The AAMAS/AOC group meets every Friday at room R702B to discuss project progress. In addition, every member takes turn to present/discuss latest research papers related to our project.  This page contains a list of papers discussed.

[Last meeting] [Schedule]

2004

[22 Nov]

[8 Nov] [1 Nov][25 Oct][18 Oct][11 Oct] [4 Oct] [13 Sept]

[6 Sept][30 August] [23 August] [16 August] [8 August]

[12 July][5 July] [28 June][21 June][14 June] [7 June][1 June]

2003

[8 July] [30 June]

2002

[5 Dec] [28 Nov] [21 Nov] [14 Nov]

[31 Oct] [24 Oct] [17 Oct] [10 Oct] [26 Sept] [19 Sept] [3 Sept]

[26 Aug] [19 Aug] [12 Aug] [5 Aug][29 July] [22 July] [8 July]

[25 June] [17 June] [11 June] [3 June] [27 May] [6 May]

[29 April] [22 April] [15 April] [8 April] [25 March] [18 March]

Papers Discussed

The scope of the papers will encompass the most representative (major journal articles, or major conference papers, ONLY) as well as up-to-date (preferably, in the past 2-3 years, unless they are classic) work, chosen from the following specific areas:

Below is a list of papers discussed in our group meetings. The main paper(s) and related paper(s) are marked by the and buttons respectively. A set of slides that summarize the papers is usually available and marked by the button. Click on the buttons to download the soft copy of the papers/presentations.

2004

22 November, HoiFung Lam presented

S. M. Majercik and M. L. Littman., Reinforcement learning for selfish load balancing in a distributed memory environment, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Sciences, pp. 262-265, 1997

8 November, Tingting Wang presented

Vince Darley, Chapter 4, Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents, PhD thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard University, June 1999

1 November, Shiwu Zhang presented

B.A. Huberman and L.A. Adamic, Information Dynamics in the Networked World, Lect. Notes Phys. 650, 371-398(2004)

25 October, Bingcheng Hu presented

Vince Darley, Chapter 3, Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents, PhD thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard University, June 1999

18 October, Xiaolong Jin presented

J. Cao, D.P. Spooner, S.A. Jarvis, S. Saini, and G.R. Nudd, Agent-Based Grid Load Balancing Using Performance-Driven Task Scheduling, in Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), Nice, France, April 2003

11 October, HoiFung Lam presented

L. D. Alahakoon , Controlling the spread of dynamic self-organising maps, Neural Computing & Applications, 13(2), June 2004, pp. 168 - 174

4 October, Shiwu Zhang presented

Yolum and M.P. Singh, Dynamic Communities in Referral Networks. In Web intelligence and agent system: An international journal, (2003) 105-116. P.

13 September, Tingting Wang presented

Vince Darley, Chapter 4, Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents, PhD thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard University, June 1999

6 September, Bingcheng Hu presented

Vince Darley, Chapter 3, Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents, PhD thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard University, June 1999

30 August, Xiaolong Jin presented

Vince Darley, Chapter 6, Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents, PhD thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard University, June 1999

23 August, HoiFong Lam presented

Artur Maj, Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Jaroslaw Kolak, Krzysztof Cetnarowicz, "A Multi-agent System for Dynamic Network Reconfiguration" in V. Marik, J. Muller, M. Pechoucek (eds), Multi-agent Systems and Applications III, LNAI 2691, Springer, 2003

16 August, Kevin Tsang presented

Semaview, whitepaper, From Concept to Reality: What the emerging Semantic Web means to your business

Semaview, whitepaper, Social Networking utilizing the Intelligent Internet

Semaview, whitepaper, The Semantic Web Explained

09 August, Tingting Wang presented

H.V.D. Parunak and S. Brueckner, Co-X: Defining what Agents Do Together, Workshop on Team and Coalition Formation, AAMAS'02

12 July, Shiwu Zhang presented

H. Ebel, J. Davidsen, and S. Bornholdt, Dynamics of Social Networks, Proceedings of Concepts for Complex Adaptive Systems, 2002

5 July , Bingcheng Hu presented

From Local Behaviors to Global Characteristics in a Multi-agent System, draft.

28 June, Xiaolong Jin presented

A. Iamnitchi, M. Ripeanu, and I. Foster, Small-World File-Sharing Communities, Infocom 2004, Hong Kong, March 2004

21 June, Kevin Tsang presented

B. Benatallah, M. Dumas, M.C. Fauvet, and F. Rabhi, Towards Patterns of Web Services Composition, TechnicalReport UNSW-CSE-0111, The University of New SouthWales, Sydney, Australia, November 2001

14 June, Tingting Wang presented

A. Galstyan and K. Lerman, Minority Games and Distributed Coordination in Non-Stationary Environments, In Proceedings of IJCNN2002, Hawaii, May 2002.

