and I. Nourbakhsh, "A Constraint Optimization Framework for Fractured Robot Teams," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2006.
C. Li, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents, Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2006.

G. Lai, K.Sycara, L. Debo, and C. Li, "An analysis on price matching policy," (ICEC 2006)

2005

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M. Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, and K. Sycara, "Heterogeneous Multirobot Coordination with Spatial and Temporal Constraints," in Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI Press, June 2005, pp. 1292-1297.

J. A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, S. R. Owens, R. Glinton, Y. Seo, B. Yu, C. E. Grindle, Y. Xu, and M. Lewis, "An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed", in Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, New York, NY, July 2005.

R. Glinton, S. R. Owens, J. A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, M. Lewis, and C. E. Grindle, "Intent Inference Using a Potential Field Model of Environmental Influences", in Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, New York, NY, July 2005.

P. Scerri, A. Farinelli, S. Okamoto, and M. Tambe, "Allocating Tasks in Extreme Teams", in AAMAS'05, 2005.

N. Schurr, J. Marecki, M. Tambe, and P. Scerri, "Towards Flexible Coordination of Human-Agent Teams", in Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems, 2005.

N. Schurr, J. Marecki, P. Scerri, J.P. Lewis, and M. Tambe, "The DEFACTO System: Training Tool for Incident Commanders", in Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2005.

K. Sycara, P. Scerri, J. Giampapa, S. Srinivas, and M. Lewis, "Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2005.

Y. Xu, E. Liao, P. Scerri, B. Yu, K. Sycara, and M. Lewis, "Towards Flexible Coordination of Large Scale Multi-Agent Teams", in Challenges of Large Scale Coordination, Springer, 2005.

P. Scerri, R. Vincent, and R. Mailler, "Comparing Three Approaches to Large-Scale Coordination", in Challenges of Large Scale Coordination, Springer, 2005.

P. Scerri, K. Sycara and M. Tambe, "Safety in the Context of the Coordination Via Adjustable Autonomy", in Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems, to appear.

P. Scerri, Y. Xu, J. Polvichai, B. Yu, S. Okamoto, M. Lewis and K. Sycara, "Challenges in Building Very Large Teams", in Cooperative Control, forthcoming.

M. Lewis, J. Polvichai, K. Sycara, and P. Scerri, "Scaling-up Human Control for Large UAV Teams", in N. Cooke (Ed.), The Human Factors of Remotely Piloted Vehicles, New York: Elsevier, to appear.

J. Marecki, N. Schurr, M. Tambe, and P. Scerri, "Dangers in Multiagent Rescue Using DEFACTO", in AAMAS Workshop on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems, 2005.
Y. Xu, P. Scerri, B. Yu, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara, "A POMDP Approach to Token-based Team Coordination", in AAMAS.05 Workshop on Challenges of Large Scale Coordination, 2005.

A. Farinelli and P. Scerri, "Low-Overhead Cooperative Detection of False Sensor Readings", in AAMAS.05 Workshop on Challenges of Large Scale Coordination, 2005.

P. Scerri, M. Lewis, and J. Polvichai, "Control of UAV Teams", poster presentation at: CERI Human Factors of UAVs Workshop, 2005.

N. Schurr, J. Marecki, M. Tambe, P. Scerri, N. Kasinadhuni, and J. Lewis, "The Future of Disaster Response: Humans Working with Multiagent Teams using DEFACTO", in AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, 2005.

T. Kawamura, T. Kasegawa, A. Ohsuga, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, “Web Services Lookup: A Matchmaker Experiment”, in IEEE IT Professional, Vol 7., No. 2., March/April 2005.

I. Nourbakhsh, M. Lewis, K. Sycara, M. Koes, M. Young, and S. Burlon, “Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue”, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol 4, No. 1, January-March 2005, pp 72-78.

M. Paolucci, J. Soudry, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara, “A Broker for OWL-S Web Services”, in Cavedon, Maamar, Martin, Benatallah, (eds) Extending Web Services Technologies: the use of Multi-Agent Approaches, Kluwer, 2005.

Y. Nevmyvaka, K. Sycara, and D. Seppi, “Electronic Market Making: Initial Investigation”, in Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Finance, World Scientific, 2005.

A. Ankolekar, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, “Towards the Formal Verification of the OWL-S Process Models”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-05), Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005.

