Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, Distributed Computing, Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving, Distributed Planning and Coordination, Organizational Design, Intelligent Communication, Real-Time Intelligent Control.

Education:

Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, Sept. 1987. Dissertation: A Unified Approach to Dynamic Coordination: Planning actions and interactions in a distributed problem solving network.

Advisor: Victor R. Lesser

M.S.E.C.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Sept. 1984.

A.B. Chemistry and Physics cum laude, Harvard University, June 1980.

Honors and Awards:

· Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004.

· Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering Service Excellence Award, 2002.

· Fellow, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2001.

· Univ. of Michigan EECS Department Outstanding Achievement Award, 2001.

· Univ. of Michigan EECS Department Research Excellence Award, 1996.

· Plenary speaker, First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, 1995.

· Invited speaker, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-92), 1992.

· NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1991.

· IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1986--1987 academic year.

· University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 1985--1986 academic year.

Current Position:

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2000-.

Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2000-.

Previous Positions:

Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and Adjunct Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rhodes University, South Africa, February-March, 2002.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, and in the School of Information, University of Michigan, 1994-2000.

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel, January-April, 1995.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1988-1994.

Post-doctoral Research Computer Scientist, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, 1987-1988.

Research Assistant under the direction of Victor R. Lesser, in the Distributed Problem Solving Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, 1983-1987.

Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 1982-1983.

Associate Staff Chemist, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY, 1980-1982.

Summer Research Trainee, General Foods Research and Development Center, Tarrytown, NY, summers of 1978 and 1979.

Research Activities

Papers in Journals and Refereed Magazines:

Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “Use of Markov Chains to Design an Agent Bidding Strategy for Continuous Double Auctions.” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), to appear.

Christopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee. “Congregation Formation in MultiAgent Systems.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal, 7(1-2):145-170, July/September 2003.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Predicting the expected behavior of agents that learn about agents: The CLRI framework.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal, 6(1):77-107, January 2003.

Edmund H. Durfee, Sarit Kraus, Hideyuki Nakashima, and Milind Tambe. “Editorial: Special Issue on the International Conference on MultiAgent Systems 2000.” Artificial Intelligence 142:95-97, December 2002.

Christopher H. Brooks, Robert S. Gazzale, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing what to Learn.” Computational Intelligence, 18(4):566-582 2002.

David N. Allsopp, Patrick Beautement, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Edmund H. Durfee, Michael Kirton, Craig A. Knoblock, Niranjan Suri, Austin Tate, and Craig W. Thompson. “Coalition Agents Experiment: Multiagent Cooperation in International Coalitions.” IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(3):26-35, May/June 2002.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “Rational Communication in Multi-Agent Systems.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal, 4(3):233-272, September 2001.

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

Ella M. Atkins, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal (“Best of Agents’99” special issue), 4(1-2):57-78, March/June 2001.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “Rational Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal, 3(4):319-350, December 2000.

Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents.” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal (“Best of ICMAS’98” special issue), 3(1):33-51, March 2000.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Distributed Continual Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Teams.” AI Magazine 20(4):55-61 (Special section on Distributed Continual Planning), Winter, 1999.

Marie E. desJardins, Edmund H. Durfee, Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., and Michael J. Wolverton. “A Survey of Research in Distributed, Continual Planning.” AI Magazine 20(4):13-22 (Special section on Distributed Continual Planning), Winter, 1999.

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

Peter Weinstein, William P. Birmingham, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Agent-Based Digital Libraries: Decentralization and Coordination.” IEEE Communications Magazine, 37(1):110-115, January 1999.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Learning Nested Agent Models in an Information Economy.” Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (special issue on learning in distributed artificial intelligence systems), 10(3):291-308,1998.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Formal Study of Distributed Meeting Scheduling.” Group Decision and Negotiation, 7:265-289, 1998.

Makoto Yokoo, Edmund H. Durfee, Toru Ishida, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara. “Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, TKDE10(5):673-685, September 1998.

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. (Reprinted in Autonomous Agents (G. Bekey, editor), pages 97-110, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.)