7 June, Bingcheng Hu presented

M. Prokopenko and P. Wang Evaluating Team Performance at the Edge of Chaos, in Proceedings of the 7th RoboCup-2003 Symposium, Padua, July 2003.

M. Prokopenko and P. Wang Relating the Entropy of Joint Beliefs to Multi-Agent Coordination, in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on RoboCup, 2002.

H.V.D. Parunak and S. Brueckner Entropy and Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems, in International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2001.

A. Wuensche Classifying Cellular Automata Automatically, Complexity, Vol.4, no.3, 47 - 66, 1999.

T. Balch Hierarchic Social Entropy: An Information Theoretic Measure of Robot Group Diversity, Autonomous Robots, vol 8, no 3, July, 2000.

1 June, Xiaolong Jin presented

A. Galstyan, K. Czajkowski, and K. Lerman Resource Allocation in the Grid Using Reinforcement Learning.

2003

8 July, Yuanshi Wang presented

Y Wang, J Liu, Modeling Agent-Based Loading Balancing with Time Delays.

30 June, Yuanshi Wang presented

T. Roughgarden, How Bad is Selfish Routing? Cornell University.

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2002

5 December, Xiaolong Jin presented

D. J. Patterson and H. Kautz, Auto-Walksat: A Self-Tuning Implementation of Walksat, in SAT2001 held at LICS 2001.

28 November, KC Tsui presented

V. Khare and X. Yao, Artificial Speciation and Automatic Modularisation, in Proc. of SEAL’02.

Y. Liu, X. Yao, T. Higuchi, Evolutionary Ensembles with Negative Correlation Learning, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 4(4), pp. 380-387, November, 2000.

21 November, Yuanshi Wang presented

K. Lerman, A. Galstyan, A. Martinoli and A. Jan Ijspeert, A Mathematical Analytical Model of Collaboration in Distributed Robotic Systems,Artificial Life, 7:4, pp. 375-393, 2001.

14 November, Yi Tang will presented

Y. Tang and J. Liu, A DDLM-Based Method for Solving Distributed Solving Problems, working paper.

31 October, Xiaolong Jin presented

T. Walsh, Search in a Small World, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1172-1177, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1999. Morgan Kaufmann.

24 October, KC Tsui presented

L. Buriol, P. M. Franca and P. Moscato, A New Memetic Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem.

17 October, Yuanshi Wang presented

K. Lerman and A. Galstyan, A General Methodology for Mathematical Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems, USC Information Sciences Technical Report ISI-TR-529.

10 October, Yi Tang presented

D. Schuurmans. and F. Southey, Local search characteristics of incomplete SAT procedures, Artificial Intelligence 132(2),  pages 121-150, 2001. (earlier conference paper appeared in Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000)).

26 September, Claire Li presented

S. K. Card et. al., Information Scent as a Driver of Web Behavior Graphs: Results of a Protocol Analysis Method for Web Usability, SIGHCI 2001.

19 September, Xiaolong Jin presented

H. Kautz et. al., Dynamic Restart Policies, Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, July 2002. AAAI Press.

3 September, KC Tsui presented

S. G. Ficici and J. B. Pollack, Pareto Optimality in Coevolutionary Learning, Computer Science Technical Report CS-01-26, University of Brandeis.

J. Noble and R. A. Watson, Pareto coevolution: Using performance against coevolved opponents in a game as dimensions for Pareto selection, in Proceedings of GECCO-1, pp. 493-500, Morgan Kauffmann, San Francisco, 2001.

26 August, Yuanshi Wang presented

K. Lerman, Design and Mathematical Analysis of Agent-based Systems, in Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 1871, p. 222ff., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.

19 August, Claire Li presented

J. Liu and S. Zhang, Characterizing Web Usage Regularities with Information Foraging Agents.

12 August, Yi Tang presented

C. Gomes, B. Selman, N. Crato, and H. Kaulz, Heavy-Tailed Phenomena in Satistiability and Constraint Satisfaction Problems, in Journal of Automated Reasoning, Vol. 24, No. 1/2, pages 67-100, 2000. 

H. chen, C. Gomes, and B. Selman, Formal Models of Heavy-tailed Behavior in Combinatorial Search, in Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming (CP01), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2239, Springer, 2001. 

H. H. Hoos, Heavy-Tailed Behaviour in Randomised Systematic Search Algorithms for SAT? Technical Report TR-99-16, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 1999. 

5 August, Chun Chun Yao presented

A. Montresor, H. Meling, and O. Babaoglu, Towards Adaptive, Resilient and Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Systems, in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Pisa, Italy, May 2002.