Y. W. Seo and K. Sycara, “Exploiting Multi-Agent Interactions for Identifying the Best-Payoff Information Source”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Agents Technologies (IAT-2005), Campiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005.

I. Nourbakhsh, M. Koes, and K. Sycara, "Heterogeneous Multirobot Coordination with Spatial and Temporal Constraints”, in Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005.

Y. Xu, P. Scerri, B. Yu, S. Okamoto, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara, “An Integrated Token-based Algorithm for Scalable Coordination”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 25-29, 2005 (finalist for best paper award).

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, “A Cost Minimization Approach to Human Behavior Recognition”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-29, 2005 (Winner of Best Student Paper Award).

A. Chechetka and K. Sycara, “A Decentralized Variable Ordering Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 05), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-29, 2005.

Y. Nevmyvaka, M. Kearns, A. Papandreou, and K. Sycara, "Electronic Trading in Order-Driven Markets: Efficient Execution", in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce, Munich, Germany, July 19-22, 2005.

Y. Nevmyvaka and K. Sycara, "Market Microstructure: Time Series Analysis", in Proceedings of Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, Salt Lake City, UT, July 21-26, 2005.

Y. Nevmyvaka, M. Kearns, A. Papandreou, and K. Sycara, "Optimized Execution via Order Book Simulation", in Proceedings of 2005 Annual Meetings of The Western Finance Association, Portland, Oregon, June 18-21, 2005.

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, “Identifying Physical Team Behaviors from Spatial Relationships”, in Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Universal City, CA., May 16-19, 2005. (one of five papers to win the Recommended Reading List award).

C. Li and K. Sycara, “Dynamic Outside Options in Alternating Offers Negotiations”, in Proceedings of the 38th HICSS conference, Hawaii, Jan 6-9, 2005 (nominated for Best Paper Award).

G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Automatic Recognition of Human Team Behaviors," Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in Modeling Others from Observations (MOO 2005), Workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.

P. Scerri, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "Techniques and Directions for Building Very Large Agent Teams," in International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS '05), 2005. Invited Paper.

N. Schurr, J. Marecki, M. Tambe, P. Scerri, N. Kasinadhuni, and J. Lewis, "The Future of Disaster Response: Humans Working with Multiagent Teams using DEFACTO," In AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, 2005.

2004

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John Austin Talanda Fath; Advisor, Katia Sycara; Reader, Joseph Giampapa; "Agent Based Resolution of Remote Network Access Issues Using Semantic Domain Knowledge," A Thesis Submitted to the Information Networking Institute in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Information Networking, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2004.

