Multilevel Coordination Mechanisms for Real-Time Autonomous Agents

Publications as of September, 2001.

• Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett, Gregg R. Rabideau, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Using Abstraction in Planning and Scheduling.” In Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Planning (ECP-01), September 2001.

· Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett, Edmund H. Durfee and Gregg R. Rabideau. “Planning with Resources at Multiple Levels of Abstraction.” To appear in the proceedings of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on Planning with Resources, August 2001.

· Edmund H. Durfee. “Scaling Up Agent Coordination Strategies.” IEEE Computer 34(7):39-46, July 2001.

• Jeffrey S. Cox, Bradley C. Clement, Pradeep M. Pappachan, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Integrating Multiagent Coordination with Reactive Plan Execution.” (abstract) Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-01), June 2001.

· Pradeep M. Pappachan and Edmund H. Durfee. “A satisficing multiagent plan coordination algorithm for dynamic domains.” (abstract) Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-01), June 2001.

· Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Performance of Coordinating Concurrent Hierarchical Planning Agents Using Summary Information.” In Proceedings of the 2000 International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-2000), July 2000.

· Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Performance of Coordinating Concurrent Hierarchical Planning Agents Using Summary Information.” (abstract) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, pages 373-4, July 2000.

· Pradeep M. Pappachan and Edmund H. Durfee. “Interleaved Plan Coordination and Execution in Dynamic Multi-agent Domains.” (abstract) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, pages 425-6, July 2000.

· Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Exploiting Domain Knowledge with a Concurrent Hierarchical Planner.” AI and Planning Systems (AIPS-2000) Workshop on Analysing and Exploiting Domain Knowledge for Efficient Planning, Working Notes, 57-62, April 2000.

• Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Theory for Coordinating Concurrent Hierarchical Planning Agents Using Summary Information.” In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), pages 495-502, July 1999.

• Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Identifying and Resolving Conflicts among Agents with Hierarchical Plans.” In AAAI Workshop on Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities, AAAI Technical Report WS-99-12, 6-11, 1999.

• Bradley J. Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Top-Down Search for Coordinating the Hierarchical Plans of Multiple Agents.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 252-259, May 1999.

Related publications.

• Edmund H. Durfee. "Practically Coordinating." AI Magazine 20(1):99-116, Spring 1999.

• Edmund H. Durfee. Distributed problem solving and planning. In G.Weiss (ed.), Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, to appear 1999.

• Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl C. Kluge. "Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles." Autonomous Robots, 5:1-14, 1998.

• Edmund H. Durfee and Young-pa So. "The Effects of Runtime Coordination Strategies Within Static Organizations." In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97), pages 612-618, August 1997.

• Jaeho Lee and Edmund Durfee. "On explicit plan languages for coordinated multiagent plan execution." In Proceedings of The 1997 International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), July 1997.

• Thomas A. Montgomery and Edmund H. Durfee. "Search Reduction in Hierarchical Distributed Problem Solving." Group Decision and Negotiation 2:301-317 (Special issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence), 1993.

• Edmund H. Durfee. "Organisations, Plans, and Schedules: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Coordinating AI Systems." Journal of Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on the Social Context of Intelligent Systems, 3(2-4), 1993.

• Edmund H. Durfee and Thomas A. Montgomery. "Coordination as Distributed Search in a Hierarchical Behavior Space." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, SMC-21(6):1363-1378, November 1991.

• Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. "Partial Global Planning: A Coordination Framework for Distributed Hypothesis Formation." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Sensor Networks, SMC-21(5):1167-1183, September 1991.

• Edmund H. Durfee and Thomas A. Montgomery. "A Hierarchical Protocol for Coordinating Multiagent Behaviors." In Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 86--93, July 1990.