Edmund H. Durfee, Daniel L. Kiskis, and William P. Birmingham. “The Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library.” IEE/British Computer Society Proceedings on Software Engineering (Special Issue on Intelligent Agents), 144(1):61-71, February 1997. Also published in Readings in Agents (M. N. Huhns and M. P. Singh, editors), Morgan Kaufmann 1998.

Innes A. Ferguson and Edmund H. Durfee. “Artificial intelligence in digital libraries: moving from chaos to (more) order.” Introductory editorial in the International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(1):1-2, 1998.

Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee. “Designing Tree-Structured Organizations for Computational Agents.” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2(3):219-246, Fall 1996.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Contracting Model for Flexible Distributed Scheduling.” Annals of Operations Research (Special issue on integration of AI and OR and decision analysis), volume 65 pages 195-222, 1996.

Michael P. Wellman, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “The Digital Library as a Community of Information Agents.” IEEE Expert. 11(3):10-11, June 1996.

Daniel E. Atkins III, William P. Birmingham, Edmund. H. Durfee, Eric Glover, Tracy Mullen, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elliot Soloway, José M. Vidal, Raven Wallace, and Michael P. Wellman. “Toward inquiry-based education through interacting software agents.” IEEE Computer (Special issue on building large-scale digital libraries), 29(5):69-76, May 1996.

David J. Musliner, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “World Modeling for the Dynamic Construction of Real-Time Control Plans.” Artificial Intelligence volume 74, pp 83-127, 1995.

David J. Musliner, James A. Hendler, Ashok K. Agrawala, Edmund H. Durfee, Jay K. Strosnider, and C. J. Paul. “The Challenge of Real-Time Artificial Intelligence.” IEEE Computer 28(1):58-66, January 1995.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “The Role of Commitment in Cooperative Negotiation.” International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3(1):67-81, 1994.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “Toward a Theory of Honesty and Trust Among Communicating Autonomous Agents.” Group Decision and Negotiation 2:237-258 (Special issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence), 1993.

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.

David J. Musliner, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “CIRCA: A Cooperative Intelligent Real-Time Control Architecture.” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Special Issue on Planning, Scheduling, and Control) SMC-23(6):1561-1574, 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):157-187, 1993.

Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Distributed Problem-Solving Infrastructure for Computer Network Management.” International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 1(2):363-392, 1992.

Makoto Yokoo, Edmund H. Durfee, Toru Ishida, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara. “Distributed Constraint Satisfaction for Formalizing Distributed Problem Solving and its Algorithms.” The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, J-75,D-I(8):704-713, 1992. (In Japanese.)

Mark Adler, Edmund Durfee, Michael Huhns, William Punch, and Evangelos Simoudis. “AAAI Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems.” AI Magazine 13(2):39-42, Summer 1992.

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. “The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Melting Pot.” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, SMC-21(6):1301-1306, 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, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Trends in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,

KDE-1(1):63-83, March 1989.

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Incremental Planning to Control a Time-Constrained, Blackboard-Based Problem Solver.” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, special issue on space telerobotics, 24(5):647-662, September 1988.

Victor R. Lesser, Jasmina Pavlin, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Approximate Processing in Real-Time Problem Solving.” AI Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1, pages 49--61, Spring 1988.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Coherent Cooperation Among Communicating Problem Solvers.” IEEE Transactions on Computers, C36(11):1275--1291, November 1987. (Also published in Readings in

Distributed Artificial Intelligence , pp. 268--284, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan

Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988.)

Papers in Highly Refereed Proceedings:

Dmitri A. Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Graphical Models in Local, Asymmetric Multi-Agent Markov Decision Processes.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-04), pages 956-963, July 2004.

Jianhui Wu and Edmund H. Durfee. “The Impact of Communication Costs and Limitations on Price Wars.” In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-04), pages 1205-1212, July 2004. (One of three finalists for the Best Student Paper Award.)

Dmitri A. Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Resource Allocation and Policy Formulation for Multiple Resource-Limited Agents Under Uncertainty.” To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, June 2004.

Dmitri A. Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Approximating Optimal Policies for Agents with Limited Execution Resources.” In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), pages 1107-1112, August 2003.