C. Grindle, M. Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; R. Glinton, J. A. Giampapa, S. R. Owens and K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, "UniversityAutomating Terrain Analysis: Algorithms for Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield," in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 48th Annual Meeting, 2004.
P. Scerri, A. Farinelli, S. Okamoto, and M. Tambe, "Token Approach for Role Allocation in Extreme Teams: analysis and experimental evaluation," in Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems, 2004.
P. Scerri, Y. Xu, E. Liao, J. Lai, and K. Sycara, "Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams," in AAMAS'04, 2004.
E. Liao, P. Scerri, and K. Sycara, "A Framework for Very Large Teams," in AAMAS'04 Workshop on Coalitions and Teams, 2004.
Y. Xu, M. Lewis, K. Sycara, and P. Scerri, "Information Sharing in Large Scale Teams," in AAMAS'04 Workshop on Challenges in Coordination of Large Scale MultiAgent Systems, 2004.
P. Scerri, E. Liao, Y. Xu, M. Lewis, G. Lai, and K Sycara, "Coordinating very large groups of wide area search munitions," in Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific Publishing.
G. Sukthankar, M. Mandel, K. Sycara, and J.K. Hodgins, "Modeling Physical Variability for Synthetic MOUT Agents," Proceedings of 2004 Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, May, 2004.
M. Berna-Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, and K. Sycara, "Communication Efficiency in Multi-agent Systems," in Proceedings of ICRA 2004. New Orleans, LA. April 26-May 1, 2004.
C. Li, B. Yu, and K. Sycara, "An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Peer-to-Peer Discovery, in Second Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2004, Boston.
C. Li, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "A Decision Model for Bilateral Contract Negotiations with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options", in the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC), San Diego, California, USA, 6 July, 2004.
P. Scerri, Y. Xu, E. Liao, J. Lai, and K. Sycara, "Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams," in AAMAS'04, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York, USA.
J. A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, A. Fath, A. Steinfeld, and D. Siewiorek, "A Multi-Agent System for Automatically Resolving Network Interoperability Problems," in AAMAS'04, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York, USA.
B. Yu, C. Li, M. P. Singh, and K. Sycara, "A Dynamic Pricing Mechanism for P2P Referral Systems," in AAMAS'04, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York, USA.
G. Sukthankar, M. Mandel, K. Sycara, and J. Hodgins, "Modeling Physical Capabilities of Humanoid Agents Using Motion Capture Data," in AAMAS'04, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York, USA.
L. Kagal, G. Denker, T. Finin, M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan and K. Sycara, "An Approach to Confidentiality and Integrity for OWL-S", in Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium.
M. Paolucci, J. Soudry, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara, "Untangling the Broker Paradox in OWL-S", in Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium.
N. Srinivasan, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Adding OWL-S to UDDI, implementation and throughput," in First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition **(SWSWPC 2004) 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
D. Martin, M. Paolucci, S. McIlraith, M. Burstein, D. McDermott, D. McGuinness, B. Parsia, T. R. Payne, M. Sabou, M. Solanki, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara (SRI, CMU, Univ. Toronto) "Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach." First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004) 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
Y. W. Seo, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, A Multi-Agent System for Enforcing 'Need-To-Know' Security Policies, in Sixth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2004), July 2004.
J. A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, S. R. Owens, R. Glinton, Y. W. Seo, B. Yu, C. E. Grindle, and M. Lewis, "Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed," SIMULATION: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, December 2004.
K. Sycara, and M. Lewis, "Integrating intelligent agents into human teams," in E. Salas and S. Fiore (Eds.) Team Cognition: Understanding the Factors that Drive Process and Performance, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2004.
B. Yu, K. Sycara, J. A. Giampapa, and S. R. Owens, "Uncertain Information Fusion for Force Aggregation and Classification in Airborne Sensor Networks", in AAAI-04 Workshop on Sensor Networks, 26 July 2004.
P. Scerri, E. Liao, Y. Xu, M. Lewis, G. Lai, G. and K. Sycara, "Coordinating Very Large Groups of Wide Area Search Munitions," in Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific Publishing, 2004.
R. Glinton, J. A. Giampapa, S. R. Owens, K. Sycara, C. Grindle, and M. Lewis, "Integrating Context Form Information Fusion: Automating intelligence preparation of the battlefield," in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation Technology, Daytona Beach, FL, March 22-25.
R. Glinton, C. Grindle, J. Giampapa, M. Lewis, S. R. Owens and K. Sycara, "Terrain based information fusion and inference," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, Stockholm, Sweden, July 28-July 1.
C. Li and K. Sycara, "A Stable and Efficient Scheme for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation," in Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific, 2004.
K. Sycara and M. Paolucci, "Ontologies in Agent Architectures," in Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, 2004.
M. Rectenwald, Y. Seo, K. Lee, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "Installation, Running and Editing Instructions for the ClassificationBox Text Classification Tool," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-04-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2004.
M. Rectenwald, K. Lee, Y. Seo, J.A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "Proof of Concept System for Automatically Determining `Need-to-Know' Access Privileges: Installation Notes and User Guide," Tech report CMU-RI-TR-04-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2004.