29 July, Xiaolong Jin presented

K. Kirayama and M. Yokoo, Local Search for Distributed SAT with Complex Local Problems, in Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agent & Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

M. Yokoo and K. Kirayama, istributed Breakout Algorithm for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems, 1996.

22 July, SW Zhang will presented

C. Kamp and S. Bornholdt , From HIV Infection to AIDS:  A dynamically induced percolation transition?, arXiv:cond-mat/0201482.

8 July, KC Tsui will presented

R. A. Watson and J. B. Pollack, A Computational Model of Symbiotic Composition in Evolutionary Transitions, to appear in BioSystems Journal, 2002.

25 June, Xiaolong Jin presented 

M. Moskewicz, C. Madigan, Y. Zhao, L. Zhang and S. Malik, Chaff: Engineering and Efficient SAT Solver, in 39th Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, June 2001.

L. Zhang, C. Madigan, M. Moskewicz and S. Malik, Efficient Conflict Driven Learning in a Boolean Satisfiability Solver, in Proceedings of !CCAD 2001, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2001

17 June, Shiwu Zhang presented

R. B. Pandey, R. Mannion and H. j. Ruskin, Effect of Cellular Mobility on Immune Response, Physica A 283, pp. 447-450, 2000.

A. Mielke and R. B. Pandey, A Computer Simulation Study of Cell Population in a Fuzzy Interaction Model for Mutating HIV, Physica A 251, pp. 430-438, 1998.

11 June, KC Tsui presented

M. Ebner, M. Shackleton and R. Shipman, How Neutral Networks Influence Evolvability, Complexity Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 19-33, 2001.

R. Shipman and M. Ebner, Issues in Designing a Neutral Genotype-Phenotype Mapping, Proceedings of CEC'02, 2002.

3 June, Markus Kaiser presented

R. P. Wiegand, W. C. Liles and K. A. De Jong, Analyzing Cooperative Coevolution with Evolutionary Game Theory, Proceedings of CEC'02, 2002.

27 May, Xiaolong Jin presented 

W. Walsh and M. Wellman, MarketSAT: An Extremely Decentralized (but Really Slow) Algorithm for Prepositional Satisfiability, Proceedings AAAI, 2000.

6 May, Shiwu Zhang presented

U. Hershberg, Y. Louzoun, H. Atlan and S. Solomon, HIV time Hierarchy: Winning the war While, Loosing all the Battles, arXiv:nlin.AO/0006023 v3, 23 August 2000.

R. M. Zorzenon dos Santos, Dynamics of HIV Infection: A Cellular Automata Approach, Physical Review Letters, Vol 87, No 16, pp. 168102-1/4, 15 October 2001.

29 April, KC Tsui presented

S. Baluja and R. Caruana, Removing the Genetics from the Standard Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings ICML, 1995.

22 April, Markus Kaiser presented

Kennedy and Eberhart, Particle Swam Optimization.

15 April, Xiaolong Jin presented 

E. A. Hirsch and A. Kojevnikov, UnitWalk: A New SAT Solver that uses Local Search Guided by Unit Clause Elimination, 2002.

8 April, Shiwu Zhang presented

M. E. J. Newman, Models of the Small World, May 2000.

Z. Dezso and A.L. Barabasi, Halting virus in Scale-free Networks, 2002.

R.P. Satorras and A.Vespignami, Epidemic Spreading in Scale-free Networks, PRL, (86)14, pp. 3200-3203, 2001.

H, Jeong et al., The Large-scale Organization of Metabolic Networks, Nature, (407), pp. 651-654, 2000.

R. Albert et al., Error and Attack Tolerance of Complex Networks, Nature (406), pp. 378-382, 2000.

A.L. Barabasi et al., Scale-free Characteristics of Random Networks: the Topology of the World-Wide Web, Physica A (281), pp. 70-77, 2000.

A.L. Barabasi and R. Albert, Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks, Science (286), pp. 509-512, 1998.

D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks, Nature, (393), pp. 440-442, 1998.

25 March, KC Tsui presented

M. A. Potter and K. A. De Jong, Cooperative Coevolution: An Architecture for Evolving Coadapted Subcomponents, Evolutionary Computation 8(1): 1-29, 2000.

D. E. Moriarty and R. Miikkulainen, Forming Neural Networks Through Efficient and Adaptive Coevolution, Evolutionary Computation 5(4): 373-399, 1998.

C. D. Rosin and R. K. Belew, New Methods for Competitive Coevolution, Evolutionary Computation 5(1): 1-29, 1997.

18 March, Markus Kaiser presented

V. A. Cicirello and S. F. Smith, Wasp-Like Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination, CMU Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-01-39, 2001.

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