Jeffrey S. Cox and Edmund H. Durfee. “Discovering and Exploiting Synergy between Hierarchical Planning Agents.” In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 281-288, July 2003.

Haksun Li, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Multiagent Planning for Agents with Internal Execution Resource Constraints.” In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 560-567, July 2003.

Thomas Bartold and Edmund H. Durfee. “Limiting Disruption in Multiagent Replanning.” In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 49-56, July 2003.

Christopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee. “Congregating and Market Formation.” In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 96-103, July, 2002.

Dmitri Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Satisficing Strategies for Resource-Limited Policy Search in Dynamic Environments.” In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1325-1332, July, 2002.

Jeffrey O. Kephart, Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Robert Gazzale, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2001 (EC-01), pages 180-190, October 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), pages 145-156, September 2001.

Christopher H. Brooks, Edmund H. Durfee and Rajarshi Das. “Price Wars and Niche Discovery in an Information Economy.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2000 (EC-00), pages 95-106, October 2000.

Christopher H. Brooks, Edmund H. Durfee and Aaron Armstrong. “An Introduction to Congregating in Multiagent Systems.” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000), pages 79-86, July 2000.

Christopher H. Brooks, Scott Fay, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey O. Kephart and Edmund H. Durfee. “Automated Strategy Searches in an Electronic Goods Market: Learning and Complex Price Schedules.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99), pages 31-40, November, 1999.

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.

Ella M. Atkins, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-time Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 244-251, May 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.

Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “An Adaptive Agent Bidding Strategy based on Stochastic Modeling.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 147-153, May 1999.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “The Moving Target Function Problem in Multi-Agent Learning.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98), pages 317-324, July 1998.

Aaron Armstrong and Edmund H. Durfee. “Mixing and Memory: Emergent Cooperation in an Information Marketplace.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98), pages 34-41, July 1998.

Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “Emergent Properties of a Market-Based Digital Library with Strategic Agents.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98), pages 230-237, July 1998.

Bradley Clement and Edmund H. Durfee. “Scheduling High-Level Tasks Among Cooperative Agents.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS98), pages 96-103, July 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.

Chip McVey, Edmund H. Durfee, Ella Atkins, and Kang G. Shin. “Development of Iterative Real-time Scheduler to Planner Feedback.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97), pages 1267-1272, August 1997.

Aaron Armstrong and Edmund H. Durfee. “Dynamic Prioritization of Complex Agents in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97), pages 620-625, August 1997.

Ella M. Atkins, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Detecting and Reacting to Unplanned-for World States.” In Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI97), pages 571-577, July 1997.

Edmund H. Durfee, Marcus J. Huber, Michael Kurnow, and Jaeho Lee. “TAIPE: Tactical Assistants for Interaction Planning and Execution.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 443-450, February 1997.

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl C. Kluge. “Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 348-354, February 1997.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “The Impact of Nested Agent Models in an Information Economy.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS96), pages 377-384, December 1996.

Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, and William P. Birmingham. “Advantages of Strategic Thinking in Multiagent Contracts (A Mechanism and Analysis).” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS96), pages 259-266, December 1996.

Marcus J. Huber and Edmund H. Durfee. “An Initial Assessment of Plan-Recognition-Based Coordination for Multi-Agent Teams.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS96), pages 126-133, December 1996.

Ella M. Atkins, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Plan Development Using Local Probabilistic Models.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages 49-56, July 1996.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Rigorous, Operational Formalization of Recursive Modeling.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), pages 125-132, June 1995.

Marcus J. Huber and Edmund H. Durfee. “Deciding When to Commit to Action During Observation-based Coordination.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), pages 163-170, June 1995.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “Unsupervised Surrogate Agents and Search Bias Change in Flexible Distributed Scheduling.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), pages 336-343, June 1995.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Recursive Agent Modeling Using Limited Rationality.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), pages 376-383, June 1995.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), pages 406-413, June 1995.

Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, and Michael P. Wellman. “The Automated Mapping of Plans for Plan Recognition.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, July 1994.