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K. Sycara and M. Lewis, "Integrating Agents into Human Teams," in Salas E. (ed.), Team Cognition, Erlbaum Publishers, 2003.
K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, A. Ankolekar and N. Srinivasan, "Automated Discovery, Interaction and Composition of Semantic Web services," in Journal of Web Semantics, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2003, pp. 27-46.
C. Li, S. Chawla, U. Rajan, and K. Sycara, "Mechanisms for Coalition Formation and Cost Sharing in an Electronic Marketplace," in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Pittsburgh, October 2003.
K. Sycara, J. A. Giampapa, B.K. Langley, and M. Paolucci, "The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study," in Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena, Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omici, Jaelson Castro, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. LNCS 2603, July 2003, pp. 232--250.
G. Denker, L. Kagal, T. Finin, M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara, "Security For DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking," in Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), Sandial Island, Fl, USA, October 2003, pp 335-350.
M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, K. Sycara, and T. Nishimura, "Toward a Semantic Choreography of Web Services: From WSDL to DAML-S," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003, pp 22-26.
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M. Paolucci, A. Ankolekar, N. Srinivasan and K. Sycara, "The DAML-S Virtual Machine," in Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2003, Sandial Island, Fl, USA, October 2003, pp 290-305.
A. Ankolekar, J. D. Herbsleb, and K. Sycara, "Addressing Challenges to Open Source Collaboration With the Semantic Web," in Proceedings of Taking Stock of the Bazaar: The 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2003, Portland OR, USA, May 3-10 2003, pp 9-13.
A. Ankolekar, Y. W. Seo, and K. Sycara, "Investigating Semantic Knowledge for Text Learning," in ACM SIGIR-2003 Workshop on Semantic Web, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003.
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T. Kawamura, J. A. De Blasio, T. Hasegawa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "A Preliminary Report of a Public Experiment of a Semantic Service Matchmaker combined with a UDDI Business Registry," in 1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003), Trento, Italy, December 2003.
M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Autonomous Semantic Web Services," in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, #5, September/October 2003, pp 34-41.

A. Steinfeld, R. Sanghi, J. A. Giampapa, D. Siewiorek, and K. Sycara, "An Examination of Remote Access Help Desk Cases, School of Computer Science," Technical Report CMU-CS-03-190 [*cross listed as "Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report", CMU-CS-03-190 (cross-listed as CMU-HCII-03-100) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA USA.
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M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, K. Sycara, and T. Nishimura, "Towards a Semantic Web Ecommerce," in Proceedings of 6th Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS2003), Colorado Springs, Co, USA, June 2003, pp 153-161 .
M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, T. Nishimura, and N. Srinivasan, "Using DAML-S for P2P Discovery," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003, pp 203- 207 .
M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, and T. Kawamura, "Delivering Semantic Web Services," in Proceedings of the Twelves World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 2003, pp 111- 118 .
R. Singh, K. Sycara, T. R. Payne, "Distributed AI, Schedules and the Semantic Web," in the XML Journal, Vol. 03, Number 11.
K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, M. van Velsen, and J. A. Giampapa, The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure, in the special joint issue of Autonomous Agents and MAS, Volume 7, Nos. 1 and 2, July 2003.

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M. Rectenwald, R. Singh, J. A. Giampapa, S.L. Esch, K. Sycara, and B. John, User Guide for MORSEStation Range Operations Simulation, Tech report CMU-RI-TR-03-37, Robotics Institute/Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2003.
M. Rectenwald, R. Singh, J. A. Giampapa, S.L. Esch, K. Sycara, and B. John, User Guide for MORSE Command Simulation Setup and Running Instructions, Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-03-40, Robotics Institute/Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2003.
C. Li, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "A Review of Research Literature on Bilateral Negotiations," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-03-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2003.
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W. Yang, K. Sycara, and J. A. Giampapa, "Decentralized Matching Schemes for the Navy Detailing Process," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-03-51, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2003.

R. Singh, "RCal: An Autonomous Agent for Intelligent Distributed Meeting Scheduling," Master's Thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2003.
Y. Nevmyvaka, K. Sycara, and D.J. Seppi, "Electronic Market Making: Initial Investigation," in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF 2003).

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J. A. Giampapa and K. Sycara, "Team-Oriented Agent Coordination in the RETSINA Multi-Agent System," Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-02-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2002. Presented at AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation.
J. Thomas, and K. Sycara, "Genetic Programming and the Predictive Power of Internet Message Traffic," in Chen, S.H. (ed.) Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
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P. Huang, A. Scheller-Wolf, and K. Sycara, "Design of a Multi-unit Double Auction E-market," in Computational Intelligence, Vol.18, No.4, 2002. (Special issue on agent technology for electronic commerce).
P. Huang, A. Scheller-Wolf, and K. Sycara, "A Strategy-proof Multi-unit Double Auction Mechanism," in The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-02). Bologna, Italy. 2002.
M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Evolutionary Search, Stochastic Policies with Memory, and Reinforcement Learning with Hidden State," in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 2002.
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M. Paolucci, T. Kawamura, T. R. Payne, and K. Sycara, "Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI," in Proceedings of Web Services, E-business and Semantic Web Workshop, 2002.

