AOC Books

Autonomy Oriented Computing - From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling Authors: Liu, Jiming, Jin, XiaoLong, Tsui, Kwok Ching Publisher: Springer 2005, XXXII, 216 p., 57 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 1-4020-8121-9 For retail information, please visit Springer Online View the website of this book

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AOC Papers

The following is a list of selected AOC papers (and/or related software tools) grouped according to:

• Inverse-Chronological Order
• Topics

Publications in an Inverse-Chronological Order

2005

• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Kwok Ching Tsui, Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC): Formulating Computational Systems with Autonomous Components, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans (in press); [PDF]
• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Yuanshi Wang, Agent-Based Load Balancing on Homogeneous Minigrids: Macroscopic Modeling and Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (in Press). [PDF]

2004

• Jiming Liu, Shiwu Zhang, and Jie Yang, Characterizing Web Usage Regularities with Information Foraging Agents, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 566-584, 2004. [PDF] [Software]

2003

• Jiming Liu, Web Intelligence (WI): What Makes Wisdom Web? in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, Aug. 9-15, 2003, pp. 1596-1601, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers;
• Jiming Liu, Web Intelligence (WI): Some Research Challenges, Invited Talk, the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, Aug. 9-15, 2003;
• Yuanshi Wang and Jiming Liu, Macroscopic Model of Agent Based Load Balancing on Grids, in Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'03), Melbourne, Australia, Jul. 14-18, 2003;
• Kwok Cing Tsui, Jiming Liu, and M. J. Kaiser, Self-Organized Load Balancing in Proxy Servers, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-50, 2003.

2002

• Jiming Liu, Han Jing, and Y. Y. Tang, Multi-Agent Oriented Constraint Satisfaction, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 136 , No. 1, pp. 101-144, 2002; [PDF]
• Jiming Liu and Yi Zhao, On Adaptive Agentlets for Distributed Divide-and-Conquer: A Dynamical Systems Approach, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 214-227, 2002;
• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Jing Han, A Self-Organizing Approach to Solving Constraint Satisfaction and Satisfiability Problems, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1041-1064, 2002; [Software]
• Xiaolong Jin and Jiming Liu, Multiagent SAT (MASSAT): Autonomous Pattern Search in Constrained Domains, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'02), Hujun Yin et. al. Eds., pp. 318-328, Manchester, UK, Aug. 2002; [Software]
• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Multi-agent Diffusion Approach to Optimization, International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 715-733, 2002; [Software]
• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Diffusion Optimization, Part I: Description of the Algorithm, in Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002; [Software]
• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Diffusion Optimization, Part II: Performance Assessment, in Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002; [Software]
• Jiming Liu and Hong Qin, Behavioral Self-Organization in Synthetic Agents, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 397-428, 2002.

2001

• Jiming Liu and Jianbing Wu, Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, CRC Press, 2001;
• Jiming Liu, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Explorations in Learning, Self-Organization, and Adaptive Computation, World Scientific Publishing, 2001;
• Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui, and Jianbing Wu, Introducing Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC), in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC 2001), pp. 1-11, Montreal, May, 2001.

2000

• Jiming Liu and Jian Yin, Multi-Agent Integer Programming. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1983, Springer, pp. 301-307, 2000.

1999

• Jing Han, Jiming Liu, and Q. Cai, From ALife Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens, in Jiming Liu and Ning Zhong, editors, Intelligent Agent Technology: Systems, Methodologies, and Tools, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 110-120, 1999;
• Jiming Liu and Jianbing Wu, Evolutionary Group Robots for Collective World Modeling, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS'99), Seattle, WA, May 1-5, 1999;

1997

• Jiming Liu, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. Cao, An Evolutionary Autonomous Agents Approach to Image Feature Extraction, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 141-158, 1997; [PDF]
• Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. Wu, Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS'97), Marina del Rey, California, Feb. 5-8, 1997.

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Publications by Topics

AOC in General

• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Kwok Ching Tsui, Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC): Formulating Computational Systems with Autonomous Components, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans (in press); [PDF]
• Jiming Liu, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Explorations in Learning, Self-Organization, and Adaptive Computation, World Scientific Publishing, 2001;
• Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui, and Jianbing Wu, Introducing Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC), in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC 2001), pp. 1-11, Montreal, May, 2001;
• Jiming Liu and Jianbing Wu, Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, CRC Press, 2001;

Web Regularity Characterization

• Jiming Liu, Shiwu Zhang, and Jie Yang, Characterizing Web Usage Regularities with Information Foraging Agents, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 566-584, 2004. [PDF] [Software]

AOC Based CSP Solver: ERA

• Jiming Liu, Han Jing, and Y. Y. Tang, Multi-Agent Oriented Constraint Satisfaction, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 136 , No. 1, pp. 101-144, 2002; [PDF]
• Jing Han, Jiming Liu, and Q. Cai, From ALife Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens, in Jiming Liu and Ning Zhong, editors, Intelligent Agent Technology: Systems, Methodologies, and Tools, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 110-120, 1999.

AOC Based SAT Solver: MASSAT

• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Jing Han, A Self-Organizing Approach to Solving Constraint Satisfaction and Satisfiability Problems, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1041-1064, 2002; [Software]
• Xiaolong Jin and Jiming Liu, Multiagent SAT (MASSAT): Autonomous Pattern Search in Constrained Domains, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'02), Hujun Yin et. al. Eds., pp. 318-328, Manchester, UK, Aug. 2002; [Software]

AOC Based Optimizer: EDO

• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Multi-agent Diffusion Approach to Optimization, International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 715-733, 2002; [PS] [Software]
• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Diffusion Optimization, Part I: Description of the Algorithm, in Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002; [Software]
• Kwok Ching Tsui and Jiming Liu, Evolutionary Diffusion Optimization, Part II: Performance Assessment, in Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002. [Software]

Web Intelligence (WI)

• Jiming Liu, Web Intelligence (WI): What Makes Wisdom Web? in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, Aug. 9-15, 2003, pp. 1596-1601, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers;
• Jiming Liu, Web Intelligence (WI): Some Research Challenges, Invited Talk, the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, Aug. 9-15, 2003;

Image Processing and Feature Extraction

• Jiming Liu and Yi Zhao, On Adaptive Agentlets for Distributed Divide-and-Conquer: A Dynamical Systems Approach, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 214-227, 2002;
• Jiming Liu, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. Cao, An Evolutionary Autonomous Agents Approach to Image Feature Extraction, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 141-158, 1997. [PDF]

Load Balancing

• Jiming Liu, Xiaolong Jin, and Yuanshi Wang, Agent-Based Load Balancing on Homogeneous Minigrids: Macroscopic Modeling and Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (in Press); [PDF] [Software]
• Kwok Cing Tsui, Jiming Liu, and M. J. Kaiser, Self-Organized Load Balancing in Proxy Servers, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-50, 2003;
• Yuanshi Wang and Jiming Liu, Macroscopic Model of Agent Based Load Balancing on Grids, in Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Melbourne, Australia, Jul. 14-18, 2003.

Behavioral Self-Organization

• Jiming Liu and Hong Qin, Behavioral Self-Organization in Synthetic Agents, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 397-428, 2002;
• Jiming Liu and Jianbing Wu, Evolutionary Group Robots for Collective World Modeling, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS'99), Seattle, WA, May 1-5, 1999;
• Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. Wu, Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS'97), Marina del Rey, California, Feb. 5-8, 1997.

Mathematical Programming

• Jiming Liu and Jian Yin, Multi-Agent Integer Programming. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1983, Springer, pp. 301-307, 2000.

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