Jaeho Lee and Edmund H. Durfee. “Structured Circuit Semantics for Reactive Plan Execution Systems.” In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1232-1237, July 1994.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “Elements of a Utilitarian Theory of Knowledge and Action.” In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 396-402, August 1993.

Edmund H. Durfee, Jaeho Lee, and Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz. “Overeager Reciprocal Rationality and Mixed Strategy Equilibria.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 225-230, July 1993.

Edmund H. Durfee. “What Your Computer Really Needs to Know, You Learned in Kindergarten.” In Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 858-864, July 1992.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Logic of Knowledge and Belief for Recursive Modeling: Preliminary report.” In Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 628-634, July 1992.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee. “Decision-Theoretic Recursive Modeling and the Coordinated Attack Problem.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on AI Planning Systems, June 1992.

Makoto Yokoo, Edmund H. Durfee, Toru Ishida, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara. “Distributed Constraint Satisfaction for Formalizing Distributed Problem Solving.” In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pages 614-621, June 1992.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Edmund H. Durfee, and David K. Wehe. “A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Coordinating Multiagent Interactions.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 62-68, August 1991.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Edmund H. Durfee, and David K. Wehe. “The Utility of Communication in Coordinating Intelligent Agents.” In Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 166-172, July 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.

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Predictability Versus Responsiveness: Coordinating Problem Solvers in Dynamic Domains.” In Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , pages 66--71, August 1988.(Also appeared as “Planning Coordinated Actions in Dynamic Domains” in Proceedings of the DARPA Knowledge-based Planning Workshop, pp. 18-1---18-10, Austin, Texas, Dec. 1987.)

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Using Partial Global Plans to Coordinate Distributed Problem Solvers.” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 875--883, August 1987. (Also published in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pp. 285--293, A. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California, 1988.)

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Incremental Planning to Control a Blackboard-based Problem Solver.” In Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Artificial

Intelligence, pages 58--64, August 1986.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Increasing Coherence in a Distributed Problem Solving Network.” In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1025--1030, August 1985.

Papers in Other Published Proceedings:

Jeffrey S. Cox and Edmund H. Durfee. “Managing the Complexity of the Multiagent Plan Merging Problem.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-04), pages 1342-1343, July 2004.

Dmitri A Dolgov and Edmund Durfee, “Approximate probabilistic constraints and risk-sensitive optimization criteria in Markov decision processes.” In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (AI&Math 04), January 2004.

Dmitri A Dolgov and Edmund Durfee, “Resource Allocation and Multiagent Policy Formulation for Resource-Limited Agents Under Uncertainty.” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA IV), January 2004.

Haksun Li, Ella Atkins, Edmund Durfee, and Kang Shin. “Resource Allocation for a Limited Real-Time Agent.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1050-1051, July 2003.

Dmitri Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Bounded-Optimal Policies for Agents with

Resource-Limited Architectures.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 974-975, July 2003.

Christopher H. Brooks, Robert S. Gazzale, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-03), June 2003.

Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett, Gregg R. Rabideau, and Edmund H. Durfee. "Using Abstraction to Coordinate Multiple Robotic Spacecraft." Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 2140-2147, October 2001.

Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Robert S. Gazzale and Edmund H. Durfee. "Information Bundling in a Dynamic Environment." Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, Yale University, June 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), pages 149-150, 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), pages 151-152, June 2001.

Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee. “Performance Model of Tree-structured Organizations with Agent Failures .” Proceedings of the International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000), December 2000.

Christopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee. “Automated Learning of Pricing and Bundling Strategies in Information Economies” (abstract) Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 1066, August, 2000.

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), pages 202-216, 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.

Tomaso Bersano-Begey, Patrick G. Kenny, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Agent Teamwork, Adaptive Learning, and Adversarial Planning in Robocup Using a PRS Architecture.” In RoboCup-97: The First Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, Peter Weinstein, and José Vidal. “The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society.” In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, Springer-Verlag, pages 55-78, July, 1998.

José Vidal, Tracy Mullen, Peter Weinstein, and and Edmund H. Durfee. “The UMDL Service Market Society.” (Abstract) In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS-98), May 1998.