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A. Ankolekar, F. Huch, and K. Sycara, "Concurrent Semantics for the Web Services Specification Language DAML-S," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, York, UK, April 8-11, 2002.
T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Calendar Agents on the Semantic Web," in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 17(3), pp. 84-86, May/June 2002. Copyright 2002, IEEE Computer Society. Also appears in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 3(5), 2002.
T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents," in The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.
T. R. Payne, M. Paolucci, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents." in The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.
A. Ankolekar, F. Huch, and K. Sycara, "Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with Subtypes," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
The DAML Services Coalition: A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. R. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D. L. Martin, D. McDermott, S. A. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. R. Payne and K. Sycara. "DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web." In The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
M., Takahiro Kawamura, T. R. Payne, and K. Sycara, "Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities," in Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002)

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K. Sycara, Seth Widoff, Matthias Klusch and Jianguo Lu, "LARKS: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace," in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5, 173–203, 2002.
P. Huang and K. Sycara, "A Computational Model for Online Agent Negotiation," in 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02).
T. R. Payne, M. Paolucci, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Communicating Agents in Open Multi Agent Systems," in First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), 2002.
C. Li and K. Sycara, "Algorithm for Combinatorial Coalition Formation and Payoff Division in an Electronic Marketplace," presented at the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), July 2002, Bologna, Italy.
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Y. W. Seo, J. A. Giampapa, and K. Sycara, "Text classification for intelligent agent portfolio management," First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System 2002.

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W. Yang, and K. Sycara, "Supply Chain Management in Future Energy Markets," in Handbook of Electronic Business, P. Lowry et al. (eds). 2001. (not available in electronic form).

H. Qi, K. Sycara, and S. Zhongmin, "Security Infrastructure for Software Agent Societies," in Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies, Christiano Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. pp. 139-156. (not available in electronic form).

D. Zeng and K. Sycara, "Effects of Learning in Negotiation", Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Allen Kent and James Williams (eds), Vol 44, pp. 15-33, Marcel Dekker Inc., 2001. (not available in electronic form).

J. Yamamoto and K. Sycara, "A Stable and Efficient Buyer Coalition Formation Scheme for E-Marketplaces," presented at the the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001) in Montreal Canada, May 28-June 1, 2001.
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The DAML Services Coalition: A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. R. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D. L. Martin, S. A. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. R. Payne, K. Sycara, and H. Zeng, "DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services," in Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Workshop, 2001

S. Arai and K. Sycara, "Credit Assignment Method for Learning Effective Stochastic Policies in Uncertain Domains," in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001), pp. 815 -- 822 (2001).
G. Economou, M. Paolucci, M. Tsvetovat, and K. Sycara, "Interaction Without Commitments: An Initial Approach." in Agents 2001.
J. A. Giampapa, O. Juarez-Espinosa, and K. Sycara, "Configuration Management for Multi-Agent Systems," in The 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036, USA, June 2001, pp. 230-231.

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J. A. Giampapa and K. Sycara, "Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination," in the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-2001), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 30 July - 2 August 2001.
B. Langley, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Discovery of Infrastructure in Multi-Agent Systems," in Agents 2001 Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS, Montreal, CA., May 29, 2001.

M. Paolucci, O. Shehory, and K. Sycara, "Interleaving Planning and Execution in a Multiagent Team Planning Environment," in Electronic Transactions of Artificial Intelligence, 2001.

M. Paolucci and K. Sycara, "An Exploration in MAS Scalability," IJCAI.
M. Klusch and K. Sycara, "Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey," in Coordination of Internet Agents, A. Omicini et al. (eds.), Springer., 2001.

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2000

M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Evolvability and Static vs. Dynamic Fitness," in C.C. Maley, ed., Workshop Proceedings of Artificial Life VII, August 2000.

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M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Reasons for Premature Convergence of Self-Adapting Mutation Rates," in A. Zalzala et al (eds.), Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press, 2000.

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M. Tsvetovat and K. Sycara, "Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets," in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2000, Minnesota, MN, October, 17-20, 2000. Text Version
M. Tsvetovat, K. Sycara, Y. Chen, and J. Ying, "Customer Coalitions in the Electronic Marketplace," Agents 2000 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 3- June 8, 2000. in .pdf
T. Lenox, S. Hahn, M. Lewis, T. R. Payne, and K. Sycara, "Task characteristics and intelligent aiding," in Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct 8-11, Nashville, TN, pp. 1123-1127, 2000.

T. Tsututa and T. Shintani "Scheduling Meetings using Distributed Valued Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm," in Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2000).

S. Arai, K. Sycara and T. R.Payne "Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Scheduling Multiple-Goals," in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'2000).
S. Arai, K. Sycara, and T. R. Payne, "Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain," in Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1886, Springer-Verlag, pp.125-135 (2000).
S. Arai, S., and K. Sycara, "Effective Learning Approach for Planning and Scheduling in Multi-Agent Domain," in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (From animals to animats 6), pp.507-516 (2000).

H. C. Wong and K. Sycara "A Taxonomy of Middle-agents for the Internet," in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'2000) (An extended version of the paper is available [here])

M. Paolucci, Z. Niu, K. Sycara, C. Domashnev, S. R. Owens and M. Van Velsen, "Matchmaking to Support Intelligent Agents for Portfolio Management" . In Proceedings of AAAI2000 (Demo Session).

G. Sukthankar "Team-aware Multirobot Strategy for Cooperative Path Clearing," in AAAI2000, Student Session.

T. Ito, Naoki Fukuta, T. Shintani, and K. Sycara "BiddingBot: A Multiagent Support System for Cooperative Bidding in Multiple Auctions" . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'2000).

T. Shintani, T. Ito, and K. Sycara, "Multiple Negotiations among Agents for a Distributed Meeting Scheduler" . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS' 2000).

T. R. Payne, T. L. Lenox, S. Hahn, K. Sycara and M.Lewis, "Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams" In CHI 2000 Demonstrations.

T. R. Payne, T. L. Lenox, S.Hahn, M.Lewis, and K. Sycara, "Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task" In HICSS - Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, 2000.

T. L. Lenox, T. R. Payne, S. Hahn, M. Lewis and K. Sycara, "Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks," in Proceedings of IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, 2000.

O. Shehory and K.Sycara, "The Retsina Communicator," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000, Poster Session.

S. Arai and K. Sycara, "Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Conflict Resolution in a Dynamic Domain ," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000, Poster Session.

T. R. Payne, K. Sycara, and M. Lewis, "Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000.

J. A. Giampapa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Agent Interoperation Across Multagent System Boundaries" . In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000.

M. Paolucci, O.Shehory, and K. Sycara "Interleaving Planning and Execution in a Multiagent Team Planning Environment" . In Robotics Institute Technical Report # CMU-RI-TR-00-01.
D. Brugali and K. Sycara, "Towards Agent-Oriented Application Frameworks," in ACM Computing Surveys, March 2000.

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1999

O. Shehory, K. Sycara, G. Sukthankar, and V. Mukherjee, "Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance," in Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1999.
D. Brugali, and K. Sycara, "Agent Technology: A New Frontier for the Development of Application Frameworks?," in Object-Oriented Application Frameworks. Mohamed Fayad, Douglas Schmidt and Ralph Johnson (Eds.). John Wiley, Fall 1999.

M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Comparing Mechanisms for Evolving Evolvability". In A. Wu, ed., Proceedings of 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, July 1999.

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O. Shehory, G. Sukthankar and K. Sycara, "Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance," In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents '99, May 1999, Seattle, Washington, pp. 306-312.

T. L. Lenox, T. R. Payne, S. Hahn, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara "MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams?" In Robotics Institute Technical Report # CMU-RI-TR-99-31.

H. C. Wong and K. Sycara, "Adding Security and Trust to Multi-Agent Systems". In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents '99 (Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies). May 1999, Seattle, Washington, pp. 149-161.

K. Sycara, M. Klusch, S. Widoff, and J. Lu, "Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments". In Journal ACM SIGMOD Record (Special Issue on Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems), A. Ouksel, A. Sheth (Eds.), Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 47-53.

K. Sycara, "In-Context Information Management Through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents," In Intelligent Information Agents: Cooperative, Rational and Adaptive Information Gathering on the Internet. Matthias Klusch (Ed.), Springer Verlag, pp.78-99, May 1999.

K. Sycara, J. Lu, M. Klusch, and S. Widoff, Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet, in Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, Stanford, USA, 1999.

D. Zeng and K. Sycara, "Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents." In Intelligent Information Agents: Cooperative, Rational and Adaptive Information Gathering on the Internet, Matthias Klusch (Ed.), Springer Verlag, 1999.