Coury, B.G., Sadowsky, J., Schuster, P.R., Kurnow, M., Huber, M.J., and Durfee, E.H. “Reducing the interaction burden of complex systems.” In the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 41st Annual Meeting (Santa Monica, CA: HFES), 335-339, 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.

Kenny, Patrick G.; Durfee, Edmund H.; and Kluge, Karl C. “Mission Planning and Coordinated Execution for Unmanned Vehicles.” In Proceedings of the Sixth Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation Conference, pages 329-335, July 1996.

Ella M. Atkins, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Expecting the Unexpected: Detecting and Reacting to Unplanned-for World States.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 1377, July 1996.

Sunju Park and Edmund H. Durfee. “Contracting Strategy based on Markov Process Modeling.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 1400, July 1996.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Agents Modeling Agents in Information Economies.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 1415, July 1996.

Jaeho Lee and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Microeconomic Approach to Intelligent Resource Sharing in Multiagent Systems.” (abstract) In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), page 457, June 1995.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “The Role of Commitment in Cooperative Negotiation.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, pages 235-242, May 1994.

Patrick G. Kenny, Clint R. Bidlack, Karl C. Kluge, Jaeho Lee, Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, and Terry Weymouth. “Implementation of a Reactive Autonomous Navigation System on an Outdoor Mobile Robot.” In Proceedings of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Annual National Symposium (AUVS-94), pages 233-239, May 1994.

David J. Musliner, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Predictive Sufficiency and the Use of Stored Internal State.” In Proceedings of the AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space, pages 298-305, March 1994.

Jaeho Lee, Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, and Patrick G. Kenny. “UM-PRS: An Implementation of the Procedural Reasoning System for Multirobot Applications.” In Proceedings of the AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space, pages 842-849, March 1994.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “On the Design of an Adaptive Meeting Scheduler.” In Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, pages 40-46, March 1994.

Masahiro Inoue, Edmund H. Durfee, and Yoshiyuki Honda. “Cooperative Electric Load Management by Distributed Artificial Intelligence.” In The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, June 1993.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “Using Temporal Abstractions and Cancellations for Efficiency in Automated Meeting Scheduling.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, pages 163-172, May 1993.

Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee. “Distributed Big Brother.” In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, pages 295-301, March 1992.

Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee. “A Formal Study of Distributed Meeting Scheduling: Preliminary Results.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, pages 55-68, November 1991.

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Edmund H. Durfee, and David K. Wehe. “Combining Decision Theory and Hierarchical Planning for a Time-Dependent Robotic Application.” In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, pages 282-288, February 1991.

David J. Musliner, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin. “Execution Monitoring and Recovery Planning with Time.” In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, pages 385-388, February 1991.

Edmund H. Durfee. “A Cooperative Approach to Planning for Real-Time Control.” In Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, pages 277-283, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, November 1990.

Thomas A. Montgomery and Edmund H. Durfee. “Using MICE to Study Intelligent Dynamic Coordination.” In Proceedings of the Second Computer Society International

Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, pages 438-444, November 1990.

Edmund H. Durfee, Daniel D. Corkill, and Victor R. Lesser. “Distributing a Distributed Problem Solving Network Simulator.” Proceedings of the Fifth Real-time Systems Symposium, pages 237--246, December 1984.

Books:

Edmund H. Durfee. Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston 1988.

Chapters in Books:

Christopher H. Brooks, Robert S. Gazzale, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge.” In Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce-V, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI, 2004.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Challenges to Scaling Up Agent Coordination Strategies.” To appear in T. Wagner (ed.), Multi-Agent Systems: An Application Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Christopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee. “Using Landscape Theory to Measure Learning Difficulty for Adaptive Agents.” In E. Alonso (ed.), Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI 2636, Berlin 2003.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Multi-Agent Systems,” in M. Arbib (ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2002.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs in Multi-Agent Systems.” In M. d’Inverno, M. Luck, M. Fisher, and C. Preist (eds.), Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: UKMAS Workshops 1996-2000 Selected Papers, pages 19-26, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI 2403, Berlin 2002. Originally appeared in The DoD Software Tech News, 5(1):3-8, January 2002.