M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Evolution of Goal-Directed Behavior Using Limited Information in a Complex Environment," in GECCO-99: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Banzhaf, W., Daida, J., Eiben, A. E., Garzon, M. H., Honavar, V., Jakiela, M., and Smith, R. E. (eds.). July 13-17, 1999, Orlando, FL, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 1999.

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O. Shehory, A Scalable Agent Location. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents VI, M. Wooldridge and Y. Lesperance (Eds.), 1999.

M. Paolucci, O. Shehory, K. Sycara, D. Kalp, and A. Pannu, A Planning Component for RETSINA Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents VI. M. Wooldridge and Y. Lesperance (Eds.), 1999.

T. Sandholm, K. Larson, M. Andersson, O. Shehory, O. and F. Tohme, Coalition Structure Generation with Worst Case Guarantees, in Artificial Intelligence Journal, 1999.
O. Shehory, S. Kraus, S. and O. Yadgar, Emergent Cooperative Goal-Satisfaction in Large Scale Automated-Agent Systems, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 1999.

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1998

M. Glickman and K. Sycara, "Evolutionary Algorithms: Exploring the Dynamics of Self-Adaptation," in Koza, J.R., Banzhaf, W., Chellapilla, K. Deb, K., Dorigo, M., Fogel, D.B., Garzon, M.H., Goldberg, D.E, Iba, H. & Riolo, R. (eds.), Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference, pages 762-769, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 22-25 July 1998. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

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L. Chen and K. Sycara, "WebMate: A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching," in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AGENTS '98, ACM, May 1998, pp. 132 - 139. [Abstract] Download: in pdf, ps.gz
K. Sycara, "Multiagent Systems," in AI Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 2. Intelligent Agents, 1998: 79-92.
O. Shehory, and S. Kraus, "Methods for Task Allocation Via Agent Coalition Formation," in Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 101 (1-2), May 1998, pp. 165-200.
Q. He, K. Sycara, and T. Finin, "Personal Security Agent: KQML-Based PKI," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, 1998.

S. Jha, P. Chalasani, O. Shehory, and K. Sycara "A Formal Treatement of Distributed Matchmaking," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, 1998.

P. Chalasani, S. Jha, O. Shehory, and K. Sycara,"Query Restart Strategies for Web Agents," in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, 1998. pp. 124-131, Minneapolis, MN, May 1998.

O. Shehory, K. Sycara. P. Chalasani, P., and S. Jha, "Agent Cloning: An Approach to Agent Mobility and Resource Allocation," in IEEE Communications, Vol. 36, No. 7, July 1998, pp. 58-67.

K. Sycara, "Multiagent Systems," in AI Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 79-92, 1998.

N. Jennings, K. Sycara, K., and M. Wooldridge, "A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development," in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1998.

D. Zeng, and K. Sycara, "Bayesian Learning in Negotiation," in International Journal of Human Computer Systems, Vol. 48, pp.125-141, 1998.

K. Sycara, "Levels of Adaptivity in Systems of Coordinating Information Agents," in M. Klusch, G. Weiss (eds.), Cooperative Information Agents II, Lecture Notes in AI 1435, Springer Verlag, 1998.

S. Kraus, K. Sycara, and Evanchik, "Argumentation in Negotiation: A Formal Model and Implementation," in Artificial Intelligence, (104)1-2, 1998, pp. 1-69.

T. Sandholm, K. Larson, M. Andersson, O. Shehory, O., and F. Tohme, "Worst-Case-Optimal Anytime Coalition Structure Generation," in Proceeding of AAAI-98, pp. 46-53, Madison, WI, July 1998.

O. Shehory, S. Kraus, S. and O. Yadgar, "Goal-Satisfaction in Large-Scale Agent-Systems: A Transportation Example," Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence no. 1555, Intelligent Agents V. A. Rao, M. Singh and J. Muller (Eds.), pp. 277-292.

P. Chalasani, S. Jha, O. Shehory, O. and K. Sycara, "Strategies for Querying Information Agents," in M. Klusch and G. Weiss (eds.), Cooperative Information Agents II, Lecture Notes in AI 1435, Springer Verlag, 1998.

O. Shehory, K. Sycara, P. Chalasani, P. and S. Jha, "Increasing Resource Utilization and Task Performance by Agent Cloning," in Lecture Notes in AI: Intelligent Agents V. A. Rao, M. Singh and M. Wooldridge (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1998.