Edmund H. Durfee. Distributed problem solving and planning. In M. Luck, V. Marik, O. Stepankova, and R. Trappl (eds.), Multiagent Systems and Applications: Selected tutorial papers from the Ninth ECCAI Advanced Course (ACAI 2001) and AgentLink’s Third European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2001), pages 118-149, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI 2086, Berlin 2001.

Edmund H. Durfee, Daniel Damouth, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Marcus J. Huber, Thomas A. Montgomery, and Sandip Sen.Coordination as Distributed Search. In G.M. Olson, T.W. Malone & J.B. Smith (Eds.), Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology, chapter 3, pages 67-92. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, José M. Vidal, and Peter Weinstein. Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy. In M. Klusch, editor, Intelligent Information Agents, Chapter 8 (pages 176-203), Springer Verlag, 1999.

Edmund H. Durfee. Distributed problem solving and planning. In G.Weiss (ed.), Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 3 (pages 121-164), MIT Press, 1999.

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl C. Kluge. “Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” In Autonomous Agents (G. Bekey, editor), pages 97-110, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. (Reprint of article published in the journal Autonomous Robots in 1998.)

Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee. “Designing Organizations for Computational Agents,” in M. Prietula , K. Carley, and L. Gasser (eds.) Simulating Organizations, pages 47-64, AAAI Press/ MIT Press, 1998.

José M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee. “Using Recursive Agent Models Effectively,” in M. Wooldridge, J. Muller, and M. Tambe (eds.) Intelligent Agents, volume II, pages 171-186, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Distributed Artificial Intelligence,” in M. Arbib (ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks , pages 322-326, MIT Press, 1995.

Edmund H. Durfee. “Planning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence,” in G. M. P. O'Hare and N. Jennings (eds.) Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pages 231-245, Wiley 1996.

Edmund H. Durfee, Daniel Damouth, Marcus Huber, Thomas A. Montgomery, and Sandip Sen. “The Search for Coordination: Knowledge-Guided Abstraction and Search in a Hierarchical Behavior Space,” in C. Castelfranchi and E. Werner (eds.) Artificial Social Systems , pages 187-206, Springer-Verlag 1994.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Distributed Problem Solving,” in S. Shapiro (ed.) Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence , second edition, Wiley 1992.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving,” in A. Barr, P. Cohen, and E. Feigenbaum (eds.) The

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence , Volume IV, Addison Wesley, 1989.

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Negotiating Task Decomposition and Allocation Using Partial Global Planning,” in M. Huhns and L. Gasser (eds.) Distributed Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 2, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1989.

Keith Decker, Edmund H. Durfee, and Victor R. Lesser. “Evaluating research in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving,” in M. Huhns and L. Gasser (eds.) Distributed Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 2, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1989.

Victor R. Lesser, Jasmina Pavlin, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Approximate Processing in Real-Time Problem Solving,” in V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. Baum (eds.) Blackboard Architectures and Applications , Academic Press, 1989.

Edmund H. Durfee and Victor R. Lesser. “Planning to Meet Deadlines in a Blackboard-Based Problem Solver,” in J. A. Stankovic and K. Ramamritham (eds.) Tutorial on Hard Real-Time Systems , pages 595--608, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser, and Daniel D. Corkill. “Cooperation Through Communication in a Distributed Problem Solving Network,” Chapter 2 in M. Huhns (ed.) Distributed Artificial Intelligence , Pitman 1987. (Also appeared as chapter 7 in S. Robertson and W. Zachary (eds.), Cognition, Computing, and Cooperation , Ablex 1990.)

Major Invited Presentations:

“Cooperative Real-Time Control Plans for Resource-Limited Agents,” plenary presentation at the International Conference of Korea Intelligent Information Systems Society and the Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA-03), Seoul, South Korea, November 2003.

“Exploiting Hierarchical Representations for Efficient and Flexible Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems,” keynote presentation at the Second United Kingdom workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS-99), Bristol, UK, December 1999.

"Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy ," keynote presentation at the Second IberoAmerican Workshop on Distributed AI and MultiAgent Systems, Toledo, Spain, October 1998.

“Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well,” invited plenary presentation at the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, San Francisco, CA, June 1995.

“Distributed Problem Solving and Multiagent Systems: Commonalities, Differences, and Examples,” keynote presentation at the Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung Conference on Solving Complex Problems With Agent Systems, University of Bielefeld, Germany, February 1994.

“Robots Agree to Disagree,” radio interview on the National Science Foundation Radio Newsline , April 1993.

“Coordination as Distributed Search,” keynote presentation at the Workshop on Modeling Autonomous Agents in Multi-Agent Worlds, Viterbo, Italy, July 1992.

“What Your Computer Really Needs to Know, You Learned in Kindergarten,” invited presentation at the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, July 1992.

Selected Other Presentations:

“Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs,” presented at the University of Michigan/Sante Fe Institute Workshop on Emergence and Engineering in Complex Systems, Ann Arbor MI, November 14, 2003.

“Some Research Directions in Distributed AI and MultiAgent Systems,” presented at the DARPA-IPTO Program Development Workshop on COORDINATORS – Cognitive Assistants for Activity Coordination, Chicago IL, August 21, 2003.

“Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Some (Semi-Random) Scientific Questions and Open Problems,” presented at the AAMAS-03 Workshop on Autonomy, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003.

“Strategic Research Directions in AI: Distributed AI and Agent Systems,” presented at the AFRL/AFOSR Research on Strategic Research Directions in AI, Ithaca NY, June 26-7, 2003.

“Load Balancing and Load Reduction for Multiple Resource-Bounded Real-Time Agents,” presented at the Workshop on High-Performance, Fault-Adaptive, Large-Scale Real-Time Systems (FALSE), Vanderbilt University, November 2002.

“Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs,” presented at NTT Research Labs, Japan, August 2002.

“Automated Agents that Learn Consumer Preferences in an Information Economy,” presented at the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing (Agentlink) joint ALAD/AMEC special interest group meeting, July 2002.

“Scaling Up Agent Coordination Strategies,” presented at the AAMAS Workshop on Multiagent Problem Spaces and Architectures, July 2002.

“Concepts and Strategies for Multiagent Coordination,” presented at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, March 2002.

“Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs,” presented at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, October 2001.

“Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs,” inaugural seminar in the agents@usc seminar series, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, September 2001.

"The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Markets Society," invited presentation at the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, July 1998.

"Endogenous System-Level Learning in a Distributed Intelligent Agent Network," presented at the NSF-CONACyT Third US-Mexico Workshop on Computing, Puebla Mexico, June 1998.

"Satisfactory Coordination," invited presentation at the AAAI-98 Spring Symposium on Satisficing Models, March 1998.

“Agent Models and Model Agents,” invited keynote presentation at the AAAI96 Workshop on Agent Modeling, July 1996.

“Agent Models for Practical Coordination,” presented at Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Technion (Haifa) in March/April 1995.

“Planning for Interagent Communication: A DAI Perspective” presented at AAAI94 Workshop on Planning for Interagent Communication, July 1994.

“Intelligent Agent Infrastructures” presented at Intel, Portland OR, 6/13/94.

“Intelligent Agent Infrastructures for Supporting Collaborative Work,” invited presentation at the Scientific Computing and Automation Conference, Washington DC, October 1993.

“Distributed Search Using Abstractions,” colloquium at the Deutsches Forshungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrueken, Germany, August 1993.

“Distributed Artificial Intelligence Tools,” tutorial (with Katia Sycara) presented at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 1992 (San Jose) and July 1993 (Washington DC).

“Coordination as Distributed Search,” presented at the NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Workshop, Washington, DC, July 1993.

“Coordination and Communication among Driving Machines,” presented at the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference, Workshop on Needs for Research in Cooperative Robotics, Atlanta, GA, May 1993.

“Underlying Issues and Practical Considerations in Real-Time Planning and Control,” presented at the DARPA Workshop on Real-Time Planning, Washington, DC, February 1993.

“Any-Dimension Algorithms and Intelligent Real-Time Control,” presented at the NSF Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Workshop, College Park, MD, February 1993.