K. Sycara, K. Decker, and D. Zeng, "Intelligent Agents in Portfolio Management," in N. Jennings and M. Woolridge (eds.), Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets, Chapter 14, Springer 1998, pp. 267-283.

D. Zeng and K. Sycara, "Baysean Learning in Negotiation," in International Journal of Human Computer Systems, Vol 48, pp.125-141, 1998.

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1997

K. Sycara, K. Decker, and M. Williamson, "Middle-Agents for the Internet," Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan, August 1997 pp. 578-584.
D. Zeng, D. and K. Sycara, "Benefits of Learning in Negotiation," in Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), Providence, RI, July 1997.
O. Shehory, K. Sycara, and S. Jha, "Multi-agent Coordination Through Coalition Formation," in Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages. M. Singh, A. Rao and M. Wooldridge, (Eds.). Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1365, 1997, pp. 143-154.

K. Decker, K. Sycara, and M. Williamson, "Cloning for Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents," in Zhang, C. and Lukose D. (eds), Multi-Agent Systems, Springer Verlag, 1997, pp. 63-75.

K. Decker, K. Sycara, A. Pannu, A., and M. Williamson, "Designing Behaviors for Information Agents," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS-97), Feb., Los Angeles, CA, 1997.
J. S. Liu and K. Sycara, "Coordination of Multiple Agents for Production Management," Annals of Operations Research, Vol 75, 1997, pp. 235-289.
K. Decker and K. Sycara, "Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents," in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, vol.9, pp. 239--260, 1997.
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1996

K. Miyashita, K. Sycara, and R. Mizoguchi, "Modeling Ill-Structured Optimization Tasks through Cases," Decision Support Systems, Vol 17, pp. 345-364, 1996.
K. Sycara, "Multi Agent Interactions," in Bots and Other Internet Beasties, Williams, J. (Ed.), SamsNet Publishers, May 1996.

K. Decker, K. Sycara, and M. Williamson, "Matchmaking and Brokering," in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-96), Dec., 1996.

K. Sycara and K. Decker, "Designing Reusable Behaviors for Information Agents," January 1996.

K. Sycara, K. Decker, A. Pannu, M. Williamson, and D. Zeng, "Distributed Intelligent Agents," in IEEE Expert, December 1996.

K. Sycara, K. Decker, and M. Williamson, "Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents," in Working Notes of the AAAI-96 Workshop, "Intelligent Adaptive Agents." August 1996.

K. Sycara, K. Decker, and M. Williamson, "Modeling Information Agents: Advertisements, Organizational Roles, and Dynamic Behavior," in Working Notes of the AAAI-96 Workshop, "Agent Modeling." August 1996.

K. Sycara and A. Pannu, "A Learning Personal Agent for Text Filtering and Notification," in Proceedings of the International Conference of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBCS 96), December 1996.

K. Sycara and A. Pannu, "Learning Text Filtering Preferences," in Symposium on Machine Learning And Information Access. AAAI 96 Symposium Series, Mar., 1996, Stanford, CA. Figure 2., as a 24-bit image, as a PDF

K. Sycara, M. Williamson, and K. Decker, "Executing Decision-Theoretic Plans in Multi-agent Environments" (Extended Abstract), in AAAI Tech Report, "Plan Execution: Problems & Issues." FS-96-01. (version of April 1996).

K. Sycara, M. Williamson, and K. Decker, "Unified Information and Control Flow in Hierarchical Task Networks," in Working Notes of the AAAI-96 Workshop, "Theories of Action, Planning, and Control." August 1996.

K. Sycara, and D. Zeng, "Bayesian Learning in Negotiation," in Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Adaptation, Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems, Standford, CA, 1996.

K. Sycara, and D. Zeng, Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Software Agents, in International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 5, Nos. 2 & 3, 1996.

K. Sycara, and D. Zeng, "Multi-Agent Integration of Information Gathering and Decision Support," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

D. Zeng and K. Sycara, "How Does an Agent Learn to Negotiate?" in J. Muller, M. Woolridge and N.R. Jennings (eds), Intelligent Agents III: Theories, Architectures and Languages, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1193, 1996, pp. 233-244.

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1995

K. Miyashita and K. Sycara, "CABINS : A Framework of Knowledge Acquisition