“Distributed Resource Allocation and Scheduling Problems,” presented at the NASA Space Station Freedom Scheduling Workshop, Huntsville, AL, December 1992.

“Coordination as Distributed Search,” presented at the NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Workshop, Washington, DC, June 1992.

“Coordination Among, and Through, Intelligent Computer Systems,” presented at the Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering, Morgantown, WV, April 1992.

“Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Between (and Within) Intelligent Agents,” presented at the US-Mexico Symposium on Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Xalapa, Mexico, December 1991.

“Strategies for Combining Real-Time Systems and Intelligent Systems,” presented at the AAAI Workshop on Design Principles for Real-Time, Knowledge-Based Control Systems, Anaheim, California, July 1991.

“A Hierarchical Negotiation Protocol Using Multi-Dimensional Behavior Specifications,” presented at the NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Workshop, Washington, DC, June 1991.

“Coordinating Robots Performing Time-Constrained Reconnaissance,” presented at the DARPA UGV Demo-II Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1991.

“Intelligent Coordination in Distributed Computing,” presented during an invited panel on distributed artificial intelligence at the Eleventh International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Arlington, Texas, May 1991.

“Coordination in Distributed, Real-Time AI Applications,” presented at the University of Chicago Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series, Chicago, IL, May 1990.

“Towards Intelligent Real-Time Cooperative Systems,” presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Planning in Uncertain, Unpredictable, or Changing Environments, Stanford University, March 1990.

“Flexible Coordination in Manufacturing,” presented at the IJCAI Workshop on Integrated Architectures for Manufacturing, Detroit, MI, August 1989.

“The Partial Global Planning Approach to Coordinating Distributed Problem Solvers,” presented at: the University of Pittsburgh, May 1988; the University of Michigan, April 1988; the University of Wisconsin, March 1988; Carnegie-Mellon University, March 1988; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1988; Yale University, March 1988; Harvard University, February 1988; the University of Pennsylvania, January 1988.

“Using Partial Global Plans to Coordinate Distributed Problem Solvers.” The 1987 Northeast AI Consortium Fall Meeting , Potsdam, NY, October 1987.

“Using Partial Global Plans to Coordinate Distributed Problem Solvers.” The Sixth Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix, AZ, February 1987.

Edmund H. Durfee, Victor R. Lesser and Daniel D. Corkill. “Large-Grained Parallelism in a Distributed Problem Solving Network.” The 1986 Workshop on Large-Grained Parallelism , Providence, RI, October 1986.

“Planning for Cooperation in a Distributed Problem Solving Network.” The 1986 Northeast AI Consortium Spring Meeting , Amherst, MA, March 1986.

Selected Reports and Invited Papers:

Jeffrey S. Cox and Edmund H. Durfee. “Exploiting Synergy While Maintaining Agent Autonomy.” In AAMAS-03 Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control, July 2003.

Christopher H. Brooks, Robert S. Gazzale, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge.” In AAMAS-03 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce V, July 2003.

Jeffrey S. Cox and Edmund H. Durfee. “Discovering and Exploiting Synergy Between Hierarchical Planning Agents.” In Proceedings of the AAAI 2002 Workshop on Planning With and For MultiAgent Systems, July, 2002.

Haksun Li, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin “Multiagent planning with internal resource constraints.” In Proceedings of the AAAI 2002 Workshop on Planning With and For MultiAgent Systems, July, 2002.

Dmitri A. Dolgov and Edmund H. Durfee. “Constructing Optimal Policies for Agents with Constrained Architectures.” University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report CSE-TR-476-03, April 2003.

Christopher H. Brooks and Edmund H. Durfee. “Congregating and Market Formation.” Proceedings of the AAAI 2002 Spring Symposium on Collaborative Learning Agents. March, 2002.

Haksun Li, Ella Atkins, Edmund H. Durfee and Kang Shin. “Practical State Probability Approximation for a Resource-Limited Real-Time Agent.” Working Notes of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on Planning with Resources, pages 34-42, August 2001.

Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Robert S. Gazzale, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Information bundling in a dynamic environment.” IJCAI Workshop on Economic Agents, Models, and Mechanisms, pages 52-61, August 2001.<